Q.1
The 2015-2016 Broadway season began in May, more than a week before the Tony Awards ceremony for the 2014-2015 season.

Q.2
All of the following made Commencement speeches to graduates in May. Which is the one who said to graduating arts school students: “You made it. And you’re f---ed….The graduates from the college of nursing? They all have jobs…The accountants? They all have jobs. Where does that leave you?”

Q.3
Hamilton, the new musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda about the life and times of the Founding Father on the 10-dollar bill, has nearly swept every other theater award this month, but will win nothing at the Tonys on June 7th. *

Q.4
Which show received four Tony nominations but will close on the day of the Tony broadcast, June 7th, 2015?

Q.5
Which of the following Broadway performers has never received a Tony Award, although nominated numerous times?

Q.6
“Permission,” a play about “Christian Domestic Discipline” (i.e. spanking your wife) opened Off-Broadway in May. It is written by a playwright who has a current show on Broadway. Which show?

Q.7
Amanda Seyfried appeared naked in her New York stage debut in May

Q.8
The Civilians, which describes itself as a “New York-based theater company that creates original work derived from investigations into the world beyond the theater,” performed “The Way They Live” (about what it means to be an American) in May as the final production of its year as the first “theater in residence” at what New York City institution?

Q.9
In what was described as “virtually unprecedented in the history” of Actors Equity Association, an incumbent president was defeated in May. True or false, the new Equity president is a Broadway veteran as both a performer and producer, a licensed real estate agent, and the former Miss America.

Q.10
Taye Diggs, known for his breakout stage role in Rent, is returning to Broadway after an absence of some dozen years to star in what show, as announced in May?

Q.11
Anne Meara died in May at the age of 85. Best known as one half the comedy duo of Stiller and Meara and as Ben Stiller’s mother, she also *