311 stories by "David Buchanan"
In the last few days of every Tony Awards season, prognosticators have the tendency to overthink some races that are likely done deals. That could be the case this year with the Featured Act…
The Best Original Score prize is always one of the most coveted prizes at the Tony Awards. This year, the race is also one of the most competitive, pitting Michael R. Jackson's music and lyr…
Director Marianne Elliott's reimagining of Stephen Sondheim's legendary musical "Company" will win the most Tony Awards, according to our official odds in all 26 categories. The contemporary…
After an extraordinary season boasting 34 musicals, plays, and revivals, Broadway will toast its nominees and crown new winners at the upcoming 75th annual Tony Awards. If predicting the win…
"Nothing is impossible," remarked Patti LuPone in 1980 just moments after receiving the Tony Award for her performance in "Evita." The role transformed the actress into a Broadway sensation,…
The curtain will soon rise on the 75th annual Tony Awards, so naturally Gold Derby has taken its cue to reassemble its Broadway prognosticators to break down what shows will win big on June …
"To say that this is a dream come true is an understatement," marveled Sutton Foster in 2002 when Jerry Orbach and Doris Roberts called her name as the winner of the Tony Award for her perfo…
"Thank you for this work that's just so magic and so worth it," expressed Mary-Louise Parker when she accepted the Tony Award from presenter Gwyneth Paltrow in 2001 for her unforgettable per…
"It's what any actor would dream of," shares Tony Shalhoub of his ever-evolving character Abe Weissman on Amazon Prime's "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel." In the fourth season, the former Colu…
The 2022 Tony Award nominations have been unveiled and, per usual, we have opinions! Â Susan Haskins joined us in a lively discussion to dissect this crop of nominees. We reveal what we th…
Fresh off of her second Tony Award victory last year for "The Sound Inside," Mary-Louise Parker has earned a follow-up nomination in the same category for her work in the revival of Paula Vo…
Bobby, bubi, we need to talk about the Tony Awards! This season's revival of the late Stephen Sondheim's landmark musical "Company" earned nine nominations, the highest for any musical reviv…
With 34 productions eligible for this year's Tony Awards, there were plenty of names missing when nominations were announced on Monday morning. Among the most surprising 2022 Tony Awards nom…
In a Broadway season so crowded with exceptional productions " 34 musicals, plays, and revivals opened during the 2021-2022 eligibility window " it is no surprise that the 29 Tony Awards nom…
With the announcement of the Tony Awards nominations on May 9, we now know the shows and performers in contention for the 75th annual ceremony. The 29 members of the Tony nominating committe…
Ever since the current Tony Awards season kicked off on August 22, 2021 with the opening of new play "Pass Over," Gold Derby has been recapping the critical response to each of the 34 eligib…
The final production of the historic 2021-2022 Broadway season reaches back to the early modern era for inspiration with a remounting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth." Tony-winner Sam Gold…
In politics " and Broadway's Tony Awards season " timing is everything. New play "POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive," knows that extraordinarily …
Eighty years after Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Skin of Our Teeth" debuted on Broadway, the sprawling work has returned to the New York stage in a lavish production at Linco…
Two musical revivals will dominate the 2022 Tony Awards nominations, according to our official odds in 17 of the 25 categories. "Company" and "The Music Man" will each earn at least seven bi…
Broadway came roaring back from its long winter of coronavirus closures with 34 musicals, plays, and revivals opening in the 2021-2022 season. If that whopping number of eligible productions…
Time has finally caught up with Billy Crystal, at least in terms of his age and the age of his character in "Mr. Saturday Night." The 1992 film found the young Crystal playing decades older …
Every so often, a musical arrives on Broadway that fundamentally changes the art form. Just as rarely, a musical will take home the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, which has only happened 10 times…
Two years after its premature pandemic closure, Martin McDonagh's play "Hangmen" has slipped the proverbial noose and returned to Broadway in a plot twist you might think McDonagh wrote hims…
For all those people who have been dying to hear the music that makes me you dance once again on a Broadway stage, "Funny Girl" has finally returned after a 58-year absence. Beanie Feldstein…