Sunday, September 26, 2021
The long-delayed 74th Tony Awards was held on Sunday, September 26 in a two-part telecast staged at the Winter Garden theater. Six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald hosted a ceremony on Paramo…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:30PM[SHARE]Broadway has just reopened after shuttering on March 13, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. To mark the return of the rialto, the 74th annual Tonys were handed out on Sunday, September 26 at…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 25, 2021
Two decades ago Mary-Louise Parker won her first Tony Award for her enthralling performance in David Auburn's "Proof." Five Broadway appearances later, Parker is on the cusp of winning the s…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 23, 2021
Almost 30 years after earning his first Tony Awards nomination for portraying Jackie Robinson in the musical "The First," David Alan Grier may finally take home his first trophy. Nominated t…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 22, 2021
"Slave Play" made history back in October when it received 12 Tony Awards nominations, the most ever for a play. Five of those citations recognize members of its stellar ensemble, including …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Five years ago, Lin Manuel-Miranda's "Hamilton" won 11 Tony Awards, just one shy of the record held by "The Producers." In the years since, landslide sweeps in the musical categories have be…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 26, 2021
Almost 18 months after the last new show opened on Broadway " the musical "The Girl from the North Country," which bowed on March 5, 2020 " the New York theatre community celebrated the rial…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:30AM[SHARE]Monday, March 1, 2021
"The plays are really where it's at in terms of races," Sam Eckmann declares to kick off the first of our 2021 Tony Awards predictions slugfest. Though we don't yet know the date when the wi…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 21, 2021
When Golden Globes nominations were announced, Jane Levy beat our odds and landed a slot in the Best TV Comedy/Musical Actress category. The singing star of NBC's musical comedy "Zoey's E…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:37AM[SHARE]Monday, February 1, 2021
In the Golden Globes race for Best Comedy/Musical Series, a category that will most likely boast shows about a riches-to-rags family saga, Catherine the Great and a cadre of vampires, there …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:04AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 31, 2021
Netflix's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" is slated to have a big morning when Golden Globes nominations are announced on Feb. 3, with predicted bids for Best Film Drama, Drama Actress (Viola Dav…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 07:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Four years ago Bryan Cranston pulled off a huge upset at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in the TV movie/limited series acting category, winning for HBO's "All the Way." Lightning could strik…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 15, 2020
In an unprecedented year for the Broadway community, the Tony Awards just gifted theatre fans with a reason to celebrate: Jeremy O. Harris' audacious and brilliant "Slave Play" now holds the…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:30PM[SHARE]With the announcement of the Tony Awards nominations on October 15, we now know the shows and performers in contention but we still don't know when the winners will be announced. The Tonys h…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:30PM[SHARE]Tony Awards nominations are always tricky to predict, but this year's shortlist of Broadway's best and brightest proves even more challenging to wrangle thanks to the coronavirus-shortened s…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Every Tony Awards nominations morning features thrilling surprises and shocking omissions, and even in a year with an unfortunately thinner slate of shows due to COVID-19, theatre fans will …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:00PM[SHARE]Friday, February 21, 2020
"West Side Story," one of the most beloved and enduring Broadway musicals of all time, has often been seen on the Great White Way since it premiered more than sixty years ago, but never quit…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 18, 2019
The Tony and Emmy-winning actress Mary-Louise Parker, who last starred on Broadway in the two-character play "Heisenberg" in 2016, returned in another two-hander play "The Sound Inside," whi…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 17, 2019
Last season, director Stephen Brackett and librettist Joe Tracz teamed up for the musical "Be More Chill," which found much favor with the teenage demographic of Broadway theatergoers. Just …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 16, 2019
In recent years, Roundabout Theatre Company has demonstrated a knack for pairing stellar actresses in revivals by acclaimed playwrights, including Annette Bening in Arthur Miller's "All My S…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AM[SHARE]Monday, October 14, 2019
Although a familiar face to Broadway audiences of late as an actor, Tracy Letts (he starred in a Tony-nominated revival of "All My Sons" last season) has not had one of his plays here in alm…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Even though it's early days in the 2019-2020 Broadway season, Jeremy O. Harris's new drama "Slave Play" has just emerged as the first genuine Tony Awards contender in the play categories. Af…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 2, 2019
On Sunday nights, millions of viewers watch Brian Cox deliver a gargantuan performance as Logan Roy on HBO's Emmy-winning drama series "Succession," but eight times a week Cox steps into the…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:00PM[SHARE]Monday, September 30, 2019
This past Sunday (September 29), the Broadway production of "Sea Wall/A Life" concluded its run at the Hudson Theatre. The new play, which consists of two separate, thematically connected mo…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:00PM[SHARE]Friday, September 27, 2019
Just three years ago, French playwright Florian Zeller made a splash on the Great White Way with his play "The Father," which nabbed him a Best Play Tony nomination and earned its star Frank…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:00PM[SHARE]Friday, June 7, 2019
With only a few days remaining to fret over Tony predictions, Gold Derby contributors Sam Eckmann and David Buchanan joined up to discuss the musical categories, debating some of the biggest…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 18, 2019
Some musicals take a hellish road to the Great White Way. For "Hadestown," whose plot entwines stories from Greek mythology focused on Hades, Persephone, Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes, and the F…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 13, 2019
"It is a very competitive year for the plays," Sam Eckmann announces when he and fellow contributor David Buchanan chatted via webcam about the top Play categories at the 73rd Tony Awards. T…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 6, 2019
After her Tony Awards coronation last season for Edward Albee's "Three Tall Women," Glenda Jackson could have rested on her laurels. Instead, she returns to the Broadway stage this season in…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 15, 2019
One of Cole Porter's most popular shows, "Kiss Me, Kate," hasn't been seen on the boards of the Great White Way in nearly two decades. This season mark the return of the classic musical come…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:00PM[SHARE]Monday, November 5, 2018
Almost a decade after her Broadway debut, Kerry Washington has returned to the boards in an explosive new drama "American Son," which opened at the Booth Theatre on November 4. Washington le…
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