Is it just us, or does this season have a very chaotic energy? We learn some lessons from some very nice Canadians in Come From Away, commune with our teenage selves though Dear Evan Hansen, and keep our pennies in our pockets by seeing Hello, Bette! sans Bette. Email us at mylittletonyspodcast@gmail.com, and follow us on Twitter and Instagram (@mylittletonys) for additional content about this season’s shows!
Nordyke, Kimberly. [“'Star Trek' Star Claims Kevin Spacey Made a Pass at Him at Age 14; Spacey Apologizes, Comes Out as Gay.](www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/star-trek-star-claims-kevin-spacey-made-a-pass-at-him-at-age-14-1052828) The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Nov. 2017.
Schulman, Michael. [“The 2017 Tony Nominations: War, Peace, and Bette Midler.”](www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-tony-nominations-war-peace-and-bette-midler) The New Yorker, 10 July 2017.
Paulson, Michael. [“Tony Voters Point to Tight Races and Sure Bets.”](www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/theater/tony-voters-point-to-tight-races-and-sure-bets.html) The New York Times, 8 June 2017.
[“The Tonys 2017: Who Will Win (and Who Should).”](www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/theater/tony-award-nominations-ben-brantley-jesse-green.html) The New York Times, 11 May 2017.
Evans, Greg. [“Kevin Spacey Breaks Up Emmy's Long Romance With Tony.”](deadline.com/2018/07/emmy-award-kevin-spacey-tony-award-variety-special-live-1202425231/) Deadline, 12 July 2018.
Isherwood, Charles. [“The 71st Tony Awards Review: Charles Isherwood on Why the Awards Ceremony That Celebrates Great Theater Was So Off-Key.”](www.indiewire.com/2017/06/71-tony-awards-show-review-tonys-2017-1201840941/) IndieWire, 12 June 2017.
[“Review: Song-and-Dance Man Kevin Spacey's Tony Awards Was Sweet, Corny and Touching.”](www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-tony-awards-review-20170611-story.html) Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2017.
Paulson, Michael. [“2017 Tony Awards: 'Great Comet' Leads With 12 Nominations.”](www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/theater/tony-awards-nominations.html) The New York Times, 2 May 2017.
Brantley, Ben, and Jesse Green. [“2017 Tony Awards: Our Theater Critics Debate the Nominations.”](www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/theater/nominations-hello-dolly-dear-evan-hansen-tony-awards.html?module=inline) The New York Times, 2 May 2017.
Rooney, David. [“The 71st Annual Tony Awards: TV Review.”](www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/71st-annual-tony-awards-tv-review-1012314) The Hollywood Reporter, 12 June 2017.
Genzlinger, Neil. [“An Uneven Night for Kevin Spacey as Tonys Host.”](www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/theater/tony-awards-review-recap-kevin-spacey.html?_r=0) The New York Times, 12 June 2017.
Littleton, Cynthia. [“TV Review: 71st Annual Tony Awards.”](variety.com/2017/legit/reviews/tony-awards-2017-review-kevin-spacey-1202462176/) Variety, 12 June 2017.
Soloski, Alexis. [“House of Bad Jokes: Kevin Spacey Wins the Tony Award for Worst Host.”](www.theguardian.com/stage/theatreblog/2017/jun/12/kevin-spacey-tony-awards-host-2017) The Guardian, 12 June 2017.
Green, Jesse. [“Listening to the Best (and Worst) of Broadway.”](www.nytimes.com/2017/07/12/theater/listening-to-the-best-and-worst-of-broadway.html) The New York Times, 12 July 2017.
Paulson, Michael, and Erik Piepenburg. [“'I'm in Love With Everybody': Tony Award Nominees React.”](www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/theater/im-in-love-with-everybody-tony-award-nominees-react.html) The New York Times, 2 May 2017.
Smith, Emily. [“New York Times Critic Fired over Relationship with Scott Rudin.”](pagesix.com/2017/02/15/new-york-times-critic-fired-over-relationship-with-scott-rudin/) Page Six, 16 Feb. 2017.
Kachka, Boris. [“Why Was New York Times Theater Critic Charles Isherwood Fired?”](www.vulture.com/2017/02/why-was-times-theater-critic-charles-isherwood-fired.html) Vulture, 22 Feb. 2017.
Marks, Peter. [“'Dear Evan Hansen': Original Story, High Hopes for Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.”](www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/benj-pasek-and-justin-paul-swing-for-the-fences-with-dear-evan-hansen/2015/07/09/50f59f48-219c-11e5-aeb9-a411a84c9d55_story.html?noredirect=on) The Washington Post, 10 July 2015.
Isherwood, Charles. [“Review: In 'Dear Evan Hansen,' Teenage Angst Grows Complicated.”](www.nytimes.com/2015/08/04/theater/review-in-dear-evan-hansen-teenage-angst-grows-complicated.html) The New York Times, 3 Aug. 2015.
Isherwood, Charles. [“Review: 'Dear Evan Hansen' Puts a Twist on Teenage Angst.”](www.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/theater/review-dear-evan-hansen-puts-a-twist-on-teenage-angst.html) The New York Times, 2 May 2016.
Green, Jesse. [“Review: 'Dear Evan Hansen' Has a New Evan, and a New Balance.”](www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/theater/dear-evan-hansen-cast-change-taylor-trensch-review.html) The New York Times, 2 Mar. 2018.
Als, Hilton. [“Pop Psychology Onstage in ‘Dear Evan Hansen.’”](www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/19/pop-psychology-onstage-in-dear-evan-hansen) The New Yorker, 9 July 2019.
Lovell, Joel. [“How a 23-Year-Old With Mild Anxiety and a Charmed Life Became the Lying, Sobbing, Lovesick Toast of Broadway.”] (www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/theater/how-ben-platt-beame-the-toast-of-broadway-dear-evan-hansen-tony-awards.html?module=inline) The New York Times, 10 May 2017.
Green, Jesse. [“Review: 'Dear Evan Hansen,' With a Real Teenage Evan.”](www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/theater/dear-evan-hansen-review.html) The New York Times, 23 May 2019.
Green, Jesse. [“Theater Review: Dear Evan Hansen Could Be the Next Fun Home.”](www.vulture.com/2016/05/theater-review-dear-evan-hansen.html) Vulture, 2 May 2016.
Green, Jesse. [“Theater Review: Dear Evan Hansen Moves Uptown, and Gains Something Indefinable.”](www.vulture.com/2016/12/theater-review-dear-evan-hansen-moves-uptown.html) Vulture, 5 Dec. 2016.
Zinoman, Jason. [“The Hero of the Likely Best Musical Tony Winner Is a Lying Creep Everybody Loves.”](slate.com/culture/2017/06/the-dissembling-liar-at-the-center-of-broadway-hit-dear-evan-hansen.html) Slate Magazine, 6 June 2017.
Gans, Andrew. [“A Novel Adaptation of Dear Evan Hansen Will Be Released in October.”](www.playbill.com/article/a-novel-adaptation-of-dear-evan-hansen-will-be-released-in-october) Playbill, 19 Mar. 2018.
Alter, Alexandra. [“'Dear Evan Hansen' Goes From Stage to Page.”](www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/books/dear-evan-hansen-stage-to-book.html) The New York Times, 19 Mar. 2018.
Isherwood, Charles. [“In 'Dear Evan Hansen,' an Outsider Is Upended.”](www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/theater/in-dear-evan-hansen-an-outsider-is-upended.html) The New York Times, 27 Apr. 2016.
Busch, Anita. [“Tony Award-Winning Musical 'Dear Evan Hansen' Will Be Universal Pictures, Marc Platt Film; 'Wonder's Stephen Chbosky May Direct.”](deadline.com/2018/11/dear-evan-hansen-film-tony-award-winning-musical-wonder-stephen-chbosky-marc-platt-1202222391/) Deadline, 30 Nov. 2018.
Emmrich, Stuart. [“Young Tony Nominee of 'Dear Evan Hansen' Gets Ready for His Big Day.”](www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/fashion/dear-evan-hansen-mike-faist-tony-awards.html) The New York Times, 3 June 2017.
Isherwood, Charles. [“In 'Dear Evan Hansen,' an Outsider Is Upended.”](www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/theater/in-dear-evan-hansen-an-outsider-is-upended.html) The New York Times, 27 Apr. 2016.
Paulson, Michael. [“What It's Like to Make It in Showbiz With Your Best Friend.”](www.nytimes.com/2016/11/13/theater/benj-pasek-justin-paul-dear-evan-hansen.html) The New York Times, 10 Nov. 2016.
Cohn, Gabe. [“Broadway's Next Evan Hansen? A 16-Year-Old High School Junior.”](www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/theater/dear-evan-hansen-andrew-barth-feldman.html) The New York Times, 12 Nov. 2018.
Schulman, Michael. [“Stuck in Gander, Newfoundland.”](www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/stuck-in-gander-newfoundland) The New Yorker, 9 July 2019.
Brantley, Ben. [“Review: 'Come From Away,' a Canadian Embrace on a Grim Day.”](www.nytimes.com/2017/03/12/theater/come-from-away-review.html) The New York Times, 13 Mar. 2017.
Sankoff, Irene, and David Hein. [“Trapped in the Garden: Everything You Wanted to Know About Not Winning a Grammy.”](www.nytimes.com/2018/02/01/theater/come-from-away-sankoff-hein-grammy-awards.html) The New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018.
Paulson, Michael. [“A 9/11 Parable, Resurrected in Newfoundland.”](www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/theater/come-from-away-in-newfoundland.html) The New York Times, 31 Oct. 2016.
Krueger, Alyson. [“They Just Want to Meet the Nice People.”](www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/nyregion/they-just-want-to-meet-the-nice-people.html) The New York Times, 28 Feb. 2018.
[“COME FROM AWAY Becomes Longest Running Canadian Musical on Broadway!”](www.broadwayworld.com/article/COME-FROM-AWAY-Becomes-Longest-Running-Canadian-Musical-on-Broadway-20181021) BroadwayWorld.com, 21 Oct. 2018.
[“Review Roundup: COME FROM AWAY Lands on Broadway - All the Reviews!”](www.broadwayworld.com/article/Review-Roundup-COME-FROM-AWAY-Lands-on-Broadway-Updating-Live-20170312) BroadwayWorld.com, 12 Mar. 2017.
Paulson, Michael. [“A Broadway Musical Brings Out Canadian Soft Power.”](www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/theater/a-broadway-musical-brings-out-canadian-soft-power.html) The New York Times, 17 Mar. 2017.
Smith, Craig S. [“Has a Canadian Slur Lost Its Sting?”](www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/world/canada/has-a-canadian-slur-lost-its-sting.html) The New York Times, 2 June 2017.
Paulson, Michael. [“A Pioneering Pilot, a Broadway Show and a Life-Changing Bond.”](www.nytimes.com/2017/04/16/theater/come-from-away-jenn-colella.html) The New York Times, 16 Apr. 2017.
Lewis, Jim. [“'Plane People' From 9/11 Return to Newfoundland to Give Thanks.”](www.nytimes.com/2011/09/12/world/americas/12canada.html) The New York Times, 12 Sept. 2011.
Morrow, Martin. [“Q&A: Irene Sankoff and David Hein, Creators of the Toronto-Born Broadway Hit Come From Away.”](torontolife.com/culture/stage/qa-irene-sankoff-david-hein-creators-toronto-born-broadway-hit-come-away/) Toronto Life, 30 Mar. 2017.
Green, Jesse. [“Theater Review: Can You Make a Musical Out of Canadian Niceness?”](www.vulture.com/2017/03/theater-come-from-away-the-musical-of-canadian-niceness.html) Vulture, 12 Mar. 2017.
Billington, Michael. [“Come From Away Review – Relentless Niceness in Tale of Post-9/11 Canadian Kindness.”](www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/feb/18/come-from-away-review-phoenix-theatre-relentless-post-911-canadian-kindness) The Guardian, 18 Feb. 2019.
Armitstead, Claire. [“Come from Away Review – Surprisingly Uplifting 9/11 Musical.”](www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/apr/07/come-from-away-review-musical-9-11-phoenix) The Guardian, 7 Apr. 2019.
Croggon, Alison. [“Come From Away Review – a Feelgood 9/11 Musical? Believe the Hype.”](www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/jul/22/come-from-away-review-a-feelgood-911-musical-believe-the-hype) The Guardian, 22 July 2019.
Quinn, Dave. [“The Inspiring True 9/11 Kindness in Come from Away, the Broadway Hit Justin Trudeau and Ivanka Trump Saw Together.”](people.com/theater/the-true-story-behind-come-from-away/) PEOPLE.com, 17 Mar. 2017.
[“Stop the World! Broadway's COME FROM AWAY to Be Adapted for the Big Screen!”](www.broadwayworld.com/article/Stop-the-World-Broadways-COME-FROM-AWAY-Being-Adapted-for-the-Big-Screen-20171115) BroadwayWorld.com, 15 Nov. 2017.
Wong, Curtis M.[ “How We Wrote It: Tony Nominees David Hein & Irene Sankoff on How a Pilot and 'A Chorus Line' Inspired 'Come From Away' Anthem.”](www.billboard.com/articles/news/broadway/7825474/tony-awards-david-hein-irene-sankoff-come-from-away-interview) Billboard, 11 June 2017.
LeDonne, Rob. [“'Come From Away' Cast Reflects on Surpassing 1,000 Performances.” ](www.billboard.com/articles/news/broadway/8528243/come-from-away-broadway-interview)Billboard, 6 Sept. 2019.
Windman, Matt. [“'Come From Away' Review: 9/11-Themed Musical Means Well but Lacks Depth.”](www.amny.com/entertainment/come-from-away-review-9-11-themed-musical-means-well-but-lacks-depth-1.13248489) AmNewYork, 12 Mar. 2017.
Mandell, Jonathan, et al. [“Come From Away.”](howlround.com/come-away) HowlRound Theatre Commons.
[“Broadway Backstory: Come From Away”](www.todaytix.com/broadway-backstory/episodes/come-from-away)