Although a familiar face to Broadway audiences of late as an actor, Tracy Letts (he starred in a Tony-nominated revival of "All My Sons" last season) has not had one of his plays here in alm…
Even though it's early days in the 2019-2020 Broadway season, Jeremy O. Harris's new drama "Slave Play" has just emerged as the first genuine Tony Awards contender in the play categories. Af…
On Sunday nights, millions of viewers watch Brian Cox deliver a gargantuan performance as Logan Roy on HBO's Emmy-winning drama series "Succession," but eight times a week Cox steps into the…
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 connected mo…
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 Frank…
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…
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 the F…
"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 Awards. T…
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 season in…
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 musical come…
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. Washington le…
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,…
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, includi…
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 —Â Tony Shalhoub and Laurie Metcalf R…
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 "Sp…
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 frontrunne…
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 nominations…
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 first p…
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 his lif…
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 billion-…
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…
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 new…
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 Booth Th…
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 earned…
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 play, …