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The 2024 Tony Award nominations have been announced. On April 30, past Tony winners [Jesse Tyler Ferguson](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/jesse-tyler-ferguson) and Renée Elise Goldsberry announced the nominations for this year's Tonys ceremony, which will take place on Sunday, June 16 at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center.

The Tony Awards celebrate the best plays and musicals of the Broadway season each year. [Thirty-five shows were...

2024 Tony Award nominees announced

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Find out which plays and musicals are nominated for 2024 Tony Awards, which will take place on June 16 at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln Center.

The 2024 Tony Award nominees have been named, celebrating the best of Broadway theatre in the 2023-24 season. Of the 35 productions eligible, [*Hell's Kitchen*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/37579-hells-kitchen-broadway) and [*Stereophonic*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/29539-stereophonic-tickets) led the nominees with 13 nods each, with [*The Outsiders*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/34093-the-outsiders) in a close second at 12 nominations.

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2024 Tony Award nominees react: Jessica Lange, Jeremy Strong, Eddie Redmayne, and more

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Read statements, updated live, from the stars, writers, directors, designers, and more from this year's Tony Award-nominated Broadway shows about being honored.

They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway, and they're no brighter than on the night of the Tony Awards each year. Broadway's biggest night is back on June 16, 2024.

There's no denying the razzamatazz of the Tony Awards, with a full, robust roster of Broadway shows up for prizes. Beloved revivals and new shows alike compete for the top prizes. 

Here's our guide to the 2024 Tony Awards, where you can find out when and how to watch, what shows are up for awards, and more. This article will...

Guide to the 2024 Tony Awards: how to watch, nominees, and more

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Learn everything you need to know about this year's Tony Awards ceremony, including how to watch, a list of nominees, eligible shows, and more.

Guide to the 2024 Tony Awards: How to watch and more | New York Theatre Guide

Here's everything you need to know about the 2024 Tony Awards, including how to watch the live broadcast, who is hosting, and which shows are up for honors.

Nominees have been named for the 2024 Drama Desk Awards, recognizing excellence in Broadway and Off-Broadway productions during the 2022-24 season. The winners will be announced on June 10.

The Off-Broadway musical *Dead Outlaw* received the most nominations with 11. The Broadway musical [*The Outsiders*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/34093-the-outsiders) followed with 9, and [*Suffs*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/24495-suffs-musical-tickets) (a Broadway musical),...

2024 Drama Desk Award nominations announced

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The Drama Desk Awards annually honor the best of Broadway and Off-Broadway theatre from the previous season, and this year's winners will be named on June 10.

He’s a pinball wizard! In [*The Who’s Tommy*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/36395-the-whos-tommy-tickets) on Broadway, that’s who young Tommy Walker becomes after a violent incident compels him to disconnect from the world and sends him on an odyssey of self-discovery and celebrity.

Broadway newcomer Ali Louis Bourzgui stars as Tommy in this revival of the show created by musician Pete Townshend and director Des McAnuff. First seen in the early 1990s, the musical is famous for songs...

Everything you need to know about 'The Who's Tommy' on Broadway

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See, feel, and hear the first revival of the multi-Tony Award-winning musical featuring iconic music from The Who's 1969 concept album of the same name.

There's no bad seat on Broadway — whether you're in the first row or the last, you're experiencing a live event that only you and your fellow audience members ever will. Of course, Broadway and Off-Broadway shows run night after night, but each performance is unique — as is every audience member's experience of it. And contrary to popular belief, you don't need to sit right up front to feel the magic.

Mezzanine seats, located higher up in the theatre, sometimes get a bad rap as "the cheap...

Your guide to mezzanine seats in Broadway theatres

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Learn more about where mezzanine seats are located, what to expect when you see a Broadway show from these seats, and how to find the best seats for you.

*Forbidden Broadway on Broadway: Merrily We Stole a Song*, a revue adapted from the long-running Forbidden Broadway parody franchise, has canceled its planned Broadway premiere. The show was set to play at the [Hayes Theater](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/hayes-theater) July to November.

Forbidden Broadway shows, which have played at small theatres across New York and the world since 1982, feature parody versions of popular Broadway songs. *Merrily We Stole a Song* was meant to...

'Forbidden Broadway' cancels Broadway run

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The first Broadway revue based on the long-running Off-Broadway parody series, which spoofs classic and modern showtunes, was set to premiere this summer.

Oh, Broadway! Following its critically acclaimed, extended run off Broadway this spring, [Cole Escola](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/cole-escola)’s [*Oh, Mary!*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/37743-oh-mary) will play a limited Broadway engagement this summer. Performances will run at the [Lyceum Theatre](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/lyceum-theatre-ny) from June 26 to September 15, with opening night on July 11.

*Oh, Mary!* is a wacky, largely...

‘Oh, Mary!’ to transfer to Broadway this summer

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The critically acclaimed play, written by and starring comedian Cole Escola, puts a humorous spin on the story of former First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln.

Every rom-com needs a great song list. In the Huey Lewis and the News jukebox musical [*The Heart of Rock and Roll*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/36584-the-heart-of-rock-and-roll), the band's hit songs from the '80s are seamlessly threaded into the lighthearted love story of coworkers Bobby (Corey Cott) and Cassandra (McKenzie Kurtz), who team up to make their dreams of success come true.

“The Power of Love,” “Stuck With You,” “If This Is It,” and more fan-favorite ear candy appears...

All the Huey Lewis songs in 'The Heart of Rock and Roll' on Broadway

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The critically acclaimed jukebox musical rom-com rocks with dozens of Huey Lewis and the News hits including "The Power of Love" and "Stuck With You."

The family's all here! Take a first look at [*Mother Play*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/31354-mother-play-on-broadway) on Broadway, a new [family drama](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatre-news/news/learn-about-all-the-family-dramas-on-broadway-this-season) starring [Jessica Lange](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatre-news/news/all-the-times-jessica-lange-did-theatre), [Jim...

See photos of Jessica Lange, Jim Parsons, Celia Keenan-Bolger in 'Mother Play'

The world-premiere family drama by Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel is currently playing on Broadway at the Hayes Theater for a limited run through June 16.

Atlantic Theater Company has set the full cast for its world-premiere musical [*Buena Vista Social Club*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/31351-buena-vista-social-club) at the [Linda Gross Theater](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/linda-gross-theater). Performances run from November 17 to December 31, with opening night on December 13.

The full *Buena Vista Social Club* cast, featuring performers from all over the world, includes Skizzo Arnedillo, Renesito Avich, Natalie Belcon, Angélica Beliard, Kenya Browne, Danaya Esperanza, Carlos Sanchez Falú, Jared Machado, Hector Juan Maisonet, Ilda Mason, Marielys Molina, Julio Monge, Leonardo Reyna, Mel Semé, Olly Sholotan, Jainardo Batista Sterling, Nancy Ticotin, and Luis Vega.

As previously announced, Saheem Ali directs the musical, which features a book by Marco Ramirez, music by Buena Vista Social Club, choreography by Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck, and music production by David Yazbek.

The creative team also includes set designer Arnulfo Maldonado, costume designer Dede Ayite, lighting designer Tyler Micoleau, sound designer Jonathan Deans, music supervisor Dean Sharenow, music director Marco Paguia, wig, hair, and makeup designer J. Jared Janas, dialect creator Rosie Berrido, vocal coach Dawn-Elin Fraser, and props designer Matt Carlin.

*Buena Vista Social Club* tells the true story of the Cuban music group of the same name. Featuring songs from the group's Grammy Award-winning self-titled album, the show dramatizes how the group's sound ignited a golden age of music in Cuba and soon became an international sensation.

Check back for information on *Buena Vista Social Club* tickets on New York Theatre Guide.

*Photo credit: The company of Buena Vista Social Club in rehearsal. (Photo by Ahron R. Foster)*

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Be among the first audiences to see *Buena Vista Social Club* at Atlantic Theater Company, the Off-Broadway powerhouse that originated Tony Award-winning hits including *Spring Awakening*, *Kimberly Akimbo*, *The Band’s Visit*, and more. Get *Buena Vista Social Club* tickets on New York Theatre Guide soon.

Inspired by the Grammy-winning 1997 album of the same name, the *Buena Vista Social Club* musical tells a story inspired by the legendary artists who recorded the soul-stirring, foot-tapping music of Cuba’s golden age. Their groundbreaking namesake album *Buena Vista Social Club* inspired an Academy Award-nominated documentary that dove into the history of this ensemble, which recruited many Cuban artists who had been retired for years to authentically recapture Latin American musical genres such as son, bolero, and danzón. 

Now, the band's music comes to vivacious life in a passionate new production directed by Tony Award nominee Saheem Ali (*Fat Ham*). He collaborates with an illustrious team that includes Marco Ramirez (who won a Drama Desk Award for *The Royale*) and choreographers Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck (who won a Tony Award for *Carousel* and choreographed Steven Spielberg's *West Side Story*). An Atlantic Theater Company favorite, David Yazbek (the Tony Award-winning composer of *The Band’s Visit*) also joins *Buena Vista Social Club* off Broadway as music producer.

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Hear the Grammy-winning eponymous album by Buena Vista Social Club come to life on stage. Discover how the pioneering music group revitalized the Cuban music scene and ushered in its Golden Age in this show that honors the vibrant, timeless sounds of the Caribbean.

The *Buena Vista Social Club* musical is named for the title band and their eponymous 1997 album that won a Grammy Award the next year. The band, formed to bring back Cuba’s golden age of music from the 1940s and 1950s, brought many musicians out of retirement to engage an aging population that knew the legends and had the expertise to expose a new generation to son, guajira, and other exciting genres.

Buena Vista Social Club was active for two decades, up until 2015. Now this musical honors the group's legacy and gives us a beat we can all groove to.

Saheem Ali, a Tony nominee for *Fat Ham*, directs this new musical, and the bookwriter is Marco Ramirez (Drama Desk Award, *The Royale*). David Yazbek, who won a Tony Award for *The Band’s Visit*, returns to the Atlantic as music producer. Dancing into New York, *Buena Vista Social Club* off Broadway furthers a long line of bold and imaginative Atlantic Theater Company productions.

## What to Watch For

- Buena Vista Social Club recorded their same-named album in just six days!
- Atlantic Theater Company is a downtown Off-Broadway theatre that has originated some of the world’s most famous musicals, including three recent Tony Award winners for Best Musical: *Spring Awakening*, *The Band’s Visit*, and *Kimberly Akimbo*. See what they produce now before the world sees it later!
- The musical brings together a renowned choreography team. Justin Peck won a Tony Award for Best Choreography for the recent revival of *Carousel*, and he also choreographed Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning *West Side Story* film. Patricia Delgado, a principal dancer with the Miami City Ballet, co-choreographs *Buena Vista Social Club* and was Peck’s associate on *West Side Story*.
- The *Buena Vista Social Club* album was preserved in the United States National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in 2022 for its cultural significance.

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The Grammy-winning, landmark Cuban album by the same-named music group is now the basis for a vibrant, celebratory musical. Relive the Golden Age of Cuban music while hearing the renaissance of genres like son, bolero, and danzón.

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Relive the Grammy-winning album by Buena Vista Social Club in a musical tribute to Cuba’s Golden Age of music. Genres like son, bolero, and danzón all come alive in this show that charts the pioneering group's impact on the music scene.

"This is not the story of a nation; this is the story of a band," music producer Juan De Marcos (Luis Vega) says at the top of *Buena Vista Social Club*. Maybe the musical isn't the story of Cuba, from where the same-named group hailed, but it is much more than the story of a band, too.

"Buena Vista Social Club" is synonymous with a lightning-in-a-bottle cultural phenomenon: the group of Cuban musicians brought together, largely post-retirement, by De Marcos and others to record an album; that Grammy Award-winning album, which ushered in a renaissance of old-school Cuban dance music; the documentary film made about them, which was named to the National Film Registry in 2020; and the physical hall where many of BVSC's musicians got their start before the Cuban Revolution set in, upending their careers and shuttering the club alongside many others like it.

That singular tale — of forgotten friendships, sounds, and struggles alike getting an unexpected and irreplicable second act — is the story of *Buena Vista Social Club*, part true, part dramatized. The resulting plot may be predictable, but the staging and music of *Buena Vista* are lush, vibrant, and celebratory.

Director Saheem Ali's production is clearly designed as a showcase for the music anyway, and that's apparent from the the opening number, "El Carretero." (All the songs are either instrumental or sung in Spanish.) The full band is front and center, and a large ensemble fluidly grooves along as though the song is a current, sweeping them up and carrying them where it desires.

That irresistible impulse to just fall into the music carries throughout the show and extends to the audience. (*Buena Vista* is actually a show that makes you want to get up and dance, especially when Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck's explosive choreography kicks into high gear, but that's frowned upon in the theatre.) But nowhere is that submission more apparent than in Omara Portuondo (a potent Natalie Venetia Belcon), who abandons a mainstream singing career with her sister ("a life we can *control*," her sister notably calls it) to remain in Cuba, even as the revolution mounts and her family leaves, and perform Cuban music at the BVSC.

Decades later, her past regrets have hardened her — she eventually did pursue a solo career and left Compay Segundo and Ibrahim Ferrer, who introduced her to the BVSC, behind — but we watch in real time as recording with the BVSC dissolves her steely shell. A highlight of the show is the number "Candela," particularly the part in which the exacting Omara dismisses the flute player — "No one ever recorded a scorching rendition of anything with a flute," she claims — but when De Marcos asks him to play anyway, sure enough, the flute notes dance atop the melody like sparks, and Omara's charmed.

*Buena Vista* leaps back and forth between this album recording in the '90s and the characters' early careers in the '50s. Ali achieves these shifts seamlessly and in a swift two hours. Some Act 2 plot points, including the rise of the Revolution, get rushed in the process, as does the musical's exploration of how colorism impacts the musicians' opportunities, particularly Ferrer's.

The ending is thus bittersweet — that in this version of Buena Vista Social Club's story, it took decades for Ferrer and others to get the recognition they deserved. But getting to hear their music live at the [Linda Gross Theater](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/linda-gross-theater) now is a unique and worthwhile treat.

[*Buena Vista Social Club* is at Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater through December 31.](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/31351-buena-vista-social-club)

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Read our four-star review of *Buena Vista Social Club*, a new musical inspired by the Cuban music group of the same name, now off Broadway through December 31.

Atlantic Theater Company’s main venue is the Linda Gross Theater. The venue is a 199-seat theatre housed within the Parish House for St. Peter’s Church in the Chelsea district of Manhattan. 

The building was constructed in 1871 and has a storied history as a space for amateur performances. It also housed art exhibitions, community classes and even functioned as a practice court for the historic New York Knickerbockers baseball team. 

Atlantic permanently moved into the venue in 1991. In 2012, the company completed an $8.6 million interior renovation to modernize the space. The three-year project received $2.4 million in city funding, with the rest being supplied by Atlantic’s Board of Directors and individual and foundation donors.

Atlantic's smaller venue is [Atlantic Stage 2](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/atlantic-stage-2), located four blocks south of the Linda Gross. 

## How to get to the Linda Gross Theater off Broadway

The Linda Gross Theater is closest to the 23rd Street subway stop on the C and E lines. The nearest bus stop is 9 Av/W 20 St. on the M11 line.

## Restaurants near the Linda Gross Theater

Popular restaurants near the Linda Gross Theater include Worthwild (American), Seamore's (seafood), Loulou (French), Bocca di Bacco (Italian), and Willow (vegan).

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