There’s drama, and then there’s Patti LuPone.

The 76-year-old Broadway, film, and TV actor has taken center stage in a production of her own making just days before the Tony Awards 2025 , with controversy stemming from comments she made in a recent New Yorker profile . LuPone is known for her devil-may-care actions over the years (like when she snatched a cell phone from an audience member at Lincoln Center in 2015 mid-performance, or when she yelled at another theatergoer from the stage for taking pictures in 2009, or when she said in 2017 that she’d never perform for Donald Trump because “I hate the motherfucker”), but in this instance, more than 600 of her Broadway colleagues said in no uncertain terms that they did care.

LuPone, who starred opposite the now Tony-nominat

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