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 connecte…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:00PMFriday, 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 F…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:00PMFriday, 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 11:30AMThursday, 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 t…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AMSaturday, 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 Award…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AMSaturday, 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 sea…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AMFriday, 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 musi…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:00PMMonday, 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. Washingto…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PMSunday, 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 01:00PMWednesday, 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, inclu…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:30PMTuesday, 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 — Tony Shalhoub and Laurie Metcalf —…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:30PMMonday, 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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AMSaturday, 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 fron…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:00PMThursday, 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 nomin…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PMSaturday, 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 f…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AMFriday, 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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:00AMFriday, 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 …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:00AMMonday, 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 07:00AMFriday, 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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AMThursday, 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 …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:30PMFriday, November 10, 2017
Last year, the small and intimate musical “The Band’s Visit,” based on the 2007 independent film of the same name, opened Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company. The show, which …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:15AMSaturday, November 4, 2017
In 2013, playwright Ayad Akhtar won the Pulitzer Prize for “Disgraced,” which went on to bow on Broadway in 2014 and earn a Best Play nomination at the 2015 Tony Awards. His follow-up pl…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PMMonday, October 30, 2017
In 1988, the original production of David Henry Hwang’s groundbreaking play “M. Butterfly” earned the admiration of critics and audience, won three Tony Awards out of seven nominations…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:30AMMonday, September 25, 2017
Jake Gyllenhaal may have missed out on a chance to win a Tony Award for his performance in the recent revival of Stephen Sondheim’s masterpiece musical “Sunday in the Park With George”…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:00PMFriday, June 30, 2017
After an initial bow Off-Broadway in 1991 and a starry, Oscar-nominated movie adaptation in 1996 starring Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton, Scott McPherson’s “Marvin’s Room” has finally…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:00AMFriday, June 23, 2017
In a year in which dystopian narratives have dominated literature and television, it’s only fitting that “1984,” a stage adaptation of George Orwell’s classic novel of the same name,…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 07:30AMTuesday, June 13, 2017
In the five weeks between Tony Awards nominations being announced on May 2 and Sunday’s ceremony, the Best Actress in a Play contest has gone from predictable to nail-biter. With a overwhe…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:37PMOn the eve of the 71st Tony Awards on June 11, Gold Derby’s in-house trio of theater prognosticators — executive editor Paul Sheehan and contributing writers David Buchanan and Sam Eckma…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:37PMTuesday, June 6, 2017
In the weeks leading up to this year’s Tony Awards nominations, new drama “Sweat” seemed to be the show to beat in the Best Play category, not only because it marks the long-awaited Br…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:30PMMonday, June 5, 2017
After victories at both the Outer Critics Circle Awards and Sunday’s Drama Desk Awards, Kevin Kline appears to be the clear frontrunner for the Best Actor in a Play Tony Award for his …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:00PMWednesday, May 31, 2017
Theater veteran Johanna Day has only made four appearances on Broadway over the course of her long stage career, but she clearly has impeccable taste. Each one of Day’s outings on the Grea…
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