The morning the Tony nominations are announced, phones start buzzing with texts and calls for the happy few who get nods. As usual, Broadway.com is thrilled to be among the callers offering congratulations and getting responses. Here are the first reactions from 2013 Tony nominees. Congrats to all!

Billy Magnussen
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The morning the Tony nominations are announced, phones start buzzing with texts and calls for the happy few who get nods. As usual, Broadway.com is thrilled to be among the callers offering congratulations and getting responses. Here are the first reactions from 2013 Tony nominees. Congrats to all!

Shalita Grant
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No one knows more about cracking a great joke than stage and screen funnyman Martin Short, so he felt right at home with the crazy hijinks of Broadway’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike on April 24. After catching a matinee of Christopher Durang’s comedy, the Tony-winning actor and his son Henry headed backstage to laugh it ...

Barry Manilow is making the rounds at some of Broadway’s most fun new shows. After visiting the flashy musical Kinky Boots, Manilow’s next outing was Christopher Durang’s acclaimed new comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Manilow dropped by the Golden Theatre on April 16 to check out the side-splitting performances by the show’s stars ...

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike scene-stealer Shalita Grant gives us a laugh-out-loud backstage tour of the Golden Theatre complete with trash, props and co-star David Hyde Pierce.

Who knows how to tickle the funny bone better than comic genius Carol Burnett? The Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actress has done it all. From her Broadway debut as Princess Winnifred the Woebegone in Once Upon a Mattress in 1959 to her long-running self-titled variety show to her performances in the films Annie and Noises Off, Burnett has never ...

Theater stars know what’s hot in entertainment, fashion and pop culture, so Broadway.com decided it was high time to tap in to the after-hours obsessions of our favorite stage actors. Billy Magnussen currently stars in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike as Sigourney Weaver's onstage boy-toy, Spike. When this Broadway hunk isn't stripping down at ...

Sigourney Weaver is back on the boards as a “deeply shallow” movie star facing a mid-life crisis in Christopher Durang’s acclaimed comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. The Tony and Oscar nominee dropped by The Colbert Report on April 1 for a fun but in-depth interview that covers everything from why a big Oscar-nominated film star is ...

Tony and Emmy winner David Hyde Pierce, currently starring in Broadway’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, will host the 79th annual Drama League Awards at New York’s Marriot Marquis on May 17. This year’s awards will honor Tony winners Bernadette Peters and Jerry Mitchell, Madison Square Garden Entertainment and the Radio City Rockettes.

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Sigourney Weaver, David Hyde Pierce and Kristine Nielsen are back on the boards in Christopher Durang’s whimsical comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. When movie star Masha (Weaver) and her hot boy toy Spike (Billy Magnussen) drop in on Masha’s two sad, middle-aged siblings (Pierce and Nielsen), everyone’s lives are thrown into a tailspin. The ...