 | | The 68th Annual Tony Awards
8:00 p.m. CBS Broadway stars have been biting the nails off their jazz hands all season long in anticipation of the race at this year's Tonys, hosted by Hugh Jackman for a fourth time. Many theater insiders have deemed this the most exciting and unpredictable contest in years: The big showdown for Best Musical includes a Carole King jukebox tuner and Disney's magical behemoth Aladdin, while in the acting categories TV megastars and first-time nominees Neil Patrick Harris (donning drag in Hedwig and the Angry Inch) and Bryan Cranston (playing LBJ in the presidential All the Way) are among the contenders, in addition to stage veterans Idina Menzel and Sutton Foster. And as always, it's the one night of the year when viewers get to sample the Great White Way's best theatrical offerings live from Radio City Music Hall—and from the comfort of their living rooms. —Marc Snetiker
More Tonight's Best TV | |
| | IN THEATERS THIS WEEKEND |  The Fault In Our Stars In the opening voice-over of the funny, sweet, three-hankie tearjerker The Fault in Our Stars, Shailene Woodley's terminally ill 16-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster tells the audience what kind of movie they're about to see. Or rather, what kind they're not about to see. ''I believe we have a choice in this world about how to tell sad stories,'' she says. ''On the one hand, you can sugarcoat it — nothing is too messed up that it can't be fixed with a Peter Gabriel song. I like that version as much as the next girl does.''
B – Chris Nashawaty | Edge Of Tomorrow Like Groundhog Day or Source Code, Doug Liman's Edge of Tomorrow is one of those time-loop thrillers where a reluctant hero has to relive the same events over and over, videogame-style, learning a little more each time until he can get it all right (see sidebar). It's not the most original setup, to be sure, but what makes this particular celluloid Möbius strip bend in on itself with such seamlessness is the cheeky airtight logic of Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth, and John-Henry Butterworth's script — and the stars.
B+ – Chris Nashawaty | Maleficent Maleficent, which casts Angelina Jolie — somehow made more angular and aloof — as one of the studio's great animated villains, the horned epitome of evil from 1959's Sleeping Beauty. As with other perspective-switch narratives like Grendel or Wide Sargasso Sea (or even Wicked) the film exists to fill in the cracks of the original story, giving context to a character's antagonism.
B- – Keith Staskiewicz
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