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 Faye Bak…
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 lead …
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 2017 " we…
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 dyi…
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 …
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 dis…
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…
The 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…
Tony 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…
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, according to o…
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…
"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 at the …
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 ceremony o…
"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 nomina…
"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 on t…
"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 about their…
"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 that h…
"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 months …
"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 eighth Tony Awa…
"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 nomination. He h…
"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 Wine and Ro…
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 …
At 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 opening of …
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 Award…
With 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…