Tuesday, March 12, 2024
We are still approximately six weeks away from learning the nominees for the 77th Tony Awards, but across the pond the finalists for the 2024 Olivier Awards were just announced. A radical ne…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PMIn the two weeks since Gold Derby launched the 2024 Tony Awards nominations predictions center, over 600 users have made their preliminary picks for which shows, performers and creatives wil…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:00PMMonday, January 29, 2024
Sixty-two years after the release of the film “Days of Wine and Roses,” the Oscar-winning movie by writer J.P. Miller and director Blake Edwards, a musical adaptation has opened on Broad…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PMTuesday, December 19, 2023
Theater has been good to Ben Platt. From his Tony Award-winning breakout performance in “Dear Evan Hansen” to the Grammy he netted for the musical’s Original Broadway Cast Recording an…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:00PMTuesday, December 12, 2023
Back in 1990, “The Little Mermaid” earned composer Alan Menken his first two Academy Awards for Original Score and Original Song for “Under the Sea.” In the years since, the storied …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:00PMMonday, October 23, 2023
In the penultimate song in Stephen Sondheim’s musical “Sunday in the Park with George,” Dot implores the artist George to “give us more to see.” The late maestro has done so himsel…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:00PMMonday, October 16, 2023
In 2022, Marianne Elliott won the Tony Award for directing a revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical “Company.” In her speech, she thanked the late composer for trusting her to put a “…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PMWednesday, October 11, 2023
What a difference 40 years makes. After opening to pans and a run of only 16 official performances in 1981, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s musical “Merrily We Roll Along” has been…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:00PMFriday, September 29, 2023
Stephen Sondheim has almost never been more popular than in the two years since his passing in November 2021. In that time, celebrated revivals of “Company,” “Into the Woods,” and �…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:00PMSunday, June 11, 2023
The 76th Tony Awards will take place on Sunday, June 11 in a two-part telecast staged at the United Palace in Washington Heights. Nominations were announced on May 2, 2023. Of the 38 eligibl…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:52AMTony Awards nominations were announced on Tuesday, May 2 by Lea Michele and Myles Frost. While the nominations for the 76th annual Tony Awards were determined by 40 theatre professionals, wi…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:49AMThursday, June 8, 2023
New musical “Kimberly Akimbo” will win the most Tony Awards, according to our official odds in all 26 categories. The latest from Tony-winning composer Jeanine Tesori and six-time Tony-n…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:00PMAfter an extraordinary season boasting 38 productions of musicals, plays, and revivals, Broadway will toast its nominees and crown new winners at the upcoming 76th annual Tony Awards. If pre…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AMThe 2023 Tony Awards race for Best Play has already made history, even before the winner will be revealed on June 11. For the first time, three Pulitzer Prize-winning dramas were nominated i…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:00AMFriday, May 26, 2023
“He’s one of the greatest comedic writers of our generation,” reflects Alex Timbers on John Mulaney, whose Netflix standup special “John Mulaney: Baby J” he directed. The two had p…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:30PMFriday, May 5, 2023
For the first time in the 76-year history of the Tony Awards, three Pulitzer Prize-winning original dramas have been nominated in the Best Play category in the same year. Only five of the 17…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PMThursday, May 4, 2023
When Jesse Green wrote in his New York Times review of this season’s revival of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” that the show had been “restored to its proper size,�…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:00PMTuesday, May 2, 2023
In a Broadway season bursting at the seams with critically-acclaimed production — 38 musicals, plays, and revivals opened during the 2022-2023 eligibility window — it is no surprise that…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:45AMWith 38 productions eligible for this year’s Tony Awards, there were plenty of names missing when nominations were announced on Tuesday morning. Among the most surprising 2023 Tony nominat…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:15AMWith the announcement of the Tony Awards nominations on May 2, we now know the shows and performers in contention for the 76th annual ceremony. The 40 members of the Tony nominating committe…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:00AMUnlike other major awards bodies, the Tony Awards decide their nominations via a committee of industry members who commit to seeing every single production that opens during the Broadway sea…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:30AMMonday, May 1, 2023
The 2022-2023 Broadway season that began way back last July with the opening of “The Kite Runner” featured a whopping 38 productions of new musicals, plays, and revivals. The incredibly …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:00PMTwo new musicals and a starry revival will dominate the 2023 Tony Awards nominations, according to our official odds in 17 of the 26 categories. “Some Like It Hot” and “Kimberly Akimbo…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PMSunday, April 30, 2023
“Out of all the Tony categories this season, this could be the most complicated,” notes Sam Eckmann about the race for the top Broadway honor of Best Play. It’s a sentiment we share ab…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AMThursday, April 6, 2023
The contest for Best Play Revival at this year’s Tony Awards is shaping up to be a true nail-biter, even in the nominations round of voting. Five of the eligible productions — “A Doll�…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:15PMWednesday, April 5, 2023
The corn is as high as an elephant’s eye in Broadway’s latest musical comedy “Shucked.” The new original show is an intentionally corny riff on classic Golden Age musicals: it sets a…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AMMonday, April 3, 2023
The top honorees at the 2023 Laurence Olivier Awards were plays that focused on cultures outside of London. “My Neighbour Totoro,” which is based on the beloved Japanese film of the same…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AMTuesday, March 28, 2023
The Tony Awards contest for the top honor of Best Play is the most crowded it has been in at least a decade. A whopping 17 new dramatic works will vie for only five slots that recognize the …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:00PMMonday, March 27, 2023
First “Company,” then “Into the Woods,” and now the demon barber of Fleet Street. In the year or so since legendary composer Stephen Sondheim’s death, Broadway has seen an increasi…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AMWednesday, March 22, 2023
In the lead-up to Tony nominations being announced on May 2, Sam Eckmann and I are predicting 10 of the Musical categories, where new breakout shows like “Kimberly Akimbo” and “Some Li…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:00AMFriday, March 10, 2023
Henrik Ibsen’s world-(in)famous play “A Doll’s House” has not been seen on Broadway in over 25 years, when Janet McTeer led a production under the direction of Anthony Page. Now, int…
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