Sunday, January 19, 2025
Welcome to Tony Talk, a column in which Gold Derby contributors Sam Eckmann and David Buchanan offer Tony Awards analysis. With only four months to go until the 2025 nominations are announ…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PMMonday, December 30, 2024
In her final interview with Gold Derby just months before her death, the stage and screen star looked back at her storied career. Linda Lavin, best known for playing the title role in Alice,…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:26PMWednesday, December 11, 2024
This week, Elton John’s “Tammy Faye” musical closed on Broadway after only 24 previews and 29 regular performances. Although the show, about the rise and fall of televangelist Tammy Fa…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:06PMThursday, December 5, 2024
30 years ago Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “Sunset Boulevard” opened on Broadway, capping off a tumultuous journey from the West End which included the unceremonious replacement of its…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:51PMThursday, November 21, 2024
Over the past 10 years Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar has batted a thousand at the Tony Awards. Both of his past Broadway outings — “Disgraced” in 2014 and “Junk” in…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:01PMWednesday, October 23, 2024
Last month playwright Jez Butterworth brought his latest work, “The Hills of California,” to Broadway. The haunting family drama explores the relationships between four sisters and their…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:15AMWednesday, June 19, 2024
Welcome to Tony Talk, a column in which Gold Derby contributing theater editors Sam Eckmann and David Buchanan offer Tony Awards analysis. Even though the 2024 Tony Awards are barely in the …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AMMonday, June 17, 2024
Welcome to Tony Talk, a column in which Gold Derby contributing theater editors David Buchanan and Sam Eckmann offer Tony Awards analysis. The day after the 2024 Tony Awards, we dissect h…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:00PMSunday, June 16, 2024
Sixteen years after his Broadway debut, Daniel Radcliffe has won a Tony Award. Although Broadway fans have known all season long that the actor would likely take home the trophy for his feat…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:21PMThe 77th Tony Awards will take place on Sunday, June 16 in a two-part telecast staged at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Nominations were announced on Tu…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:30PMTony Awards nominations were announced on Tuesday, April 30 by Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Elise Goldsberry. While the nominations for the 77th annual Tony Awards were determined by appr…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PMFriday, June 14, 2024
The first Broadway revival of the late Stephen Sondheim’s infamous flop “Merrily We Roll Along” will win the most Tony Awards of any show at the upcoming 77th annual ceremony, accordin…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AMThursday, June 13, 2024
After an extraordinary season boasting 36 productions of musicals, plays, and revivals, Broadway will toast its nominees and crown new winners at the upcoming 77th annual Tony Awards. If pre…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AMWednesday, June 12, 2024
“I think ‘Stereophonic’ has taken off in a really once-in-a-lifetime way within the theatre community,” shares Sam Eckmann about the show he believes is the frontrunner for Best Play…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:30PMTuesday, June 11, 2024
The 2023-2024 Broadway season, which began way back in June 2023 with the opening of the new play “Grey House,” is now in its final week as Tony Awards voting concludes before the ceremo…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:30PMFriday, June 7, 2024
“It’s helped me to trust that even on my not amazing days, or even on my greatest days, that either way, the story is being communicated,” reflects Brody Grant on how receiving a Tony …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:30PMTuesday, June 4, 2024
“I was completely shocked,” shares Justin Levine about how he felt on the morning of Tony Awards nominations when he heard his name called not once or twice but three times for his work …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:30PMWednesday, May 29, 2024
“We represent this beautiful, beautiful play and this beautiful company,” says Maryann Plunkett on how she and Dorian Harewood, her costar in the new musical “The Notebook,” feel abo…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:30PMMonday, May 27, 2024
“I was sleeping when the nominations happened because I just didn’t expect to get one,” confesses Sky Lakota-Lynch about the morning of the 2024 Tony Awards nominations. When he heard …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PMFriday, May 24, 2024
“Broadway was so not on my radar in any way,” reflects Juliana Canfield about what she was envisioning when she signed on to do the play “Stereophonic” Off-Broadway last fall. In the…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:30AMTuesday, May 21, 2024
“This show was an idea that started before I was ever nominated for any Tony,” says Kelli O’Hara about her role of Kirsten in “Days of Wine and Roses” that has earned her the eight…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:30PMMonday, May 13, 2024
“This show means the world to me for all kinds of reasons,” reflects Will Brill about “Stereophonic,” the new play on Broadway that has earned the actor his first Tony Award nominati…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:30PM“To have this recognition at the end of that journey is really quite astounding and rewarding and humbling,” reflects Brian d’Arcy James on his Tony Award nomination for “Days of Win…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:30AMThursday, May 2, 2024
Welcome to Tony Talk, a weekly column in which Gold Derby contributing theater editors David Buchanan and Sam Eckmann discuss the Tony Awards race. In the hours after the announcement of th…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:00PMAt the beginning of Act Two of “Merrily We Roll Along,” Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe, Lindsay Mendez and other ensemble members sing “It’s A Hit!,” celebrating the successful o…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PMTuesday, April 30, 2024
In a Broadway season bursting at the seams with new musicals, plays and revivals – 36 productions opened during the 2023-2024 eligibility window – it is not a surprise that the 60 Tony A…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:10AMWith the announcement of the Tony Awards nominations on April 30, we now know the shows and performers in contention for the 77th annual ceremony. The 60 members of the Tony nominating commi…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:40AMWith 36 productions eligible for this year’s Tony Awards, there were plenty of names missing when nominations were announced by Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Elise Goldsberry on Tuesday …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:00AMWhen the 77th Tony Awards nominations are announced this morning, those honored with recognition will have been selected by a small group of theatre professionals who commit to seeing each a…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:00AMSunday, April 28, 2024
A new musical, a musical revival and a new play with music will dominate the 2024 Tony Awards nominations, according to our official odds in 17 of the 26 categories. The latest revival of th…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 07:00PMThe 2023-2024 Broadway season that kicked off last June with the opening of “Grey House” featured 36 productions of new and revived musicals and plays. This staggeringly crowded year –…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:00PM 
