2019 Tony Award Nominations: Change Is Coming to Broadway—Slowly
It was a cheering Tony Award nominations day for productions bringing something different to Broadway, when “different” means playwrights and actors of color and women securing high-profile nominations. The full list of nominations is here.
The presence of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Choir Boy and Heidi Schreck’s What The Constitution Means To Me in the Best Play category was welcome. Choir Boy’s Jeremy Pope was a double nominee as lead actor in a play and featured actor in a musical (Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations).
Schreck’s brilliant, almost one-woman play about the Constitution is both a dramatically and culturally satisfying work. So, is Jez Butterworth's three-hour plus epic, The Ferryman, a dense, funny, and tense family and political drama set in 1980s Northern Ireland that deserves every award that can come its way.