Image: Angela Weiss / AFPA musical about a Black and queer author won a top prize at the Broadway awards in New York on Sunday, while a play about Lehman Brothers and a Michael Jackson biopic also triumphed at the Oscars of the theatre. The 75th Tony Awards concluded a season of renewal for the theatres of the American cultural capital, which reopened in the fall of 2021 after 18 months of closure because of COVID-19. Two of the children of the star who died in 2009 at age 50, Paris and Prince Jackson, made an appearance on stage. Before the pandemic, revenues easily exceeded $30 million (R482 million) per week and $50 million (R804 million) for the week of Christmas. This 2021-2022 season has been disrupted again, but Broadway is back in the black, with 230 000 patrons last week, compared to about 300 000 the equivalent week in 2019.

Source: New York Times June 13, 2022 08:38 UTC