"I'm not sure anyone's going to like this, it is such a big swing and such a departure from that original production," Jamie Lloyd remembers thinking about his remounting of Sunset Boulevard…
Just four days after earning a Tony Award nomination for Best Play and five more citations for its cast members, Purpose has just won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Today's announ…
Welcome to Tony Talk, a column in which Gold Derby contributors Sam Eckmann and David Buchanan offer Tony Awards analysis. Days after the 2025 Tony nominations were announc…
Within hours of the announcement of the 78th annual Tony Awards nominations, hundred of Gold Derby users made their first predictions about which productions, performers, and creatives will …
A new musical and two original plays will lead the 2025 Tony Awards nominations, according to Gold Derby's official odds in 17 categories ahead of Thursday's announcement. Death Becomes Her,…
The 2024-25 Broadway season, which kicked off last June with a revival of the play Home and concluded with the openings of musicals Dead Outlaw and Real Women Have Curves this past Sunday, f…
"When I first read The Crucible, I think it was in high school, and I was just trying to make it through the year, honestly" shares Sadie Sink with a laugh. The actress stars in the new Broa…
Welcome to Tony Talk, a column in which Gold Derby contributors Sam Eckmann and David Buchanan offer Tony Awards analysis. This week we discuss our (almost) final 2025 nomi…
"I became completely obsessed with this show as soon as I read the script," shares Julia Knitel about the new Broadway musical Dead Outlaw. The show centers on the shocking, unbelievably tru…
"It feels wonderful because you invest so much of yourself in every individual show," reflects Susan Stroman on the recognition she has received for directing the new Broadway musical Smash.…
Bernadette Peters has long been heralded as one of legendary composer Stephen Sondheim's greatest interpreters. The actress originated roles in Sunday in the Park with George and Into the Wo…
"I'm real late to the Sondheim game, sadly," Beth Leavel tells Gold Derby as she thinks back to her first memory of a Stephen Sondheim song or show. Part of her tardiness stemmed from her fa…
"It boggles my mind that this is actually happening," admits Lea Salonga about the recognition she has been receiving for her performance in Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends. Hours before join…
Last year, Broadway shining star Kara Young made Tony Awards history. Her nomination for the play Purlie Victorious was her third in as many years, as she previously received recognition for…
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 …
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…
Seventy-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 2016 st…
"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's m…
Natalie 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 musici…
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…
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…
Welcome 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 Luc…
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 …
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 ea…
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 …