"My intention was to always embed the choreography into the staging, so that it didn't feel like the story stopped for a dance number," reveals "Hadestown" choreographer David Neumann. Comin…
"We approach it as if we're originating the role," reveals Jeff Daniels. The role in question is Atticus Finch in Aaron Sorkin's stage adaptation of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird." Dan…
"There has been more ownership of myself because I have been playing Cher," reveals Stephanie J. Block. The Broadway veteran earned her third Tony nomination recently for playing the pop ico…
"Everyone has an idea of what they think these icons are," reveals Sergio Trujillo. The choreographer earned his second Tony nomination for "Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Tempta…
"You'd be a sociopath if musical theatre came naturally to you," jokes Alex Brightman. He is referencing the highly rehearsed and precisely calibrated technical aspects underneath his Tony-n…
"Original musicals are my favorite thing to do," gushes Tony winner Casey Nicholaw. He won a Tony Award for directing the Broadway smash "Book of Mormon," and earned his 11th Tony nomination…
"If someone said you could not do what you loved to do, how far would you go?" That's the central question director Scott Ellis planted in his new Broadway adaptation of "Tootsie." This musi…
"I'm having to be more inventive, to be more athletic in a way, because the dancers are," admits Warren Carlyle. The choreographer picked up his third Tony nomination for upping his game wit…
Frank Capra would've celebrated his 122nd birthday on May 18, 2019. The three-time Oscar winner dominated the box office throughout the 1930s with his populist fables, nicknamed "Capra-corn.…
In a Gold Derby exclusive, we have learned the category placements of the key Emmy Awards contenders for 20th Century Fox Television and Fox 21 Television Studios. For this season, the studi…
If 'Bohemian Rhapsody' were the cheeseburger of music icon biopics, then 'Rocketman' is the sirloin steak " with lobster on the side." " Dan Wooton, The Sun Judging from the dazzling recepti…
"This is a show that is about today. It's about what's going on in our country now," declares director Des McAnuff about his Broadway musical "Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temp…
Fred Astaire would've celebrated his 120th birthday on May 10, 2019. The Oscar-nominated song and dance man is best remembered for a series of musicals he made alongside Ginger Rogers (who, …
"I have a very strong inner Dee Dee Allen," reveals Tony winner Beth Leavel. Dee Dee is the gloriously vain Broadway diva that Leavel portrays in "The Prom." Her impressive comedic chops ear…
"I just sort of assumed some other celebrity was attached to the project," admits Brandon Uranowitz of the initial table read for Lanford Wilson's "Burn This." His assumption was wrong. The …
Most pundits agree that the race for Best Director of a Musical is coming down to Rachel Chavkin ("Hadestown") vs. Daniel Fish ("Oklahoma!"). But the inclusion of Scott Ellis ("Tootsie") is …
"When you're starting with a completely blank slate, it's definitely more of a challenge," admits book writer and lyricist Chad Beguelin. Beguelin and composer Matthew Sklar picked up a 2019…
John Murphy composed the score for the new adaptation of "Les Miserables," but competing with the iconic music from the Broadway version wasn't an issue for him because, perhaps surprisingly…
Bruce Springsteen rocked the house Sunday during a Q&A for Netflix's "Springsteen on Broadway" moderated by Martin Scorsese. The two old friends swapped stories about their appreciation …
There's definitely a new quick path to EGOT " or at least three-quarters of it. First Cynthia Erivo won a Tony, Grammy and Emmy for "The Color Purple." Then Ben Platt and Rachel Bay Jones ac…
When the nominations for the 2019 Tony Awards were finally announced on Tuesday, major races were shaken up by shocking omissions. Gold Derby contributors David Buchanan and Sam Eckmann got …
Tony Awards predictions experts Michael Musto (NewNowNext), Brian Lipton (Cititour) and I agree that "Hadestown" will win Best Musical, but we disagree on what rival is its biggest threat. "…
Out of all the nominees spread across the 26 categories at the 2018 Tony Awards, 20 of them stand out as particularly noteworthy. Check out the complete list of nominations here. The followi…
Glenda Jackson was looking to do what no one has ever done before at the Tony Awards: win Best Actress in a Play in back-to-back years. Alas, she won't get a chance to, as the Triple Crown c…
Nominations for the 73rd annual Tony Awards were announced on April 30 by two-time Tony winner Bebe Neuwirth ("Sweet Charity," "Chicago") and three-time nominee Brandon Victor Dixon. While t…