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Smash,” a meta TV-to-stage musical, will close on Broadway after failing to score any love at the Tony Awards. The show, which earned mixed reviews from critics, will play its final performance on June 22 after 32 previews and 84 regular performances at the Imperial Theatre.
“Smash,” the Broadway play that opened at the Imperial Theatre on April 10, has abruptly announced its final show date after struggling at the box office and suffering a 2025 Tony Awards shutout.
Smash has become the first Broadway show to close following a 2025 Tony Award shut out. The musical will play its final performance on Sunday, June 22, after 32 previews and 84 regular performances at the Imperial Theatre.
James Monroe Iglehart, Brooke Shields, and other Broadway stars address Patti LuPone New Yorker interview controversy at the Tony Awards.
The original Hamilton cast had an on-stage reunion at the 2025 Tony Awards in honor of the musical's 10th anniversary. Watch the performance.
Cole Escola, Nicole Scherzinger, Sarah Snook and Darren Criss are among the performers who took home Tony Awards in a season in which A-list Hollywood actors and veteran stage performers helped Broadway get its groove back.
"Rent," the rock musical, which won four Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1996, continues to resonate with audiences nearly 30 years later.
In a banner year at the box office, buzzy shows like "Oh, Mary!" and "Maybe Happy Ending" look nothing like the traditional idea of a typical hit.
In 2005, LaChanze played runaway slave Dessa Rose in an off-Broadway production of the same name and received an Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress.The following year she finally won the Tony after a knockout performance as Celie in the Broadway adaptation of “The Color Purple.”
Broadway caps a record-breaking season when the New York theater community bestows its annual Tony Awards during a gala ceremony on Sunday night with an array of nominees that leans into originality, diversity and artistic invention.