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Broadway’s New Tony Icons: How Cole Escola, Sadie Sink and Fina Strazza Define the Theater Awards Race
The Tony Awards spotlight “Oh, Mary!” and “John Proctor Is the Villain” as Cole Escola, Sadie Sink and Fina Strazza lead a transformative Broadway season.
Among them is Harvey Fierstein, who took home actor and best play for “Torch Song Trilogy.” Escola would also become just the third openly nonbinary Tony winner, following 2023’s trailblazing wins by J. Harrison Ghee (“Some Like It Hot”) and Alex Newell (“Shucked”). Featuring “Stranger Things” breakout Sadie Sink in a blistering lead role, the play reimagines “The Crucible” through the lens of a modern-day high school classroom reckoning with trauma, power and inherited narratives. Sink’s raw, magnetic performance has drawn serious Tony buzz, placing her in the thick of a heated race against frontrunner Sarah Snook, whose work in “The Picture of Dorian Gray” has captivated critics.
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