Friday, 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 …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PMMonday, October 11, 2021
Ten years after making his Broadway debut as an actor in “The Book of Mormon,” Douglas Lyons just took his first bow as a playwright with “Chicken & Biscuits,” which opened at th…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:07AMFriday, October 8, 2021
Twenty years after Ruben Santiago-Hudson first brought the town of Lackawanna, New York to life Off-Broadway, his autobiographical play “Lackawanna Blues” has arrived on Broadway. The so…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:00AMMonday, October 4, 2021
In March of last year, the new musical “Six” was literally minutes away from opening on Broadway when the coronavirus pandemic halted its performance. Eighteen months later, the musical …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:00PMMonday, September 27, 2021
As our exclusive odds predicted, “Moulin Rouge!” won 10 of its 13 Tony Awards races, including the top prize, Best Musical. It also claimed the awards for Best Director (Alex Timbers), B…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:30AMSunday, September 26, 2021
Heading into Sunday night’s Tony Awards, Tom Hiddleston looked like a lock for the Best Actor in a Play award. The Emmy-nominated actor and star of Marvel movies and the “Loki” series …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:02PMOn his seventh try, Danny Burstein finally has a Tony Award. The beloved Broadway veteran claimed his career-first trophy for his featured performance in “Moulin Rouge! The Musical.” The…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:22PMThe long-delayed 74th Tony Awards was held on Sunday, September 26 in a two-part telecast staged at the Winter Garden theater. Six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald hosted a ceremony on Paramo…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:30PMBroadway has just reopened after shuttering on March 13, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. To mark the return of the rialto, the 74th annual Tonys were handed out on Sunday, September 26 at…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PMSaturday, September 25, 2021
Two decades ago Mary-Louise Parker won her first Tony Award for her enthralling performance in David Auburn’s “Proof.” Five Broadway appearances later, Parker is on the cusp of winning…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:00PMThursday, September 23, 2021
Almost 30 years after earning his first Tony Awards nomination for portraying Jackie Robinson in the musical “The First,” David Alan Grier may finally take home his first trophy. Nominat…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PMWednesday, September 22, 2021
“Slave Play” made history back in October when it received 12 Tony Awards nominations, the most ever for a play. Five of those citations recognize members of its stellar ensemble, includ…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:00PMTuesday, September 21, 2021
Five years ago, Lin Manuel-Miranda’s “Hamilton” won 11 Tony Awards, just one shy of the record held by “The Producers.” In the years since, landslide sweeps in the musical categori…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PMThursday, August 26, 2021
Almost 18 months after the last new show opened on Broadway – the musical “The Girl from the North Country,” which bowed on March 5, 2020 – the New York theatre community celebrated …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:30AMMonday, March 1, 2021
“The plays are really where it’s at in terms of races,” Sam Eckmann declares to kick off the first of our 2021 Tony Awards predictions slugfest. Though we don’t yet know the date whe…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PMSunday, February 21, 2021
When Golden Globes nominations were announced, Jane Levy beat our odds and landed a slot in the Best TV Comedy/Musical Actress category. The singing star of NBC’s musical comedy “Zoey�…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:37AMMonday, February 1, 2021
In the Golden Globes race for Best Comedy/Musical Series, a category that will most likely boast shows about a riches-to-rags family saga, Catherine the Great and a cadre of vampires, there …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:04AMSunday, January 31, 2021
Netflix’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” is slated to have a big morning when Golden Globes nominations are announced on Feb. 3, with predicted bids for Best Film Drama, Drama Actress (V…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 07:31PMTuesday, January 26, 2021
Four years ago Bryan Cranston pulled off a huge upset at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in the TV movie/limited series acting category, winning for HBO’s “All the Way.” Lightning could…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:50AMThursday, 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 hol…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:30PMWith 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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:30PMTony 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-shorten…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:15AMWednesday, 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 04:00PMFriday, 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 …
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