While the Drama Desk Awards nominate a slew of off-Broadway fare, almost all of the winners come from Broadway, even when there are only one or two of these bigger budget shows in the runnin…
This Sunday’s Drama Desk Awards could well be a preview of next Sunday’s Tony Awards on the play side with almost all of the above-the-line awards going to our predicted front-ru…
Winners of the 63rd annual Drama Desk Awards were revealed on June 3 during a ceremony at the Town Hall in midtown Manhattan that was hosted once again by Michael Urie. As with the Outer Cri…
Working behind the TV scenes as a producer, Bryan Cranston faced his biggest challenge when he created an imaginative screen adaptation of popular book "Dangerous Book for Boys," an Emmy con…
"Nothing's going to compete against 'The Band's Visit,'" Michael Musto roars when we size up the Tony Awards race for Best Musical during our webcam chat with Susan Haskins (Theater Talk). W…
The Tony Awards celebrating the 2017-18 Broadway season are still a week away but the derby for next year's trophies has already begun with the opening of "The Boys in the Band," the first p…
The 2018 Tony Awards will be handed out on Sunday night, June 10, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, and CBS has announced the first round of presenters. Uzo Aduba, Matt Bomer, Clair…
"It becomes a very personal experience to each audience member," reveals Katrina Lenk of her Broadway musical "The Band's Visit." Lenk portrays Dina, an Israeli woman who befriends a troupe …
This is the second part of Gold Derby's coverage of the 9th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival where Oscar winners and film fans gathered at Hollywood's famed Chinese Theater. (Read Part 1 of …
Ariana Grande released her new single “No Tears Left to Cry” on April 20, and it debuted at number-three on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. And it has stayed in the top-10 s…
As one of the best predictors of the Emmy nominations two years in a row, our reader Jeffrey Kare now numbers among Gold Derby’s All-Star Users who compete in a league against our Expe…
Nick Kroll is very blunt about where the crazy stories on the show “Big Mouth” come from. “The stories come from the experiences of me and [co-creator] Andrew Goldberg, our…
Universal Television is hoping to have a galactic impact on the Emmy Awards this year thanks to its vast array of programming including “World of Dance,” “Will & Grace&…
Director Alex Rudzinski admits that live television is a high risk, high reward business where there are “so many things that could go wrong,” and that was no different on …
When it comes to producing live television you only have “one chance to get it right,” so “Jesus Christ Superstar” production designer Jason Ardizzone West was “…
It’s a good week for a whole slew of Broadway talent who were just announced as Tony Award nominees for the 2018 ceremony. Many of those nominated include actors and writers who have e…
There was plenty to cheer about when the 2018 Tony Awards nominations were announced on May 1. Deserving performers like Michael Cera (“Lobby Hero”), Deborah Findlay (“The …
We’re approaching the 2018 Billboard Music Awards on Sunday, May 20, and the show has announced two more performers who will take the stage: John Legend and Kelly Clarkson. They join a…
"With 11 nominations it's the most nominated play in Tony history." I expected to be referencing the Broadway juggernaut "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" when making such a statement, but…
On Tuesday Brian Tyree Henry received the first Tony nomination of his career, for the Broadway revival of Kenneth Lonergan‘s “Lobby Hero.” Henry earned rave reviews for…
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice “always conceived [‘Jesus Christ Superstar’] as more raw, stripped-down,” says producer Neil Meron about his approach to the rock ope…
There are four brand new songs in the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart as two artists make big debuts: Ariana Grande enters at number-three with her new song “No Tears Lef…
"The Handmaid's Tale" has three strong contenders this year in the Emmy race for Best Drama Guest Actress, having won the category last year for Alexis Bledel's role in the first season. Ble…
Out of the all nominees spread across the 26 categories at the 2018 Tony Awards, 18 of them stand out as particularly noteworthy items of trivia. Three of this year's acting nominees have no…
“I’m excited for the possibility of being in that rare group of people who have won all four of those awards,” says John Legend about the possibility of achieving EGOT this…