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USA Today
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Summerfest 2025: Set times, daily schedule, ticket costs, lineup
Summerfest 2025: Set times, daily schedule, ticket costs, lineup Show Caption Hide Caption Tony Awards: James Monroe Iglehart admires Louis Armstrong's legacy Broadway star James Monroe Iglehart admires Louis Armstrong's legacy and the state of Broadway this year. Live music and vibes will take over Milwaukee this week. Summerfest is here, taking place from June 19 to June 21, to kick off the first weekend of the massive event. Here's what you need to know about Summerfest, including the full lineup, set times, and ticket costs. B-52s, Devo announce tour: Dates, cities, how to get tickets Where is Summerfest? Summerfest is set in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The festival will take place on three weekends: June 19-21, June 26-28, and July 3-5. Summerfest 2025 Ticket Prices UScellular 9-Day Power Pass: $130.00 UScellular 3-Day Pass: $63.00 General Admission: $30.00 Festivalgoers must purchase separate tickets to attend the shows at the American Family Insurance Amphitheater. However, tickets to the amphitheater, which can be found on Ticketmaster, include same-day gate admission to Summerfest. Summerfest 2025 lineup Thursday, June 19: Def Leppard and Tesla are slated to headline at the American Family Insurance Amphitheater. Festival stage performers include The Isley Brothers, Gary Clark Jr., Eric Benét, Aly & AJ, Ginuwine, DJ Kenny Perez & Friends, Fabolous, Natasha Bedingfield, Bow Wow, and Mike Jones. Friday, June 20: Hozier is scheduled to perform at the American Family Insurance Amphitheater, along with Gigi Perez. Other acts hitting the festival stages are George Thorogood & the Destroyers, The Head and The Heart, Dispatch, Muscadine Bloodline, Mike Posner, and Rick Springfield. Saturday, June 21: James Taylor, along with Tiny Habits and Jason Mraz, will headline at the American Family Insurance Amphitheater. Artists performing on the festival stages include Japanese Breakfast, Yung Gravy, Matt Maltese, Artemas, iann dior, Eric Bellinger, GROOVY, Billy Currington, and Lindsey Stirling. Summerfest set times A complete list of day-by-day set times can be found on Summerfest's website or in an Instagram post below: Taylor Ardrey is a news reporter for USA TODAY. You can reach her at tardrey@
Yahoo
08-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Tonight is the Tony Awards: What you need to know
With the Tony Awards celebrating their 78th year, Broadway will be bringing the sights and sounds of this year's wonderful productions to people watching at home. Elphaba herself, Cynthia Erivo, will be hosting this year's 78th Annual Tony Awards. Erivo won her first Tony for her role as Celie in "The Color Purple" in 2016 and was nominated in 2023 for the play "Fat Ham." The 78th Annual Tony Awards will be broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall at 8 pm. to 11 p.m. EST. People can tune in to CBS or stream the awards show on Paramount+. Those watching the Tonys can expect a great number of performances from new musicals and revivals. The original Broadway cast of "Hamilton" will unite to celebrate the show's 10th anniversary. Other performances are from shows "Buena Vista Social Club," "Dead Outlaw," "Death Becomes Her," "Floyd Collins," "Gypsy," "Maybe Happy Ending," "Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical," "Pirates! The Penzance Musical," "Sunset Boulevard," "Just In Time," and "Real Women Have Curves" and an appearance by the 2019 Tony Honor Recipient Broadway Inspirational Voices. Nominees include some major Broadway stars, including James Monroe Iglehart, Jeremy Jordan, Audra McDonald and Megan Hilty. But other well-known people will are nominated, including George Clooney for his role in "Good Night, Good Luck," Daniel Dae Kim for his role in "Yellow Face" and Nicole Scherzinger, of the Pussy Cat Dolls, for her role in "Sunset Boulevard." Nominations for Best Musical are "Buena Vista Social Club," "Dead Outlaw," "Death Becomes Her," "Maybe Happy Ending" and "Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical." Nominations for Best Revival are "Floyd Collins," "Gypsy," "Pirates! The Penzance Musical," and "Sunset Boulevard." The Tony Awards are named after Antoinette Perry, founder of the American Theatre Wing, which established the awards in 1947. Perry was an actress, director, and producer born in 1888 in Denver, Colorado. She spent her younger years "aspiring to replicate the thespian artistry of her aunt and uncle, Mildred Hall and George Wessels, both of whom were well-respected touring actors," the website said. At the age of 15, she joined her uncle's touring company, but left in 1905 to join the cast of "The Music Master" in New York City. She later provided money to actors and playwrights who had overdue hotel bills, supported productions, and began directing shows. She helped lead the theater community through World War II, co-founding the Theater Wing of Allied Relief, which turned into the American Theater Wing. It staged the Stage Door Canteen in the basement of the former 44th Street Theatre, and stars worked as dishwashers, waiters, waitresses and entertainers for members of the armed forces. "Perry was also president of the National Experimental Theatre and financed, with Actors' Equity Association and the Dramatists Guild, the work of new playwrights," the site said. "During and after the war, she underwrote auditions for 7,000 hopefuls. Her dream of a national actor's school was realized in 1946." She passed away at the age of 57 in 1946. This article originally appeared on Tony Awards 2025: Who is nominated, how to watch, what time
The Herald Scotland
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
Death Becomes Her and Maybe Happy Ending lead Tony Award nominations
James Monroe Iglehart, who played Armstrong in his musical, wasn't expecting the nomination and woke to his phone blowing up. 'I was like, 'What's going on? Is everything OK?' And then I was, 'OK! How cool is that?' he said. 'I'm just really excited to be a part of this crop of amazing performers.' Buena Vista Social Club, which takes its inspiration from Wim Wenders's 1999 Oscar-nominated documentary on the making of the album of the same name, will face off for best musical crown with Death Becomes Her, based on the 1992 cult classic film about frenemeies who seek a magic eternal youth and beauty potion. The category also includes Maybe Happy Ending, a rom-com musical about a pair of androids that crackle with humanity, and Dead Outlaw, a musical about a real life alcoholic drifter who was shot dead in 1911 and whose afterlife proved to be stranger than fiction as he was displayed at carnivals for decades. A second show with a corpse, the British import Operation Mincemeat, also made it, the improbably true story about a British deception operation designed to mislead Nazi Germany about the location of the Allied landing at Sicily. Buena Vista Social Club has also earned 10 nominations at this year's Tony Awards (Matthew Murphy/Polk & Co. via AP) 'What I think is so cool about this year is that the shows are so widely different and I love that for Broadway,' says Christopher Gattelli, the choreographer and first-time director of Death Becomes Her, who earned nods for both jobs. 'We have chamber pieces and really small intimate shows and these wildly funny black box shows, and so, I love that it's been such a great scope of a year. I love that we get to add to that mix.' Dead Outlaw — conceived by David Yazbek, who wrote the music and lyrics with Erik Della Penna — reunites Yazbek with book writer Itamar Moses and the director David Cromer, who collaborated so winningly on the Tony-winning The Band's Visit. Yazbek said that the team learned a lesson with that show that they applied to Dead Outlaw. 'If you make the thing you want to make and make it true to itself and leave the rest of it up to the fates, then you might actually get the reception that you want. And so we sort of stuck to that approach,' he said. In the best play category, English, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sanaz Toossi's look at four Iranian students preparing for an English language exam, made the cut. Audra McDonald has received a nod for her portrayal of Rose in the Broadway musical Gypsy (Julieta Cervantes via AP) As did The Hills Of California, Jez Butterworth's look at a family gathering for the impending death of its matriarch, set in a hotel in the summer of 1976 in England. They will compete with John Proctor Is The Villain, Kimberly Belflower's examination of girlhood, feminism, the #MeToo movement and a compelling rebuttal to The Crucible, and Purpose, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's drawing-room drama about an accomplished Black family destroying itself from within. The category is completed with Oh, Mary!, an irreverent, raunchy, gleefully deranged revisionist history by Cole Escola centred on Mary Todd Lincoln, a boozy, narcissistic, potty-mouthed first lady determined to strike out of the subordinate role into which history has placed her. Jacobs-Jenkins, whose Appropriate, won best play revival last year, said that his category was filled with plays that started regionally or off-Broadway, showing the art's strength. 'I hope people kind of see the diversity of what's happening in terms of writing for the American stages right now. It's really an amazing time,' he said. 'I think that's just the testament to how fruitful the form is.' George Clooney received a nod for his leading role in Good Night, and Good Luck (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File) Audra McDonald, as expected, heard her name called for her turn as Rose in a hailed revival of Gypsy, a role that led to previous Tonys for the likes of Angela Lansbury, Tyne Daly and Patti LuPone. McDonald, already a holder of the most Tonys by a performer with six, now vies for a seventh. She will face off against Nicole Scherzinger in Sunset Blvd, Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard in Death Becomes Her, and Jasmine Amy Rogers from Boop! The Musical. Clooney got a nod as a leading actor in a play for his retelling the story of legendary reporter Edward R Murrow in an adaptation of his 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck. Another hot ticket — a revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross earned Odenkirk a nod, but not for his co-stars Kieran Culkin or comedian Bill Burr. Snook, Culkin's Succession co-star, earned a nomination for playing all 26 parts in The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Stranger Things star Sadie Sink earned one for leading John Proctor Is the Villain. Stranger Things: The First Shadow, an effects-driven prequel to the Netflix hit show, earned five nods, including for lead actor Louis McCartney. Oh, Mary! earned a nod in the best play category (Emilio Madrid via AP) The news was less good for Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler, both in their Broadway debuts. Neither got nominations for their Romeo + Juliet, pitched to Generation X and millennials. Robert Downey Jr, who also made his Broadway debut in the play McNeal, also wasn't recognised. Mia Farrow earned a nomination for The Roommate, but her co-star, the Broadway diva Patti LuPone, did not. And, in a shock, an edgy Othello with Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal that producers are charging north of 900 dollars for orchestra seats, got not a single nomination. Idina Menzel's return to Broadway in Redwood, a contemporary fable about trees, grief and the quest for healing, also got no nominations. Our Town, starring Jim Parsons and Katie Holmes, earned a best play revival Tony nomination, but nothing for its actors. And the Stephen Sondheim revue starring Tony Award-winners Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga came up blank. The Tony Awards will be handed out June 8 at Radio City Music Hall during a telecast hosted by Wicked star and Tony winner Cynthia Erivo.
