Friday, May 6, 2022
Eighty years after Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Skin of Our Teeth” debuted on Broadway, the sprawling work has returned to the New York stage in a lavish production at…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:00PMTwo musical revivals will dominate the 2022 Tony Awards nominations, according to our official odds in 17 of the 25 categories. “Company” and “The Music Man” will each earn at least …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:30AMBroadway came roaring back from its long winter of coronavirus closures with 34 musicals, plays, and revivals opening in the 2021-2022 season. If that whopping number of eligible productions…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AMWednesday, May 4, 2022
Time has finally caught up with Billy Crystal, at least in terms of his age and the age of his character in “Mr. Saturday Night.” The 1992 film found the young Crystal playing decades ol…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PMTuesday, May 3, 2022
Every so often, a musical arrives on Broadway that fundamentally changes the art form. Just as rarely, a musical will take home the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, which has only happened 10 times…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AMWednesday, April 27, 2022
Two years after its premature pandemic closure, Martin McDonagh’s play “Hangmen” has slipped the proverbial noose and returned to Broadway in a plot twist you might think McDonagh wrot…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PMFor all those people who have been dying to hear the music that makes me you dance once again on a Broadway stage, “Funny Girl” has finally returned after a 58-year absence. Beanie Felds…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AMTuesday, April 26, 2022
Forty-six years after the original production of Ntozake Shange’s legendary choreopoem “for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf,” a sterling revival has…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:00PMWednesday, April 20, 2022
Twenty five years after the Off-Broadway debut of Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “How I Learned to Drive,” the contemporary American classic has at long last made its bow on…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PMIn a Broadway season teeming with exciting plays, musicals, and revivals, a dramatization of a small city council meeting may sound dull. Perhaps in the hands of a lesser playwright than Pul…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AMMonday, April 18, 2022
Over two years after its slated pre-pandemic bow, the fourth production of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo” has arrived on Broadway. The nearly 50-year-old play takes place in a junk s…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PMTuesday, April 12, 2022
Almost a decade after her Broadway debut, Emmy-winner Debra Messing has returned to the New York stage in new play “Birthday Candles,” which taps into her gifts of comedy and sentimental…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AMWednesday, April 6, 2022
The ensemble of Second Stage Theatre’s revival of “Take Me Out” has waited over two years for the first pitch of this baseball drama on Broadway, but after the lengthy pandemic delay t…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:00AMTuesday, April 5, 2022
Broadway’s mad dash to the Tony Award nominations began on April 3 with the opening of original musical “Paradise Square,” the first of 17 new productions set to bow this month. Set du…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:00PMTuesday, March 29, 2022
Twenty-five years after her last appearance on Broadway, Sarah Jessica Parker has returned to the stage in the first revival of Neil Simon’s “Plaza Suite.” For her long-awaited bow, Pa…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PMMonday, March 21, 2022
“It’s been a great season for Black playwrights,” Sam Eckmann says as he introduces Gold Derby’s first slugfest of the 2022 Tony Awards season. A whopping 20 new plays and play reviv…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AMMonday, February 14, 2022
It has been eight years since Hugh Jackman notoriously hopped his way into Radio City Music Hall to host the 68th Tony Awards and even longer since he won a Tony himself. But at long last, J…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:30AMThursday, February 3, 2022
Two weeks after the closing of her play “Clyde’s,” Lynn Nottage has opened a new jukebox musical about a star who needs no introduction. Penned by the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AMFriday, January 28, 2022
Ten days after her first Broadway show ended an acclaimed run, playwright Dominique Morisseau has just opened another. The Tony-nominee penned the libretto for musical “Ain’t Too Proud: …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AMMonday, January 17, 2022
Cary Grant back on Broadway? For five weeks this winter, the debonaire actor treaded the boards again in spirit in the form of Tony Yazbeck, who portrayed the Golden Age movie star in the mu…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:00PMSaturday, December 11, 2021
Over fifty years after its debut on Broadway in 1970, Stephen Sondheim’s genre-redefining musical “Company” has returned in a reimagined production by Tony Award-winning director Maria…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:00PMFriday, December 10, 2021
Almost thirty years after Robin Williams played “Mrs. Doubtfire” on the big screen, a musical adaptation has bowed on Broadway. The farcical plot follows divorced father Daniel, who dre…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:00AMWednesday, November 24, 2021
It has been almost five years since playwright Lynn Nottage made her Broadway debut with “Sweat” and almost 10 since Uzo Aduba last appeared on a Broadway stage. They both return, triump…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:15AMFriday, November 19, 2021
Many plays and musicals have had to wait a long year and a half to open on Broadway, with premieres delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic. But none are more overdue than Alice Childres…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:30AMThursday, November 18, 2021
Diana, Princess of Wales has been portrayed in no shortage of high profile works of fiction this past year, from her introduction on the fourth season of Netflix’s “The Crown” to Pablo…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:45AMThursday, October 28, 2021
Seventeen years after its Broadway debut, musical “Caroline, or Change” has returned in what critics describe as an “electrifying” production. The show is set in 1960s Louisiana and …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:00AMMonday, October 18, 2021
Last week, “Is This a Room” opened on Broadway to rave reviews as one half of a repertory production that also features Tony-nominee Lucas Hnath’s “Dana H.” This companion piece, o…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:00AMFriday, October 15, 2021
“The Lehman Trilogy” has had a protracted journey to Broadway. Not quite as long as the nearly two centuries of history that the play chronicles, of course, but what began in London in 2…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:00PMThursday, October 14, 2021
Back in March 2020, the Bob Dylan songbook musical “Girl From the North Country” opened on Broadway on March 5, just one week before theaters shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic. N…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:00PMBack in February, the new play “Thoughts of a Colored Man” installed its marquee at the Golden Theatre, an encouraging sign almost a year into the coronavirus pandemic that the frost on …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AMTuesday, October 12, 2021
The long-awaited reopening of Broadway has just welcomed one of its most unique offerings of the season with the debut of new drama “Is This a Room.” One of a duo of transcript plays to …
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