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More Tony Awards outrages! Where's Churchill? Marvel? 'Cat'?

May 14, 2008 |  7:36 am

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"Caryl Churchill, maybe one of the world's three best playwrights, finally makes it back to Broadway for the first time in twenty years and this is how the Tonys reward her — with a single nomination for Martha Plimpton?" cries New York mag's Vulture blog. We cry too.

Other wailings included: "Where is Marisa Tomei? Where on earth is Elizabeth Marvel? And where, oh where, is the play itself on the Best Play Revival list . . . . We can't believe that the Tonys passed up Brian Cox in 'Rock 'n' Roll' . . . . 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' –- This might be the most forehead-slapping snub of them all. The theater community has a chance to reward an all-black production of a beloved Tennessee Williams play and . . . " READ MORE

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