Thursday, 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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AMWednesday, June 12, 2024
“I think ‘Stereophonic’ has taken off in a really once-in-a-lifetime way within the theatre community,” shares Sam Eckmann about the show he believes is the frontrunner for Best Play…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:30PMTuesday, June 11, 2024
The 2023-2024 Broadway season, which began way back in June 2023 with the opening of the new play “Grey House,” is now in its final week as Tony Awards voting concludes before the ceremo…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:30PMFriday, June 7, 2024
“It’s helped me to trust that even on my not amazing days, or even on my greatest days, that either way, the story is being communicated,” reflects Brody Grant on how receiving a Tony …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:30PMTuesday, June 4, 2024
“I was completely shocked,” shares Justin Levine about how he felt on the morning of Tony Awards nominations when he heard his name called not once or twice but three times for his work …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:30PMWednesday, May 29, 2024
“We represent this beautiful, beautiful play and this beautiful company,” says Maryann Plunkett on how she and Dorian Harewood, her costar in the new musical “The Notebook,” feel abo…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:30PMMonday, May 27, 2024
“I was sleeping when the nominations happened because I just didn’t expect to get one,” confesses Sky Lakota-Lynch about the morning of the 2024 Tony Awards nominations. When he heard …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PMFriday, May 24, 2024
“Broadway was so not on my radar in any way,” reflects Juliana Canfield about what she was envisioning when she signed on to do the play “Stereophonic” Off-Broadway last fall. In the…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:30AMTuesday, May 21, 2024
“This show was an idea that started before I was ever nominated for any Tony,” says Kelli O’Hara about her role of Kirsten in “Days of Wine and Roses” that has earned her the eight…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:30PMMonday, May 13, 2024
“This show means the world to me for all kinds of reasons,” reflects Will Brill about “Stereophonic,” the new play on Broadway that has earned the actor his first Tony Award nominati…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:30PM“To have this recognition at the end of that journey is really quite astounding and rewarding and humbling,” reflects Brian d’Arcy James on his Tony Award nomination for “Days of Win…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:30AMThursday, May 2, 2024
Welcome to Tony Talk, a weekly column in which Gold Derby contributing theater editors David Buchanan and Sam Eckmann discuss the Tony Awards race. In the hours after the announcement of th…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:00PMAt the beginning of Act Two of “Merrily We Roll Along,” Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe, Lindsay Mendez and other ensemble members sing “It’s A Hit!,” celebrating the successful o…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PMTuesday, April 30, 2024
In a Broadway season bursting at the seams with new musicals, plays and revivals – 36 productions opened during the 2023-2024 eligibility window – it is not a surprise that the 60 Tony A…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:10AMWith the announcement of the Tony Awards nominations on April 30, we now know the shows and performers in contention for the 77th annual ceremony. The 60 members of the Tony nominating commi…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:40AMWith 36 productions eligible for this year’s Tony Awards, there were plenty of names missing when nominations were announced by Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Elise Goldsberry on Tuesday …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:00AMWhen the 77th Tony Awards nominations are announced this morning, those honored with recognition will have been selected by a small group of theatre professionals who commit to seeing each a…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:00AMSunday, April 28, 2024
A new musical, a musical revival and a new play with music will dominate the 2024 Tony Awards nominations, according to our official odds in 17 of the 26 categories. The latest revival of th…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 07:00PMThe 2023-2024 Broadway season that kicked off last June with the opening of “Grey House” featured 36 productions of new and revived musicals and plays. This staggeringly crowded year –…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:00PM“This crazy whirlwind of a season has finally come to an end,” declares Sam Eckmann as we kick off our final Tony Awards nominations predictions slugfest of 2024. We begin our conversati…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AMThursday, April 25, 2024
Welcome to Tony Talk, a weekly column in which Gold Derby contributing theater editors Sam Eckmann and David Buchanan discuss the Tony Awards race. With less than a week to go before nomina…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:00PMWednesday, April 24, 2024
“He is in a lot of ways an Everyman, but he’s an unlikely one, and that’s how I see myself, too,” shares Eli Gelb about his character Grover in the new Broadway play “Stereophonic�…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:30PM“She’s really good at honoring the original language and the original story while also sewing in the needs of today’s audience,” reflects Caleb Eberhardt on what is so unique about P…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:30AMTuesday, April 23, 2024
“When you wear these boots, you’ve got to strut,” quips Tom Pecinka about the costumes he dons to transform into 1970s rock star Peter in the new Broadway play “Stereophonic.” Thou…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:30PM“I definitely delved into some music, less to create a character, a blueprint… but more to understand who their competition might have been,” says Sarah Pidgeon on some of the preparat…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:30PM“I think it’s just the stark reality of all the things that happened to this one person and the level of clearheaded determination she had,” shares Nikki M. James of what surprised her…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:30PM“It’s really cool to get to see a show from different perspectives,” says Hannah Cruz about her unique history with the musical “Suffs.” When the show played Off-Broadway at the Pu…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:30AMSunday, April 21, 2024
“The thing that pulled me the most is the authenticity with which the writer Susie Hinton explores what it feels like to be a teenager,” reflects Danya Taymor on what resonates with her …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:00PM“I have Alzheimer’s in my family, I have a lot of it, actually, the genetic kind that tends to trickle down through generations,” shares Bekah Brunstetter about why Nicholas Sparks’ …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:00PM“I actually did see the movie before getting the script, I think it was the day before,” shares Joy Woods with a laugh, recalling the first time she experienced the 2004 film “The Note…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:00AMFriday, April 19, 2024
“What we both shared was a love for those movies we grew up with in the 80s: the John Hughes, ‘St. Elmo’s Fire,’ all the way through ‘Less Than Zero,’” remarks Gordon Greenberg…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:30PM 
