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Almost 300 Gold Derby readers predicted the nominees in the top eight races at the Tony Awards. In total, our Users logged over 2,200 predictions. To see how you fared, log in to your a…
With 37 productions in contention for this year's Tony Awards, there were plenty of surprises in Tuesday's nominations announcement. (See full list of nominations here.)
Among th…
The 66th annual edition of these top theater kudos will be handed out on Sunday, June 10 at New York's Beacon Theater and air live on CBS. Nominees were determined by 22 theater professi…
"Once," the stage adaptation of the 2007 Oscar-winning film about an Irish composer and his Czech muse, has a leading 11 Tony Awards nominations including Best Musical and bids by …
The Tony Awards announce this year's winners of the Isabelle Stevenson Award and Special Tony Awards. From the press release: "The recipient of the Isabelle Stevenson Award will be …
Entertainment Weekly offers its final Tony nominee predictions: "... whose names will be called when Kristin Chenoweth and Jim Parsons announce the nominations this Tuesday at 8:30 a.m.…
Nominations for this year's Drama Desk Awards are divided almost evenly between Broadway (74) and off-Broadway (76) fare. However, if the past is any indication, almost a…
Our Experts are divided over the winner of the Best Actress (Play) race at the Tony Awards.
Six of them are predicting that Tracie Bennett will win for reprising her Olivier-n…
All of our Experts predict Philip Seymour Hoffman will win Best Actor (Play) for headlining the fourth rialto revival of 1949 Tony champ "Death of a Salesman." Hoffman, who lost th…
The race for Best Actor (Musical) is a close one with two Broadway newcomers -- Jeremy Jordan ("Newsies") and Steve Kazee ("Once") -- jostling for the lead. Jordan, who p…
All but one of our Experts agree that Audra McDonald is on track to take home her fifth Tony Award for her lead performance in the musical "Porgy and Bess." This Broadway darling o…
Our Experts are split about which new work will win Best Play at the Tony Awards on June 10.
Six of our dozen Experts are backing last year's Pulitzer Prize champ "Clybourn…
The new tuner "Newsies" is the clear frontrunner in the race for Best Musical at the upcoming Tony Awards. All but two of our Experts are predicting this musical, based o…
Like the Outer Critics Circle and the Drama Desk, the Drama League does not distinguish between Broadway and off-Broadway when doling out honors. However, with so many shows and pe…
Eight day before the nominations for the Tony Awards are announced, the Outer Critics Circle have weighed in with contenders for their kudos. (Full list of nominations here.)
Members of …
Why April is Broadway's busiest month: "Three productions opened last week, and seven more are opening this week — accounting for about 25 percent of all new shows in the 2011…
Our nine Experts are split almost evenly about the winner of Best Play at the Tony Awards.
Five of them are backing last year's Pulitzer Prize champ "Clybourne Park," …
The Drama League prepares for the 78th Annual Drama League Awards. From the press release: "The Drama League (Executive Director, Gabriel Shanks) has gathered together a team of Broadwa…
Carlos Santana doesn't let his Grammys inside his house: "I look around here in my office with the Grammys and other trophies. I'm grateful -- but grateful they're not at my…
"The play is fast. It's very verbal. It takes very sharp turns very quickly," said Hugh Dancy about the original play "Venus in Fur" currently on Broadway. "I lo…
"Matilda," the tuner edition of the Roald Dahl classic children's book, swept the Olivier Awards Sunday winning a record seven gongs, including Best Musical. It broke by one th…
Johnny Depp jammed with Marilyn Manson at the Golden Gods Awards: "Johnny Depp's life took a pretty different turn after he moved to L.A. with his band The Kids to try his hand at r…
Will Tom Hanks make his Broadway debut in a Nora Ephron play? "The piece, 'Stories About McAlary,' centers on the life of Pulitzer Prize-winning [New York] Post columnist Mike M…
Blair Underwood makes his Broadway debut this month playing one of the most legendary yet challenging characters in theater history - the brooding, emotionally abusive, working class Stanley…
Could "Modern Family" star Eric Stonestreet become "Justified" villain? "Showrunner Graham Yost says Stonestreet's a fit for the show 'because he's a Kan…
