Tuesday, April 23, 2024
"I think it's just the stark reality of all the things that happened to this one person and the level of clearheaded determination she had," shares Nikki M. James of what surprised her the m…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:30PM[SHARE]"It's really cool to get to see a show from different perspectives," says Hannah Cruz about her unique history with the musical "Suffs." When the show played Off-Broadway at the Public Theat…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 21, 2024
"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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:00PM[SHARE]"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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:00PM[SHARE]"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."…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 19, 2024
"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 …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 17, 2024
"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,…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:30PM[SHARE]"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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 16, 2024
"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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:30PM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:00PM[SHARE]Monday, April 15, 2024
"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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:30PM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:00PM[SHARE]Friday, April 12, 2024
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 …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 9, 2024
"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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:30PM[SHARE]Monday, April 8, 2024
"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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 3, 2024
"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 …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 2, 2024
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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 26, 2024
"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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:00PM[SHARE]Friday, March 22, 2024
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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PM[SHARE]"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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:00PM[SHARE]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 …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 21, 2024
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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 13, 2024
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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 12, 2024
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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:00PM[SHARE]Monday, January 29, 2024
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 …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 19, 2023
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 …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 12, 2023
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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:00PM[SHARE]Monday, October 23, 2023
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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:00PM[SHARE]Monday, October 16, 2023
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 …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 11, 2023
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…
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