Broadway 2008. Tony Awards.

Theater -Tony Awards This Year's Tony List Is Filled With Unusual Suspects By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Sara Krulwich/The New York Times A scene from "In the Heights," which received a Tony Award nomination for best musical.

The Tony nominations are in, and it would be difficult to come up with a season that presented a clearer portrait of where Broadway is headed and where it has been.

2008 Tony Award Nominations By THE NEW YORK TIMES A complete list of nominations for the 2008 Tony Awards, with links to the original New York Times reviews. List of Nominations Slide Shows: Plays Musicals

A Season With an Unpredictable Plot By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON Broadway is bracing for the Tony Awards in a year that flouted the rule book. Slide Show

The Nominated Shows

Theater Review | 'Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps' Spies, Blonde and a Guy Go North by Northwest By BEN BRANTLEY "The 39 Steps" is an absurdly enjoyable, gleefully theatrical riff on Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 film. Audio Slide Show Times Topics: Roundabout Theater Show Details

Theater Review | 'August: Osage County' Mama Doesn't Feel Well, but Everyone Else Will Feel Much Worse By CHARLES ISHERWOOD This turbo-charged tragicomedy is the most exciting new American play Broadway has seen in years. Slide Show Times Topics: Steppenwolf Theater Show Details

Theater Review | 'Boeing-Boeing' Up, Up and Away (and Watch Those Swinging Doors) By BEN BRANTLEY "Boeing-Boeing," a creaky French comedy that has been given the makeover of the season by the director Matthew Warchus, has no earthly right to be as funny as it is. Slide Show Show Details

Theater Review | 'Cry-Baby' Swivel-Hipped Rebel and Restless Virgin Meet Cute By BEN BRANTLEY "This show in search of an identity has all the saliva-stirring properties of week-old pre-chewed gum. Audio Slide Show Show Details

Theater Review | 'Grease' As Seen on TV! Danny and Sandy 4-Ever and Ever. By BEN BRANTLEY The message of this latest "Grease" is that anyone, famous or not, can star in a Broadway musical. Audio Slide Show. Show Details

Theater Review | 'Gypsy' Curtain Up! It's Patti's Turn at 'Gypsy'. By BEN BRANTLEY Patti LuPone has found her focus as a dangerously obsessed Momma Rose in a wallop-packing revival of "Gypsy." Slide Show Show Details

Theater Review | 'The Homecoming' You Can Go Home Again, but You'll Pay the Consequences. By BEN BRANTLEY As this first-rate revival makes electrifyingly clear, Harold Pinter's masterpiece is every bit as big as its reputation. Times Topics: Harold Pinter. Show Details

Theater Review | 'In the Heights' The View From Uptown: American Dreaming to a Latin Beat. By CHARLES ISHERWOOD First seen Off Broadway last year, "In the Heights" moves uptown with its considerable assets confidently in place. Audio Slide Show: Latin Beats on Broadway. Show Details

Theater Review | 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses' What Lurks Beneath the Ruffles. By BEN BRANTLEY Ben Daniels is making a sensational Broadway debut in Rufus Norris's eye-filling, very imbalanced revival of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses." Audio Slide Show. Show Details

Theater Review | 'Macbeth' Toil and Trouble Are Still Bubbling Over. By BEN BRANTLEY The Chichester Festival Theater's "Macbeth," starring Patrick Stewart and Kate Fleetwood, has moved to Broadway. Audio Slide Show: Patrick Stewart. Original Review: 'Something Wicked This Way Comes' Show Details

Theater Review | 'Passing Strange' It's a Hard Rock Life. By CHARLES ISHERWOOD "Passing Strange" is bursting at the seams with melodic songs, and it features a handful of theatrical performances to treasure. Q&A: Charles Isherwood interviews Heidi Rodewald and Stew (mp3) Show Details

Theater Review | 'Rock 'n' Roll' Going to Prague in 1968, but Not Without His Vinyl. By BEN BRANTLEY Get out your handkerchiefs, if you please, for "Rock 'n' Roll," the triumphantly sentimental new play by Tom Stoppard. Trevor Nunn talks about directing 'Rock 'n' Roll' (mp3). Times Topics: Tom Stoppard. Show Details

Theater Review | 'The Seafarer' A Devil of a Christmas. By BEN BRANTLEY One of the finest ensembles to grace a Broadway stage in years is appearing in Conor McPherson's dark and enthralling new play. Audio Slide Show. Times Topics: Conor McPherson.

Theater Review | 'South Pacific' Optimist Awash in the Tropics By BEN BRANTLEY Love blossoms fast and early in Bartlett Sher's rapturous revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific." Audio Slide Show: Being Emile Show Details

Theater Review | 'Sunday in the Park With George' Down by the Blue Purple Yellow Red Water. By BEN BRANTLEY This glorious revival uses 21st-century technology to convey the vision of a 19th-century Pointillist to truly enchanting effect. Audio Slide Show: Color and Light. Times Topics: Stephen Sondheim. Times Topics: Roundabout Theater. Show Details

Theater Review | 'Xanadu' Heaven on Wheels, and in Leg Warmers. By CHARLES ISHERWOOD This new, improved "Xanadu" is an outlandishly enjoyable stage spoof of the outrageously bad movie from 1980. Audio Slide Show. Show Details

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