Friday, June 10, 2022
After an extraordinary season boasting 34 musicals, plays, and revivals, Broadway will toast its nominees and crown new winners at the upcoming 75th annual Tony Awards. If predicting the win…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PMThursday, June 9, 2022
“Nothing is impossible,” remarked Patti LuPone in 1980 just moments after receiving the Tony Award for her performance in “Evita.” The role transformed the actress into a Broadway se…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PMThe curtain will soon rise on the 75th annual Tony Awards, so naturally Gold Derby has taken its cue to reassemble its Broadway prognosticators to break down what shows will win big on June …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AMWednesday, June 8, 2022
“To say that this is a dream come true is an understatement,” marveled Sutton Foster in 2002 when Jerry Orbach and Doris Roberts called her name as the winner of the Tony Award for her p…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PMTuesday, June 7, 2022
“Thank you for this work that’s just so magic and so worth it,” expressed Mary-Louise Parker when she accepted the Tony Award from presenter Gwyneth Paltrow in 2001 for her unforgettab…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:00PMMonday, May 16, 2022
The 2022 Tony Award nominations have been unveiled and, per usual, we have opinions! Susan Haskins joined us in a lively discussion to dissect this crop of nominees. We reveal what we thin…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PMTuesday, May 10, 2022
Fresh off of her second Tony Award victory last year for “The Sound Inside,” Mary-Louise Parker has earned a follow-up nomination in the same category for her work in the revival of Paul…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PMBobby, bubi, we need to talk about the Tony Awards! This season’s revival of the late Stephen Sondheim’s landmark musical “Company” earned nine nominations, the highest for any music…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:00PMMonday, May 9, 2022
With 34 productions eligible for this year’s Tony Awards, there were plenty of names missing when nominations were announced on Monday morning. Among the most surprising 2022 Tony Awards n…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:15AMIn a Broadway season so crowded with exceptional productions – 34 musicals, plays, and revivals opened during the 2021-2022 eligibility window – it is no surprise that the 29 Tony Awards…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:45AMWith the announcement of the Tony Awards nominations on May 9, we now know the shows and performers in contention for the 75th annual ceremony. The 29 members of the Tony nominating committe…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:00AMSunday, May 8, 2022
Ever since the current Tony Awards season kicked off on August 22, 2021 with the opening of new play “Pass Over,” Gold Derby has been recapping the critical response to each of the 34 el…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:00AMSaturday, May 7, 2022
The final production of the historic 2021-2022 Broadway season reaches back to the early modern era for inspiration with a remounting of William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.” Tony-winner Sa…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AMFriday, May 6, 2022
In politics – and Broadway’s Tony Awards season – timing is everything. New play “POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive,” knows that extrao…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 07:00PMEighty years after Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Skin of Our Teeth” debuted on Broadway, the sprawling work has returned to the New York stage in a lavish production at…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:00PMTwo musical revivals will dominate the 2022 Tony Awards nominations, according to our official odds in 17 of the 25 categories. “Company” and “The Music Man” will each earn at least …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:30AMBroadway came roaring back from its long winter of coronavirus closures with 34 musicals, plays, and revivals opening in the 2021-2022 season. If that whopping number of eligible productions…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AMWednesday, May 4, 2022
Time has finally caught up with Billy Crystal, at least in terms of his age and the age of his character in “Mr. Saturday Night.” The 1992 film found the young Crystal playing decades ol…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PMTuesday, May 3, 2022
Every so often, a musical arrives on Broadway that fundamentally changes the art form. Just as rarely, a musical will take home the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, which has only happened 10 times…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AMWednesday, April 27, 2022
Two years after its premature pandemic closure, Martin McDonagh’s play “Hangmen” has slipped the proverbial noose and returned to Broadway in a plot twist you might think McDonagh wrot…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PMFor all those people who have been dying to hear the music that makes me you dance once again on a Broadway stage, “Funny Girl” has finally returned after a 58-year absence. Beanie Felds…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AMTuesday, April 26, 2022
Forty-six years after the original production of Ntozake Shange’s legendary choreopoem “for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf,” a sterling revival has…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:00PMWednesday, April 20, 2022
Twenty five years after the Off-Broadway debut of Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “How I Learned to Drive,” the contemporary American classic has at long last made its bow on…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PMIn a Broadway season teeming with exciting plays, musicals, and revivals, a dramatization of a small city council meeting may sound dull. Perhaps in the hands of a lesser playwright than Pul…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AMMonday, April 18, 2022
Over two years after its slated pre-pandemic bow, the fourth production of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo” has arrived on Broadway. The nearly 50-year-old play takes place in a junk s…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PMTuesday, April 12, 2022
Almost a decade after her Broadway debut, Emmy-winner Debra Messing has returned to the New York stage in new play “Birthday Candles,” which taps into her gifts of comedy and sentimental…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AMWednesday, April 6, 2022
The ensemble of Second Stage Theatre’s revival of “Take Me Out” has waited over two years for the first pitch of this baseball drama on Broadway, but after the lengthy pandemic delay t…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:00AMTuesday, April 5, 2022
Broadway’s mad dash to the Tony Award nominations began on April 3 with the opening of original musical “Paradise Square,” the first of 17 new productions set to bow this month. Set du…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:00PMTuesday, March 29, 2022
Twenty-five years after her last appearance on Broadway, Sarah Jessica Parker has returned to the stage in the first revival of Neil Simon’s “Plaza Suite.” For her long-awaited bow, Pa…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PMMonday, March 21, 2022
“It’s been a great season for Black playwrights,” Sam Eckmann says as he introduces Gold Derby’s first slugfest of the 2022 Tony Awards season. A whopping 20 new plays and play reviv…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AMMonday, February 14, 2022
It has been eight years since Hugh Jackman notoriously hopped his way into Radio City Music Hall to host the 68th Tony Awards and even longer since he won a Tony himself. But at long last, J…
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