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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:30PMWednesday, 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 movi…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:30PM“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 audi…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:30PMTuesday, 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 To…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:30PMThe 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 01:00PMMonday, 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 …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:30PMThe 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 01:00PMFriday, 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 “Th…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AMTuesday, 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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:30PMMonday, 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 th…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:00PMWednesday, 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. Th…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:00PMTuesday, 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 …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PMTuesday, 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,” refl…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:00PMFriday, 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“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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:00PMIt 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 Manh…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:30AMThursday, 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 06:00PMWednesday, 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 03:00PMTuesday, 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 06:00PMIn 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 03:00PMMonday, 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 Broad…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PMMonday, 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 himsel…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:00PMMonday, 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 “…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:00PMWednesday, 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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 01:00PMFriday, September 29, 2023
Stephen Sondheim has almost never been more popular than in the two years since his passing in November 2021. In that time, celebrated revivals of “Company,” “Into the Woods,” and �…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 05:00PMSunday, June 11, 2023
The 76th Tony Awards will take place on Sunday, June 11 in a two-part telecast staged at the United Palace in Washington Heights. Nominations were announced on May 2, 2023. Of the 38 eligibl…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:52AMTony Awards nominations were announced on Tuesday, May 2 by Lea Michele and Myles Frost. While the nominations for the 76th annual Tony Awards were determined by 40 theatre professionals, wi…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:49AMThursday, June 8, 2023
New musical “Kimberly Akimbo” will win the most Tony Awards, according to our official odds in all 26 categories. The latest from Tony-winning composer Jeanine Tesori and six-time Tony-n…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:00PMAfter an extraordinary season boasting 38 productions of musicals, plays, and revivals, Broadway will toast its nominees and crown new winners at the upcoming 76th annual Tony Awards. If pre…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AMThe 2023 Tony Awards race for Best Play has already made history, even before the winner will be revealed on June 11. For the first time, three Pulitzer Prize-winning dramas were nominated i…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:00AMFriday, May 5, 2023
For the first time in the 76-year history of the Tony Awards, three Pulitzer Prize-winning original dramas have been nominated in the Best Play category in the same year. Only five of the 17…
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