Tuesday, June 26, 2018
“Westworld” ended its mind-bending second season on Sunday night, June 24. Do you think star Evan Rachel Wood has what it takes to win the Emmy for Best Drama Actress after scor…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:15PMThursday, June 14, 2018
“They thought I would be a good Jesus Christ,” says John Legend about being asked to play the title role in NBC’s live production of “Jesus Christ Superstar.” …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 07:30PMMonday, June 11, 2018
“Angels in America” won Best Play Revival at the 2018 Tony Awards, and the team from the show — including director Marianne Elliott and playwright Tony Kushner — arri…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:26AMWednesday, June 6, 2018
CBS announced on June 6 that Bruce Springsteen will perform at the 2018 Tony Awards, which will be held on Sunday night, June 10, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The rock star wi…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:30PMWednesday, May 30, 2018
The 2018 Tony Awards will be handed out on Sunday night, June 10, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, and CBS has announced the first round of presenters. Uzo Aduba, Matt Bomer, Clair…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:30PMFriday, May 25, 2018
Ariana Grande released her new single “No Tears Left to Cry” on April 20, and it debuted at number-three on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. And it has stayed in the top-10 s…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:00PMMonday, May 14, 2018
Director Alex Rudzinski admits that live television is a high risk, high reward business where there are “so many things that could go wrong,” and that was no different on ̶…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:30PMWednesday, May 9, 2018
When it comes to producing live television you only have “one chance to get it right,” so “Jesus Christ Superstar” production designer Jason Ardizzone West was “…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:30PMSaturday, May 5, 2018
We’re approaching the 2018 Billboard Music Awards on Sunday, May 20, and the show has announced two more performers who will take the stage: John Legend and Kelly Clarkson. They join a…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:00PMThursday, May 3, 2018
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice “always conceived [‘Jesus Christ Superstar’] as more raw, stripped-down,” says producer Neil Meron about his approach to the rock ope…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:00PMWednesday, May 2, 2018
There are four brand new songs in the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart as two artists make big debuts: Ariana Grande enters at number-three with her new song “No Tears Lef…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:00PMTuesday, May 1, 2018
“I’m excited for the possibility of being in that rare group of people who have won all four of those awards,” says John Legend about the possibility of achieving EGOT this…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:00PMSaturday, April 28, 2018
Ben Platt and Rachel Bay Jones won the 2018 Daytime Emmy Award for Best Musical Performance in a Daytime Program. They and their co-stars from the hit Broadway musical “Dear Evan Han…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:44AMFriday, April 20, 2018
Ariana Grande has released her first new song in two years. “No Tears Left to Cry” premiered on April 19 along with a futuristic, visual effects-driven new music video directed b…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:00PMMonday, April 16, 2018
“It was really just about how you push the story forward. How does the movement help to tell the story?” says choreographer Camille A. Brown about her work on NBC’s live co…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 07:32PMWednesday, April 11, 2018
You wouldn’t expect a children’s cartoon to be in a position to win Emmys and Tonys in the same year, but the long-running Nickelodeon series “SpongeBob SquarePants” …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:00PMWednesday, April 4, 2018
NBC’s live production of “Jesus Christ Superstar” broadcast on Easter Sunday, April 1, to excellent reviews (with a current MetaCritic score of 81). In recent years these l…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:30PMTuesday, April 3, 2018
Only 12 entertainers in the history of Hollywood have won EGOT: the showbiz grand slam of Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards. NBC’s live production of “Jesus Christ Superstar…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:00PMMonday, April 2, 2018
John Legend has won an Oscar, a Tony and multiple Grammys. That means he only needs an Emmy to complete his EGOT. And he’s certainly swinging for the fences in that regard. On Easter S…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AMNBC’s live April 1 production of “Jesus Christ Superstar” came with the combined star-wattage of A-list musicians John Legend as Jesus, Sara Bareilles as Mary Magdelene and…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:30AMTuesday, February 6, 2018
Just like at the Oscars, James Ivory is way ahead in our Writers Guild Awards predictions for Best Adapted Screenplay for “Call Me by Your Name.” Based on the combined forecasts …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PMIn the entire 90-year history of the Oscars there have only been three animated films nominated for Best Picture: “Beauty and the Beast” (1991), “Up” (2009) and ̶…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:00PMMonday, January 29, 2018
James Corden is an old hand at hosting award shows, so you feel as though you’re in good hands whenever he takes the stage. Indeed, the 2018 Grammy Awards he emceed on January 28 were …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:15AMFriday, January 26, 2018
“City of Stars” from “La La Land” won the Oscar for Best Original Song in 2017, so it makes sense that it’s now the Grammy front-runner for Best Visual Media So…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:00PMMonday, January 15, 2018
“La La Land” was released in 2016, and its composer Justin Hurwitz won the Oscar for Best Original Score last year, but he wasn’t nominated at the Grammys until 2018 becau…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:00PMSaturday, January 13, 2018
It’s been a good season for “The Handmaid’s Tale.” The Hulu series became the first streaming program ever to win Best Drama Series at the Emmys last September, and s…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PMThursday, December 28, 2017
The Grammys honor a number of musical achievements in visual media (which include movies, TV programs, and even video games). Best Visual Media Compilation awards soundtrack albums that cons…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:00PMTuesday, December 26, 2017
Singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles is a Grammy nominee and a Tony nominee, and with her original song “If I Dare” from “Battle of the Sexes” (watch the lyric video abov…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PMTuesday, December 12, 2017
“Get Out” had a narrow lead for Best Film Comedy/Musical going into the Golden Globe nominations on Monday morning, December 11, but “Lady Bird” has moved way ahead n…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:30PMMonday, December 11, 2017
“All the Money in the World” surprised awards-watchers by earning three Golden Globe nominations: Best Film Drama Actress (Michelle Williams), Best Film Supporting Actor (Christo…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:16PMThursday, December 7, 2017
“City of Stars” from “La La Land” won the Oscar for Best Original Song in 2017, so it stands to reason that it would also be the Grammy frontrunner for Best Visual Me…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:00PM 
