Thursday, October 15, 2020
In an unprecedented year for the Broadway community, the Tony Awards just gifted theatre fans with a reason to celebrate: Jeremy O. Harris' audacious and brilliant "Slave Play" now holds the…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:30PM[SHARE]With the announcement of the Tony Awards nominations on October 15, we now know the shows and performers in contention but we still don't know when the winners will be announced. The Tonys h…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:30PM[SHARE]Tony Awards nominations are always tricky to predict, but this year's shortlist of Broadway's best and brightest proves even more challenging to wrangle thanks to the coronavirus-shortened s…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Every Tony Awards nominations morning features thrilling surprises and shocking omissions, and even in a year with an unfortunately thinner slate of shows due to COVID-19, theatre fans will …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:00PM[SHARE]Friday, February 21, 2020
"West Side Story," one of the most beloved and enduring Broadway musicals of all time, has often been seen on the Great White Way since it premiered more than sixty years ago, but never quit…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 18, 2019
The Tony and Emmy-winning actress Mary-Louise Parker, who last starred on Broadway in the two-character play "Heisenberg" in 2016, returned in another two-hander play "The Sound Inside," whi…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 17, 2019
Last season, director Stephen Brackett and librettist Joe Tracz teamed up for the musical "Be More Chill," which found much favor with the teenage demographic of Broadway theatergoers. Just …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 16, 2019
In recent years, Roundabout Theatre Company has demonstrated a knack for pairing stellar actresses in revivals by acclaimed playwrights, including Annette Bening in Arthur Miller's "All My S…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 14, 2019
Although a familiar face to Broadway audiences of late as an actor, Tracy Letts (he starred in a Tony-nominated revival of "All My Sons" last season) has not had one of his plays here in alm…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Even though it's early days in the 2019-2020 Broadway season, Jeremy O. Harris's new drama "Slave Play" has just emerged as the first genuine Tony Awards contender in the play categories. Af…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 2, 2019
On Sunday nights, millions of viewers watch Brian Cox deliver a gargantuan performance as Logan Roy on HBO's Emmy-winning drama series "Succession," but eight times a week Cox steps into the…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:00PM[SHARE]Monday, September 30, 2019
This past Sunday (September 29), the Broadway production of "Sea Wall/A Life" concluded its run at the Hudson Theatre. The new play, which consists of two separate, thematically connected mo…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:00PM[SHARE]Friday, September 27, 2019
Just three years ago, French playwright Florian Zeller made a splash on the Great White Way with his play "The Father," which nabbed him a Best Play Tony nomination and earned its star Frank…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:00PM[SHARE]Friday, June 7, 2019
With only a few days remaining to fret over Tony predictions, Gold Derby contributors Sam Eckmann and David Buchanan joined up to discuss the musical categories, debating some of the biggest…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 18, 2019
Some musicals take a hellish road to the Great White Way. For "Hadestown," whose plot entwines stories from Greek mythology focused on Hades, Persephone, Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes, and the F…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 13, 2019
"It is a very competitive year for the plays," Sam Eckmann announces when he and fellow contributor David Buchanan chatted via webcam about the top Play categories at the 73rd Tony Awards. T…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 6, 2019
After her Tony Awards coronation last season for Edward Albee's "Three Tall Women," Glenda Jackson could have rested on her laurels. Instead, she returns to the Broadway stage this season in…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 15, 2019
One of Cole Porter's most popular shows, "Kiss Me, Kate," hasn't been seen on the boards of the Great White Way in nearly two decades. This season mark the return of the classic musical come…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:00PM[SHARE]Monday, November 5, 2018
Almost a decade after her Broadway debut, Kerry Washington has returned to the boards in an explosive new drama "American Son," which opened at the Booth Theatre on November 4. Washington le…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 16, 2018
Sara Bareilles has had no shortage of accomplishments over the course of her career as a singer-songwriter, earning six Grammy Award nominations and two Tony Award bids in recent years. Now,…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 12, 2018
After NBC aired its live production of "Jesus Christ Superstar" in April, one name skyrocketed onto the Emmy radar: Brandon Victor Dixon. He’s best known for his stage work, includi…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 19, 2018
The Tony Awards just toasted the best productions and performers of the past Broadway season, and in a few weeks two of the big winners there —Â Tony Shalhoub and Laurie Metcalf R…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:30PM[SHARE]Monday, June 11, 2018
On May 1, the Broadway production of "Mean Girls," based on the popular 2004 movie, earned a whopping 12 Tony nominations and became the most-nominated show of the year alongside musical "Sp…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 9, 2018
At last year's Tony Awards, the two biggest upsets of the night came in the Best Director categories. On the musical side, Christopher Ashley ("Come From Away") shocked by besting frontrunne…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 7, 2018
Last June, Laurie Metcalf won her first Tony Award for her performance in "A Doll's House, Part 2." In the past twelve months, Metcalf received Oscar, SAG, and Golden Globe Award nominations…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 2, 2018
The Tony Awards celebrating the 2017-18 Broadway season are still a week away but the derby for next year's trophies has already begun with the opening of "The Boys in the Band," the first p…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 30, 2018
Edward Albee won three Pulitzer Prizes over the course of his distinguished career, with two of those award-winning plays ("A Delicate Balance," "Seascape") bowing on Broadway during his lif…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 23, 2018
Just a day after a spring Nor'easter blew through New York City, a much more permanent ice storm began to brew on Broadway as "Frozen," the high-profile stage adaptation of Disney's billion-…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 12, 2018
Jan Maxwell, a beloved mainstay of New York City theater, died on Feb. 11 at the age of 61. Over the course of her illustrious career, in which she appeared in 13 Broadway and numerous Off-B…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 07:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 1, 2017
In a season already chock-full of starry Broadway debuts, Nov. 30 might have marked the biggest to date as Oscar-nominated Uma Thurman ("Pulp Fiction") bowed at the Hudson Theatre in the new…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 30, 2017
Only a year-and-a-half after his Broadway bow as a playwright, Steve Martin ("Bright Star") has returned to the Great White Way with a new comedy "Meteor Shower,"which opened at the Booth Th…
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