"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 abou…
"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' "The Not…
"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 Notebook."…
"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 about how he …
"I wrote all the lyrics to his songs down, especially the hits, and I pasted them up on my wall and I looked for key words and ideas and images almost like a storyboard as you would a movie,…
"It shines a light on the fact that anyone's life can be special and worth remembering," reflects John Cardoza about why the musical "The Notebook" resonates with him and with audiences. The…
"Dance is my language, so it was a lot of fun," expresses Lorin Latarro about working on the revival of "The Who's Tommy," which is a show told as much through the songs by Pete Townshend as…
The nominations for the 77th Tony Awards will be announced in less than three weeks, but the lay of the land is more in flux than ever with five more plays and play revivals still to open be…
"There's a ton of vitality and joy and energy on that stage every night," beams Rick Kuperman as he describes the ensemble of "The Outsiders." He and his brother Jeff Kuperman are the choreo…
The nominations for the 77th Tony Awards will be announced in less than three weeks, but the lay of the land is ever changing because seven more musicals and musical revivals will open betwe…
Welcome to Tony Talk, a weekly column in which Gold Derby contributing theater editors David Buchanan and Sam Eckmann discuss the Tony Awards race. Following the opening of new musical "The …
"I had heard the album," shares actors Ali Louis Bourzgui about "Tommy," the 1969 concept album by The Who that inspired the Broadway musical of the same name. The actor stars in the title r…
"The world has finally caught up to Tommy Walker," declares director Des McAnuff about why the time was right to revive "The Who's Tommy" on Broadway. It has been 31 years since the original…
"It's been a few minutes since I've been on Broadway," reflects Dorian Harewood about his return to the New York stage in "The Notebook" almost 50 years after his last outing. The last show …
This article contains spoilers about the 2024 Broadway production of "An Enemy of the People." There will likely be few scenes this Broadway season more harrowing than the climax of Sam Gold…
"The show is obviously a love story which I think people expect, but it's also about loss and life and how you spend your days and your time and the people with whom you do that," reflects R…
In the final two months of the 2023-2024 Broadway season, seven new plays and play revivals join a slate of 15 total dramas eligible for the 77th Tony Awards. With so many buzzy revivals and…
"It is a pretty great crop of plays this year, several that have become big commercial hits," declares Sam Eckmann about the many dramas and revivals in contention for nominations at the 77t…
It has only been 12 years since New York audiences saw a production of Henrik Ibsen's classic nineteenth-century play "An Enemy of the People." But unlike that last staging at the Manhattan …
The spring season on Broadway this year is shaping up to be one of the busiest and most tumultuous in recent memory as 11 new musicals and musical revivals are opening in the last two months…
In 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…
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…
In 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…
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 Broadway …
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 and the …