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Monday, June 12, 2006
  • Stokes in Love/Life at Lincoln Center (Joan Marcus)
    Stokes in Love/Life at Lincoln Center (Joan Marcus)

    Tony Awards Round-up

    Soundcheck rounds up the winners and losers at last night's Tony Awards with Time Out New York theater editor David Cote. Also, Tony-winning singer and actor Brian Stokes Mitchell performs live in the studio. One of the leading voices on Broadway he has just released the debut album on the Playbill Records label. Plus the author of a new book about the black Renaissance that took place in 1940's Los Angeles. He argues that the scene was just as influential as the Harlem Renaissance.

Tony Award Winners and Losers

Analysis of the winners and losers at Sunday's Tony Awards with Time Out New York theater editor David Cote.
» List of 2006 Tony Award Winners and Nominees
» Studio 360's interview with Sarah Jones (Tony Award Winner)
» Studio 360's interview with Sweeney Todd's Manoel Felciano (Best Supporting Actor in a Musical Nominee)
» Studio 360's interview with The Lt. of Innishmore director Wilson Milam
» Listen to Soundcheck's interview with Ben Brantley, chief theater critic of the New York Times
» Listen to Soundcheck's interview with Jersey Boys
» Sweeney Todd on Soundcheck

The Los Angeles Renaissance

R.J. Smith, the author of "The Great Black Way: L.A. in the 1940s and the Lost African-American Renaissance," explains how Los Angeles'African American cultural scene in the 1940s was just as influential as the Harlem Renaissance.

Broadway Star: Brian Stokes Mitchell

Tony-winning singer Brian Stokes Mitchell is one of the leading voices on Broadway and has just released the debut album on the Playbill Records label. He performs live in the studio.
» Brian Stokes Mitchell's Web site

The Swell Season in The Greene Space

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Joshua Bell in The Greene Space

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