Welcome to the 2023 Tony Awards, a show with an extra jolt of electricity this time due to the Hollywood writers’ strike. The strike has left Broadway’s biggest night without a script, in a new venue far from the theater district. A total of 26 Tony Awards will be handed out Sunday for a season that had 40 new productions — 15 musicals, 24 plays and one special engagement during the first post-pandemic full season. The answers to some intriguing questions pend: Can Audra McDonald ( "Ohio State Murders" ) extend her record as the most awarded actor in Tony Awards history? ___Mark Kennedy is at http://twitter.com/KennedyTwits___For more coverage of the 2023 Tony Awards, visit https://apnews.com/hub/tony-awardsCopyright 2023 The Associated Press.

Source: The Nation June 11, 2023 14:08 UTC