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    Watching the 2023 Tony Awards: What to look for and our picks for the winners

    by Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune Jun 08, 2023 4 minutes
    Wendell Pierce, left, and Sharon D. Clarke in "Death of a Salesman" at the Hudson Theatre in New York.

    Not only are the winners and losers at the 2023 Tony Awards unknown, so is the shape and content of the show. With the Writers Guild on strike, and most honorees in the theater world sympathetic to their cause, scripted matter is verboten and comic numbers, long a Tony Awards specialty, have been nixed.

    Instead, expect more songs from Broadway musicals, self-penned acceptance speeches that don’t cross the line into something scripted and maybe some unexpected improvisation. It’s live TV, after all.

    Let’s hope the bosses at the Broadway League and American Theatre Wing are smart enough to deliver some kind of blanket, we-all-support-the-writers endorsement at the start of the broadcast, ideally something witty and moving, thus freeing everyone else from

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