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Forbes
29-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Tituss Burgess Teams Up With Lyft To Offer Pride Weekend Discounts
Tituss Burgess, currently starring on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning comedy, Oh, Mary!, has joined forces with Lyft on a special Pride Weekend offer. Tituss Burgess Lyft Good only in the New York and San Francisco metropolitan markets, the offer features a 50% discount off rides (up to a maximum of $10 off per ride) through 11:59 p.m. ET on June 30 in New York and 11:59 p.m. PT on June 30 in San Francisco. On his Instagram account, Burgess offered his personal 'Guide to Pride.' His tips include: One: Dress the part. Two: Be as late as you need to be. Three Take care of your divas. Four: Show up and show out. Five: Always travel in style. In an interview this week with Burgess said his guide is meant to tell people how to 'know where you're going and how you're getting there, in my case, with Lyft!' He said he was personally preparing for Pride Weekend by 'giving jaw dropping performances in Oh, Mary ! and afterwards blessing as many bars as I can in NYC with my presence.' Asked why celebrating Pride is important now, Burgess said, 'Our freedom is being policed now more than ever, and it is imperative that we create community and stick together, that we lead with love and show the world what we're really made of. ' He added, 'Pride is a way of living. It's personal and political. I cannot separate the two. My every inhalation is pride. Pride is happening for me every second of every day.' New York City Pride events will culminate in a march June 29, New York City Pride's theme for 2025 - 'Rise Up: Pride in Protest' - honors the legacy of the first Pride March in 1970, which commemorated the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. The march will offer a premium, ticketed VIP experience on its grandstand, featuring a first-rate viewing spot with comfortable stadium-style seating, plus amenities such as private restrooms, complimentary food and beverages and live entertainment. San Francisco's Pride Parade will begin Sunday morning, June 29, at 10:30 a.m. on Market Street at Embarcadero Plaza. This is expected to have over 250 contingents and last around four hours. Contingents will step onto Market Street and proceed toward the Pride Celebration, ending around Market and 9th. Its theme will be 'Queer Joy is Resistance.' Burgess has succeeded Cole Escola as Mary Lincoln in Oh, Mary!
Bloomberg
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Bloomberg
Tony Winner Sam Pinkleton Never Thought
The riotously funny Oh, Mary! —a show that imagines Mary Todd Lincoln as an alcoholic and aspiring cabaret singer—won big at the Tony Awards on June 8, nabbing a best actor trophy for nonbinary comedian Cole Escola as Mary and a best director award for Sam Pinkleton. A veteran choreographer, Pinkleton was previously nominated for choreography in 2016 for Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, but Oh, Mary! is his first Broadway directing credit. The scrappy show started with a sold-out off-Broadway run at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in the West Village before transferring to the Lyceum Theatre last summer and has since broken box-office records. The wildly inventive, madcap show has been a critical and commercial smash, with talent including Tituss Burgess and Betty Gilpin donning the curly wig and black dress to play Lincoln. Star Escola is back in another limited run on Broadway, which has been extended through September. Despite Oh, Mary! 's massive success, Pinkleton says he and Escola had no inkling the production could become as big as it has.
Vogue
02-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
All the Winners at the 2025 Drama Desk Awards
This Sunday, June 1, marked the 69th Annual Drama Desk Awards, celebrating the greatest shows, actors, and creative teams across Broadway, off-Broadway, and off-off-Broadway this season. Taking the stage at NYU Skirball, in downtown Manhattan, were the ceremony's hosts, Debra Messing and Tituss Burgess (the latter, due to return to Broadway for a six-week encore engagement in Cole Escole and Sam Pinkleton's Oh, Mary! this summer), as well as a heavy-hitting lineup of presenters, including Escola, Victoria Clark, Darren Criss, Brandon Victor Dixon, Andrew Durand, Tom Francis, Jonathan Groff, Sarah Hyland, Jeremy Jordan, Jinkx Monsoon, Bebe Neuwirth, Lily Rabe, Nicole Scherzinger, and Jennifer Simard. (Adding to the evening's star power? Performances by Joshua Henry—set to star in a Broadway revival of Ragtime this fall—Norm Lewis, Lesli Margherita, and the cast of Dead Outlaw.) So, who walked away with trophies? (And will we see any repeat winners at next weekend's Tony Awards?) See all the victors at this year's Drama Desk Awards—benefitting the Entertainment Community Fund—right here. Outstanding Play WINNER: Purpose, by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Blood of the Lamb, by Arlene Hutton Deep Blue Sound, by Abe Koogler Grangeville, by Samuel D. Hunter John Proctor is the Villain, by Kimberly Belflower Liberation, by Bess Wohl Outstanding Musical WINNER: Maybe Happy Ending BOOP! The Musical Death Becomes Her Just in Time Music City Outstanding Revival of a Play WINNER: Eureka Day Garside's Career Home Wine in the Wilderness Yellow Face Outstanding Revival of a Musical WINNER: Gypsy Cats: 'The Jellicle Ball' Floyd Collins Once Upon a Mattress See What I Wanna See Sunset Blvd. Outstanding Lead Performance in a Play WINNER: Laura Donnelly, The Hills of California WINNER: Sarah Snook, The Picture of Dorian Gray Betsy Aidem, The Ask Patsy Ferran, A Streetcar Named Desire Danny J. Gomez, All of Me Doug Harris, Redeemed Patrick Keleher, Fatherland Louis McCartney, Stranger Things: The First Shadow Lily Rabe, Ghosts Jay O. Sanders, Henry IV (Theatre for a New Audience) Paul Sparks, Grangeville Olivia Washington, Wine in the Wilderness Outstanding Lead Performance in a Musical WINNER: Audra McDonald, Gypsy WINNER: Jasmine Amy Rogers, BOOP! The Musical
