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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 16, 2018
Sara Bareilles has had no shortage of accomplishments over the course of her career as a singer-songwriter, earning six Grammy Award nominations and two Tony Award bids in recent years. Now,…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 12, 2018
After NBC aired its live production of "Jesus Christ Superstar" in April, one name skyrocketed onto the Emmy radar: Brandon Victor Dixon. He’s best known for his stage work, includi…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 19, 2018
The Tony Awards just toasted the best productions and performers of the past Broadway season, and in a few weeks two of the big winners there —Â Tony Shalhoub and Laurie Metcalf R…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:30PM[SHARE]Monday, June 11, 2018
On May 1, the Broadway production of "Mean Girls," based on the popular 2004 movie, earned a whopping 12 Tony nominations and became the most-nominated show of the year alongside musical "Sp…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 9, 2018
At last year's Tony Awards, the two biggest upsets of the night came in the Best Director categories. On the musical side, Christopher Ashley ("Come From Away") shocked by besting frontrunne…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 7, 2018
Last June, Laurie Metcalf won her first Tony Award for her performance in "A Doll's House, Part 2." In the past twelve months, Metcalf received Oscar, SAG, and Golden Globe Award nominations…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 2, 2018
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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 30, 2018
Edward Albee won three Pulitzer Prizes over the course of his distinguished career, with two of those award-winning plays ("A Delicate Balance," "Seascape") bowing on Broadway during his lif…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 23, 2018
Just a day after a spring Nor'easter blew through New York City, a much more permanent ice storm began to brew on Broadway as "Frozen," the high-profile stage adaptation of Disney's billion-…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, February 12, 2018
Jan Maxwell, a beloved mainstay of New York City theater, died on Feb. 11 at the age of 61. Over the course of her illustrious career, in which she appeared in 13 Broadway and numerous Off-B…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 07:00AM[SHARE]Friday, December 1, 2017
In a season already chock-full of starry Broadway debuts, Nov. 30 might have marked the biggest to date as Oscar-nominated Uma Thurman ("Pulp Fiction") bowed at the Hudson Theatre in the new…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 30, 2017
Only a year-and-a-half after his Broadway bow as a playwright, Steve Martin ("Bright Star") has returned to the Great White Way with a new comedy "Meteor Shower,"which opened at the Booth Th…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:30PM[SHARE]Friday, November 10, 2017
Last year, the small and intimate musical "The Band's Visit," based on the 2007 independent film of the same name, opened Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company. The show, which earned…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:15AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 4, 2017
In 2013, playwright Ayad Akhtar won the Pulitzer Prize for "Disgraced," which went on to bow on Broadway in 2014 and earn a Best Play nomination at the 2015 Tony Awards. His follow-up play, …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PM[SHARE]Monday, October 30, 2017
In 1988, the original production of David Henry Hwang's groundbreaking play "M. Butterfly" earned the admiration of critics and audience, won three Tony Awards out of seven nominations, and …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:30AM[SHARE]Monday, September 25, 2017
Jake Gyllenhaal may have missed out on a chance to win a Tony Award for his performance in the recent revival of Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece musical "Sunday in the Park With George" (the …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:00PM[SHARE]Friday, June 30, 2017
After an initial bow Off-Broadway in 1991 and a starry, Oscar-nominated movie adaptation in 1996 starring Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton, Scott McPherson's "Marvin's Room" has finally debuted…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 23, 2017
In a year in which dystopian narratives have dominated literature and television, it's only fitting that "1984," a stage adaptation of George Orwell's classic novel of the same name, officia…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 07:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 13, 2017
In the five weeks between Tony Awards nominations being announced on May 2 and Sunday's ceremony, the Best Actress in a Play contest has gone from predictable to nail-biter. With a overwhelm…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:37PM[SHARE]On the eve of the 71st Tony Awards on June 11, Gold Derby's in-house trio of theater prognosticators " executive editor Paul Sheehan and contributing writers David Buchanan and Sam Eckmann" …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 6, 2017
In the weeks leading up to this year's Tony Awards nominations, new drama "Sweat" seemed to be the show to beat in the Best Play category, not only because it marks the long-awaited Broadway…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:30PM[SHARE]Monday, June 5, 2017
After victories at both the Outer Critics Circle Awards and Sunday’s Drama Desk Awards, Kevin Kline appears to be the clear frontrunner for the Best Actor in a Play Tony Award for his …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Theater veteran Johanna Day has only made four appearances on Broadway over the course of her long stage career, but she clearly has impeccable taste. Each one of Day's outings on the Great …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Gold Derby's in-house trio of Tony Awards prognosticators " executive editor Paul Sheehan, contributing writer Sam Eckmann, and myself " met via webcam to discuss our reactions to the May 2 …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 30, 2017
For the last three years running at the Tony Awards, one of the five Best Actress in a Play nominees reaped her bid for a closed production. Last year, Laurie Metcalf earned her th…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Tony-winner John Guare's ("Two Gentleman of Verona") acclaimed play "Six Degrees of Separation," a finalist for the 1991 Pulitzer Prize, has returned to Broadway, opening at the Ethel Barrym…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:30PM[SHARE]Friday, April 21, 2017
Seldom does a pairing of actress and role feel so intrinsically perfect as Bette Midler and Dolly Gallagher Levi, the titular character in Jerry Herman's classic musical comedy "Hello, Dolly…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 18, 2017
After a beleaguered preview period marred by technical malfunctions and an injury, the new musical "Groundhog Day" based on the 1993 film of the same name opened on Monday, April 17. Directe…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 7, 2017
In 2006, composer Scott Frankel, lyricist Michael Korie, and playwright Doug Wright teamed up to create the musical "Grey Gardens," one of the most praised original musicals in recent theatr…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 6, 2017
In the six decades since "Present Laughter" debuted on Broadway in 1947, Noël Coward's farce has been revived five times including the new production starring Oscar winner Kevin …
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