Tuesday, 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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:30AMThursday, February 3, 2022
Two weeks after the closing of her play “Clyde’s,” Lynn Nottage has opened a new jukebox musical about a star who needs no introduction. Penned by the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, �…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AMFriday, January 28, 2022
Ten days after her first Broadway show ended an acclaimed run, playwright Dominique Morisseau has just opened another. The Tony-nominee penned the libretto for musical “Ain’t Too Proud: …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AMMonday, January 17, 2022
Cary Grant back on Broadway? For five weeks this winter, the debonaire actor treaded the boards again in spirit in the form of Tony Yazbeck, who portrayed the Golden Age movie star in the mu…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:00PMSaturday, December 11, 2021
Over fifty years after its debut on Broadway in 1970, Stephen Sondheim’s genre-redefining musical “Company” has returned in a reimagined production by Tony Award-winning director Maria…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:00PMFriday, December 10, 2021
Almost thirty years after Robin Williams played “Mrs. Doubtfire” on the big screen, a musical adaptation has bowed on Broadway. The farcical plot follows divorced father Daniel, who dre…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:00AMWednesday, November 24, 2021
It has been almost five years since playwright Lynn Nottage made her Broadway debut with “Sweat” and almost 10 since Uzo Aduba last appeared on a Broadway stage. They both return, triump…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:15AMFriday, November 19, 2021
Many plays and musicals have had to wait a long year and a half to open on Broadway, with premieres delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic. But none are more overdue than Alice Childres…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:30AMThursday, November 18, 2021
Diana, Princess of Wales has been portrayed in no shortage of high profile works of fiction this past year, from her introduction on the fourth season of Netflix’s “The Crown” to Pablo…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:45AMThursday, October 28, 2021
Seventeen years after its Broadway debut, musical “Caroline, or Change” has returned in what critics describe as an “electrifying” production. The show is set in 1960s Louisiana and …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:00AMMonday, October 18, 2021
Last week, “Is This a Room” opened on Broadway to rave reviews as one half of a repertory production that also features Tony-nominee Lucas Hnath’s “Dana H.” This companion piece, o…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:00AMFriday, October 15, 2021
“The Lehman Trilogy” has had a protracted journey to Broadway. Not quite as long as the nearly two centuries of history that the play chronicles, of course, but what began in London in 2…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:00PMThursday, October 14, 2021
Back in March 2020, the Bob Dylan songbook musical “Girl From the North Country” opened on Broadway on March 5, just one week before theaters shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic. N…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:00PMBack in February, the new play “Thoughts of a Colored Man” installed its marquee at the Golden Theatre, an encouraging sign almost a year into the coronavirus pandemic that the frost on …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AMTuesday, October 12, 2021
The long-awaited reopening of Broadway has just welcomed one of its most unique offerings of the season with the debut of new drama “Is This a Room.” One of a duo of transcript plays to …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PMMonday, October 11, 2021
Ten years after making his Broadway debut as an actor in “The Book of Mormon,” Douglas Lyons just took his first bow as a playwright with “Chicken & Biscuits,” which opened at th…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:07AMFriday, October 8, 2021
Twenty years after Ruben Santiago-Hudson first brought the town of Lackawanna, New York to life Off-Broadway, his autobiographical play “Lackawanna Blues” has arrived on Broadway. The so…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:00AMMonday, October 4, 2021
In March of last year, the new musical “Six” was literally minutes away from opening on Broadway when the coronavirus pandemic halted its performance. Eighteen months later, the musical …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:00PMMonday, September 27, 2021
As our exclusive odds predicted, “Moulin Rouge!” won 10 of its 13 Tony Awards races, including the top prize, Best Musical. It also claimed the awards for Best Director (Alex Timbers), B…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:30AMSunday, September 26, 2021
Heading into Sunday night’s Tony Awards, Tom Hiddleston looked like a lock for the Best Actor in a Play award. The Emmy-nominated actor and star of Marvel movies and the “Loki” series …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:02PMOn his seventh try, Danny Burstein finally has a Tony Award. The beloved Broadway veteran claimed his career-first trophy for his featured performance in “Moulin Rouge! The Musical.” The…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:22PMThe 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 06:30PMBroadway 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 06:00PMSaturday, 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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:00PMThursday, 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. Nominat…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PMWednesday, 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, includ…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:00PMTuesday, 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 categori…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PMThursday, 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 …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:30AM 
