{"id":1015,"date":"2026-05-05T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/2026\/05\/05\/scott-rudin-receives-two-tony-nominations-in-comeback\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:30:00","slug":"scott-rudin-receives-two-tony-nominations-in-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/2026\/05\/05\/scott-rudin-receives-two-tony-nominations-in-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Rudin Receives Two Tony Nominations in Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tScott Rudin<\/a> was nominated for two <\/strong>Tony Awards Tuesday<\/a>, in a big showing for his return to the industry after being exiled roughly five years ago.<\/p>\n

\tRudin received nominations as the lead producer on the revival of Death of A Salesman,<\/em> which received nine nominations total, including for leads Laurie Metcalf, Nathan Lane and Christopher Abbott, as well as direction by Joe Mantello. The well-reviewed play is currently running at the Winter Garden Theatre and has been selling well. He also received a nomination for Little Bear Ridge Road<\/em>, which ran this fall, also starring Metcalf, and was critically acclaimed, but struggled to sell tickets. \t<\/p>\n

\tHe returns to the industry after a 2021 Hollywood Reporter<\/em> expos\u00e9 detailed multiple claims<\/a> from Rudin\u2019s former employees of bullying and behavior that included verbal abuse as well as throwing objects at staff. After the article, as well as a subsequent march on Broadway<\/a>, Rudin resigned from the Broadway League and effectively stepped away from producing for several years.<\/p>\n

\tLeading up to that moment, Rudin had been a major Broadway producer with showy musical revivals, such as The Music Man<\/em>, starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, and Hello, Dolly!,<\/em> starring Bette Midler, in addition to backing smaller, less commercial plays such as Taylor Mac\u2019s Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus<\/em> and more. He was also a Hollywood powerhouse behind such films as No Country For Old Men, Lady Bird, Uncut Gems, The Social Network <\/em>and more.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\tAfter testing the waters by helping his friend, Barry Diller, with programming for Little Island, Rudin returned to Broadway producing<\/a> this fall, with Little Bear Ridge Road<\/em>, starring Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock, and Death of A Salesman<\/em>, this spring, starring Metcalf and Nathan Lane. Both were directed by Joe Mantello. \t<\/p>\n

\tRudin also produced the off-Broadway production of Wallace Shawn\u2019s What We Did Before Our Moth Days<\/em> this spring, directed by Andre Gregory. Before coming back, Rudin told The New York Times<\/em><\/a> he had apologized to the relevant parties and had \u201cmore self-control\u201d now. However, he noted at the time that his return may not be entirely welcome.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\u201cI\u2019m going to try to come back and make some more good work, and people will feel how they feel,\u201d Rudin said at the time. \u201cAnd if some people are really angry about it, they\u2019ll have the right to be angry about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tSince then, there\u2019s been little outward pushback on Rudin\u2019s return to the industry and both Broadway productions received very positive reviews. However, in a recent interview with<\/a> The New Yorker<\/em>, Metcalf, who had worked with Rudin previously and has been a large part of his comeback, detailed the complicated situation of his return. The Chicago-based Steppenwolf Theatre Company had originally commissioned Little Bear Ridge Road<\/em>, but refused to work with Rudin to bring it to Broadway. In turn, Metcalf, a founding ensemble member of Steppenwolf, had to threaten to quit the theater<\/a> company in order to get them to release the rights to Rudin.\u00a0Mantello has since done his own interview on the topic, telling Variety<\/em> that the situation with Steppenwolf was more nuanced<\/a>, and saying he believes Rudin has taken accountability, and \u201cI believe in second chances. I know other people don\u2019t share that belief, and that\u2019s their right.\u201d \t<\/p>\n

\tAsked how she felt about Rudin coming back to Broadway, Metcalf said it was \u201ctouchy,\u201d according to The New Yorker<\/em>, before reading from her notes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\u201cHe talked about his therapy; he apologized; he owned what he said; he reflected on it,\u201d she told The New Yorker<\/em>. \u201cHe was in the process of rehabilitation. So I just think that, unless we think there is no possibility of real rehabilitation, then we shouldn\u2019t ask people to try and do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scott Rudin was nominated for two Tony Awards Tuesday, in a big showing for his return to the industry after being exiled roughly five years ago. Rudin received nominations as the lead producer on the revival of Death of A Salesman, which received nine nominations total, including for leads Laurie Metcalf, Nathan Lane and Christopher Abbott, as well as direction by Joe Mantello. The well-reviewed play is currently running at the Winter Garden Theatre and has been selling well. He also received a nomination for Little Bear Ridge Road, which ran this fall, also starring Metcalf, and was critically acclaimed, but struggled to sell tickets. He returns to the industry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[254,190,256,2,255,633,619,620,621],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-awards","category-broadway","category-hollywood","category-lifestyle","category-scott-rudin","category-theater","category-tony-awards","category-tony-awards-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}