Wednesday, April 16, 2025
In all of Tony Awards history, there has never once been a season in which three performers have been nominated for Best Actor in a Play for Shakespearean roles. That could very well change …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:27PMTuesday, April 15, 2025
Welcome to Tony Talk, a column in which Gold Derby contributors Sam Eckmann and David Buchanan offer Tony Awards analysis. This week, we regroup to discuss how the Broadway arrivals of…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:00PMSeventy-two years after its debut and Tony Award win for Best Play, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible has received new life on Broadway. No, not in the form of a revival — the last one in 201…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:24PMMonday, April 14, 2025
“Romeo and Juliet has featured in my life at these pivotal moments in a really funny way,” Gabby Beans smiles as she considers all the times she has crossed paths with one of Shakespeare…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:30PMNatalie Venetia Belcon’s journey with Buena Vista Social Club started long before she starred in the off-Broadway production of the new musical in 2023. Her parents, both professional musi…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AMFriday, April 11, 2025
More than a decade after it debuted on NBC, Smash has finally arrived on Broadway. Fans of the ill-fated television series that ran for two seasons may not recognize the plot of this new mus…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:52AMTuesday, April 8, 2025
At 95 years of age, an incredibly spry Betty Boop has made her Broadway debut. The iconic cartoon character introduced in 1930 has made the leap from page to stage featuring newcomer Jasmine…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:57PMWelcome to Tony Talk, a column in which Gold Derby contributors Sam Eckmann and David Buchanan offer Tony Awards analysis. Following the opening of Good Night, and Good Luck last week,…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:00PMMonday, April 7, 2025
Welcome to Tony Talk, a column in which Gold Derby contributors Sam Eckmann and David Buchanan offer Tony Awards analysis. No, your eyes do not deceive you! We are in fact discussing t…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:15PMFriday, April 4, 2025
Twenty years after bringing the story of newsman Edward R. Murrow and his efforts to thwart Sen. Joseph McCarthy and the Red Scare to the screen in Good Night, and Good Luck — a work that …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:04AMTuesday, April 1, 2025
Welcome to Tony Talk, a column in which Gold Derby contributors Sam Eckmann and David Buchanan offer Tony Awards analysis. Join us as we take you inside the Palace Theatre to discuss t…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:19PMSix new Broadway productions opened in March, inaugurating the spring season and foreshadowing the 12 additional openings to come before Tony Awards nominations are announced. See below for …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AMMonday, March 31, 2025
Welcome to Tony Talk, a column in which Gold Derby contributors Sam Eckmann and David Buchanan offer Tony Awards analysis. On the heels of The Picture of Dorian Gray's opening night, we rec…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:00AMTuesday, March 25, 2025
Welcome to Tony Talk, a column in which Gold Derby contributors David Buchanan and Sam Eckmann offer Tony Awards analysis. This week we take you inside the Hayes Theatre to discuss one of …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AMFriday, March 14, 2025
Welcome to Tony Talk, a column in which Gold Derby contributors Sam Eckmann and David Buchanan offer Tony Awards analysis. Now that more than 700 users have weighed in with their first T…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AMFriday, March 7, 2025
Welcome to Tony Talk, a column in which Gold Derby contributors Sam Eckmann and David Buchanan offer Tony Awards analysis. Before the deluge of plays and musicals set to open ahead of To…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:00AMThursday, March 6, 2025
Since Gold Derby started taking predictions for the 2025 Tony Awards nominations, hundreds of users have made their preliminary picks. This season 21 musicals and musical revivals and 21 pla…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:17PMThursday, February 6, 2025
Welcome to Tony Talk, a column in which Gold Derby contributors Sam Eckmann and David Buchanan offer Tony Awards analysis. With only three months to go until the 2025 nominations are anno…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AMSunday, 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…
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