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 f…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:00AMFriday, 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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:00AMFriday, 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 …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:00AMMonday, 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 07:00AMFriday, 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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AMThursday, 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 …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:30PMFriday, 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 …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:15AMSaturday, 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 pl…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 12:00PMMonday, 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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:30AMMonday, 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”…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:00PMFriday, 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…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:00AMFriday, 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,…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 07:30AMTuesday, 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 overwhe…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:37PMOn 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 Eckma…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:37PMTuesday, 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 Br…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:30PMMonday, 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 02:00PMWednesday, 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 Grea…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:30AMWednesday, 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 …
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:00AMSunday, 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 third To…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:50AMWednesday, 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 Et…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 03:30PMFriday, 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, D…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:00AMTuesday, 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. Dir…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 10:00AMFriday, 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 th…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:30AMThursday, 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 Kl…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 09:00AMTuesday, April 4, 2017
In 2001, the whimsical French film “Amélie” captivated audiences and earned five Oscar nominations, including Best Foreign Language Film. On April 3, a musical adaptation of the movie s…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:30PMMonday, March 27, 2017
After nearly a quarter-century as a playwright, Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage has finally made her Broadway debut by way of new drama “Sweat,” which opened at Studio 54 on March 2…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 08:30AMTuesday, February 7, 2017
Jake Gyllenhaal just can’t seem to catch a break with American awards shows. After missing out on an Oscar nomination two weeks ago for his performance in “Nocturnal Animals,” Gyl…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 07:30PMTuesday, January 10, 2017
“Sweat,” one of the most critically acclaimed plays of New York’s fall season, will open on Broadway this spring. The show, a timely chronicle of the lives of union factory workers in…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 11:30AMThursday, December 29, 2016
“Sunday in the Park with George,” one of only nine musicals to win the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Drama, will return to Broadway this spring with Oscar-nominee Jake Gyllenhaal (“B…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 04:40AMThursday, November 3, 2016
Last month, six new Broadway productions announced that they will be joining the already-bountiful 2016-17 season. The calendar below details the opening dates for each of the 34 productions…
SOURCE: Gold Derby at 06:45PM“Oh, Hello on Broadway,” a new stage play starring Nick Kroll and John Mulaney as their sketch comedy characters Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland respectively, recently opened on Broad…
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