Perspective: A writers strike and an off-year financially have made this a season of nervous hits for Broadway and the Tony Awards.
The under-the-wire strategy paid off: In a crowded season, the production garnered two Tony nominations, including one for best play revival. But it also underscored how make-or-break the awards can be for a new show. This is particularly urgent for a little-known, limited-engagement drama like Lorraine Hansberry’s “Sidney Brustein,” trying to drum up business during the theater industry’s daunting post-covid period.
“I wanted to recognize that sensibility by bringing this to Broadway,” Jeremy O. Harris, one of “Sidney Brustein’s” producers, said of Hansberry’s impact as an artist, “so that people would see that this is actually one of the seminal masterpieces of American literature.”The success of that aspiration, as with many other worthy yet struggling productions this season, may hinge in part on the unusually thorny evening Broadway and CBS are confronting for the.
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