DARREN CRISS

Jackson also won for best book. “A Strange Loop” beat “MJ,” a bio musical of the King of Pop’s biggest hits, for the top prize, although the other Jackson musical nabbed four Tony Awards including for best choreography. Patti LuPone won best featured actress in a musical for her work in the revival, thanking COVID-19 safety officials in her acceptance speech. And the Tonys ushered in the latest EGOT winner: Jennifer Hudson, who has an Emmy, Grammy and Oscar, and joined that elite group Sunday when “A Strange Loop” won best musical — she’s a producer. The season — with 34 new productions — represents a full return to theaters after nearly two years of a pandemic-mandated shutdown.

Host Ariana DeBose kicked off the first regularly scheduled Tony Awards since 2019 with an opening number that mashed up musical theater classics and a monologue about inclusivity on Broadway.

“A Strange Loop,” an utterly unforgettable, idiosyncratic trip into one man’s psyche, has won the best new musical Tony Award, beating more commercial fare.

“A Strange Loop,” an irreverent, sexually frank work about Blackness and queerness took home the best new musical crown at the Tony Awards on Sunday, as voters celebrated Broadway’s most racially diverse season by choosing an envelope-pushing Black voice.

The “Cowboy Bebop” actor’s glam-rock radiance shows the high-octane musical in a new light.

Growing up in Chicago, Broadway star Brittney Mack faithfully watched the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on TV after fulfilling her own parade duties.

Enjoy some of Queen’s most beloved hits in “The Queen Family Singalong” tonight at 8/7c on ABC. “The Queen Family Singalong” is the next installment of ABC’s Singalong series. Where to watchYou can watch “The Queen Family Singalong” for free when you register for FuboTV (7-day free trial). You don’t want to miss “The Queen Family Singalong” tonight at 8/7c on ABC. ABC has announced ‘The Queen Family Singalong,’ the fourth installment of its successful ‘Singalong’ franchise, with Emmy® Award-winning actor and singer-songwriter Darren Criss set to host, airing THURSDAY NOV 4 8/7c.

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will return to its pre-pandemic form this year, with its route restored through Manhattan, high-flying helium balloons once again pulled by handlers and crowds welcomed back to cheer them on.

Prices for standard tickets to the Dec. 4 event in Ann Arbor start at $29.

A revival of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo” with Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell and Darren Criss was in rehearsal when the pandemic closed Broadway theaters.

NEW YORK Naya Rivera, a singer and actress who played a gay cheerleader on the hit TV musical comedy Glee, was found dead Monday in a Southern California lake. What a force you were, wrote Glee co-star Jane Lynch on Twitter. She is survived by her parents, Yolanda and George; a younger brother, Mychal; a sister, Nickayla; and her 4-year-old son. Naya Rivera was a fierce talent with so much more to do and this is such a terrible tragedy. In the preface to her autobiography, Rivera wrote that motherhood had changed her life and given it perspective.