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Chris Perfetti says the theater is “home” for him, so it’s no surprise he’s been in his element for “King James,” the Manhattan Theater Club production that closes Sunday.

The intimate, funny-sad musical “Kimberly Akimbo” nudged aside more splashier rivals on Sunday to win the best new musical crown at the Tony Awards on a night when Broadway flexed its muscle in the face of Hollywood writers’ strike and fully embraced trans-rights with history-making winners.

The newly restored Cort Theatre on Broadway has been renamed after James Earl Jones, becoming the second theater on the Great White Way named after a Black artist.

In Chloé Zhao’s “Eternals,” Ridloff plays the first deaf superhero in Marvel’s “cinematic universe.”.

Audra McDonald is going from host of the Tony Awards to another stage role.

Kerry Washington is bringing her tense and emotional Broadway play, American Son, to Netflix. As Kendra tells her husband in the American Son trailer, "The world still looks at him like it looks at me." See more about the film adaptation of the Broadway play in the video below. American Son premieres on Netflix on Nov. 1. RELATED CONTENT:First Look at Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington in 'Little Fires Everywhere'Kerry Washington Talks Her Return to Broadway in 'American Son' (Exclusive)Met Gala 2019: Kerry Washington and Husband Nnamdi Asomugha Make Rare Appearance