311 stories by "David Buchanan"
"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 …
Back in 1990, "The Little Mermaid" earned composer Alan Menken his first two Academy Awards for Original Score and Original Song for "Under the Sea." In the years since, the storied songwrit…
In the penultimate song in Stephen Sondheim's musical "Sunday in the Park with George," Dot implores the artist George to "give us more to see." The late maestro has done so himself one last…
In 2022, Marianne Elliott won the Tony Award for directing a revival of the Stephen Sondheim musical "Company." In her speech, she thanked the late composer for trusting her to put a "woman …
What a difference 40 years makes. After opening to pans and a run of only 16 official performances in 1981, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical "Merrily We Roll Along" has been remou…
Stephen Sondheim has almost never been more popular than in the two years since his passing in November 2021. In that time, celebrated revivals of "Company," "Into the Woods," and "Sweeney T…
The 76th Tony Awards will take place on Sunday, June 11 in a two-part telecast staged at the United Palace in Washington Heights. Nominations were announced on May 2, 2023. Of the 38 eligibl…
Tony Awards nominations were announced on Tuesday, May 2 by Lea Michele and Myles Frost. While the nominations for the 76th annual Tony Awards were determined by 40 theatre professionals, wi…
New musical "Kimberly Akimbo" will win the most Tony Awards, according to our official odds in all 26 categories. The latest from Tony-winning composer Jeanine Tesori and six-time Tony-nomin…
After an extraordinary season boasting 38 productions of musicals, plays, and revivals, Broadway will toast its nominees and crown new winners at the upcoming 76th annual Tony Awards. If pre…
The 2023 Tony Awards race for Best Play has already made history, even before the winner will be revealed on June 11. For the first time, three Pulitzer Prize-winning dramas were nominated i…
"He's one of the greatest comedic writers of our generation," reflects Alex Timbers on John Mulaney, whose Netflix standup special "John Mulaney: Baby J" he directed. The two had previously …
For the first time in the 76-year history of the Tony Awards, three Pulitzer Prize-winning original dramas have been nominated in the Best Play category in the same year. Only five of the 17…
When Jesse Green wrote in his New York Times review of this season's revival of "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" that the show had been "restored to its proper size," he mean…