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Lupita Nyong’o gets into character while walking the carpet at the opening night of Teeth at New World Stages on Thursday (October 31) in New York City.

The 41-year-old Tony-nominated MCU actress dressed another character from Marvel – X-Men’s Storm – for the new musical’s Off-Broadway opening.

“*Employees must wash hands* — Marvel Management,” Lupita captioned a video of her in costume on Instagram. “...

Jen Namoff, the talent manager and Tony Award-winning co-producer of Stereophonic, has joined the Artists First management and production company.

Namoff, who will remain based in New York, will integrate her management operations under the Artists First umbrella while continuing to lead Namoff & Co. in its theatrical production ventures.

Among the clients Namoff will bring with her to Artists First are Tituss Burgess, Kelly McCreary, Katrina Lenk, Julia Mattison, Lorna Courtney, Nkeki Obi-Melekwe, Solea Pfeiffer, Ben Ahlers, Peter Dager, Adam Kantor, Sasha Allen, among others.

In a joint statement, the Artist First Partners said, “We are thrilled to welcome Jen Namoff to our team. She brings an exciting group of talented artists, as well as an impeccable reputation, and a set of values that are a natural fit within our organization.”

Namoff commented, “I greatly admire what Peter Principato, Brian Dobbins, and David Gardner have built over the past 25 years with Artists First.

The actors from the current revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s “Merrily We Roll Along” have skyrocketed in Gold Derby’s combined odds for the 2024 Tony Awards nominations. The prediction center displays commanding leads for Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez and Daniel Radcliffe to win their respective categories. This is an understandable result considering this revival is the hottest ticket in town and this trio of performers has been ever-present in the media. But how often does a trio of actors from the same production pull off three separate acting victories at the Tony Awards?

It’s quite common for a musical to grab two acting trophies, but three awards is much rarer. To date, only 15 musical productions have earned three acting wins. The first time this feat occurred was at the 1956 ceremony, which was ironically the first time the Tony Awards ever announced a slate of nominees (previously...

“Big Little Lies” and “Nine Perfect Strangers” author Liane Moriarty gets another adaptation with the all-new Peacock limited drama series “Apples Never Fall.” When Stan and Joy sell their successful tennis academy to spend more time with their adult children and each other in their golden years, their plans take a sudden turn when a mysterious wounded stranger appears at their door and Joy disappears soon after. Starring Annette Bening, Sam Neill, Jake Lacy, Alison Brie, and more, “Apples Never Fall” will premiere on Peacock on Thursday, March 14. You can watch Apples Never Fall with a subscription to Peacock.

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Based on Liane Moriarty’s bestselling novel of the same name, “Apples Never Fall” centers on the seemingly picture-perfect Delaney family: former...

In the opening scene of Apples Never Fall, Joy Delaney (Annette Bening) takes a leisurely bike ride through West Palm Beach, Florida. She’s got the time, having recently retired after decades of coaching tennis alongside her husband, Stan (Sam Neill). Joy cycles by palm trees and mansions and stops to browse stands of impossibly perfect fruit. But as she passes tennis courts bustling with players, her mouth curves into a wistful frown.

A sense of melancholy nags at the superficial idyll of Joy’s excursion, only to burst into outright dread when we see her bike overturned in the street, its back wheel still spinning and its frame splattered with blood, and Joy nowhere to be found. This scene introduces an alluring air of mystery regarding Joy’s inner life and the nature of her seemingly utopian environment. Unfortunately, that intrigue proves incredibly short-lived—a victim of Apples Never Fall’s plodding pace,...

Exclusive: Melanie Marnich is a huge fan of Big Little Lies scribe Liane Moriarty’s work, but when showrunning an adaptation of Moriarty’s Apples Never Fall, Marnich blocked the HBO hit from her consciousness almost entirely.

Peacock’s Apples Never Fall, which stars 2024 Oscar-nominee Annette Bening, launches tomorrow and is in international competition at next week’s Series Mania, was made with a Big Little Lies-free lens, Marnich explained to Deadline.

“I admire Big Little Lies and think it’s brilliant but I had to literally put it out my mind,” she said in the days leading up to the Lille market. “I knew I had to quite quickly ignore all [Moriarty’s past work] and ask what this book wants to be and what the best way is to honor it. How do I ignore all that came before to find the best voice and vision for this translation?”

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Annette Bening is stepping out for the premiere of her new Peacock series!

The 65-year-old Oscar-nominated actress joined co-stars Sam Neill, Jake Lacy, Georgia Flood, Essie Randles, and Conor Merrigan-Turner at the premiere of Apples Never Fall on Tuesday (March 12) held at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.

Fellow cast members also in attendance included Dylan Thuraisingham, Jeanine Serralles, Katrina Lenk, Nate Mann, Paula Andrea Placido, Pooja Shah, and Timm Sharp.

Keep reading to find out more…Here’s the synopsis: “Based on Liane Moriarty’s New York Times bestselling novel, Apples Never Fall centers on the seemingly picture-perfect Delaney family. Former tennis coaches Stan (Neill) and Joy (Bening) have sold their successful tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. While they look forward to spending time with their four adult children, everything changes when a wounded young...

The Egot is one of the most prestigious titles in all of Hollywood.

If you aren’t familiar with the acronym, it stands for “Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony” and references a person who has won all four of the major awards across all the mediums in the entertainment industry.

We’ve compiled the list of all of the stars who are close to Egot status, meaning, they’re missing just one of the four!

Keep reading to find out more…

Every Star Who Needs the “Emmy”

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Every Star Who Needs the “Grammy”

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Frances McDormand

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Al Pacino

Vanessa Redgrave

Geoffrey Rush

Maggie Smith

Every Star Who Needs the “Oscar”

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Anne Garefino

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Peacock has released the full trailer of Apples Never Fall, the limited series starring Annette Bening and Sam Neill, based on Liane Moriarty’s bestselling novel.

“You can spend a lifetime with someone as a wife or as a mother, but you can never really know who they are,” Bening’s Joy says in the trailer.

The series revolves around the seemingly picture-perfect Delaney family, anchored by former tennis coaches Stan (Neill) and Joy (Bening), who have sold their successful tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives.

Jake Lacy, Alison Brie, Conor Merrigan-Turner, Essie Randles play Stan and Joy’s adult children in the 7-episode series written and executive produced by Melanie Marnich.

The logline for the show says that “everything changes when a wounded young woman knocks on Joy and Stan’s door, bringing the excitement they’ve been missing.

Secrets can poison any family, especially one whose matriarch mysteriously goes missing.

Upcoming Peacock series “Apples Never Fall” stars Oscar-nominated “Nyad” actress Annette Bening and “Jurassic Park” icon Sam Neill as the seemingly perfect couple behind an elite tennis academy. Yet as the duo celebrate retirement, Joy (Bening) suddenly goes missing…leaving their family (and the press) to accuse husband Stan (Neill) of being behind her disappearance.

Based on Liane Moriarty’s bestselling novel of the same name, “Apples Never Fall” is the latest adaptation of Moriarty’s work, coming after “Big Little Lies” and “Nine Perfect Strangers.”

The official synopsis for “Apples Never Fall” reads: Former tennis coaches Stan (Sam Neill) and Joy (Annette Bening) Delaney have sold their successful tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. While they look forward to spending time with their four adult children, everything...

Just weeks ago, Sir Elton John became the 19th entertainer to win the highly desirable Egot by claiming his first ever Emmy Award. And now, which person is the most likely to be the 20th Egot later this year, in 2025 or beyond? Here is a summary of the 80 people who have the best chance right now.

The most likely duo could be composers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (actually meaning a 20th and 21st Egot if they win). They are producers and songwriters for the third season of “Only Murders in the Building,” so they will have a couple of opportunities in September at the Emmys. They first won an Oscar, Tony, and Grammy.

For the 2024 Grammys, nobody is nominated who could become an Egot, so the next possible chance would be 2025. There are a total of 25 people who have won everything needed except a Grammy. They are actress Ellen Burstyn,...

While we’re still hoping for a “Big Little Lies” Season 3, the Liane Moriarty cinematic universe is expanding thanks to the upcoming Peacock series “Apples Never Fall.”

Based on Moriarty’s 2021 novel of the same name, the limited series has a stellar cast including Annette Bening, Sam Neill, Jake Lacy, and Alison Brie, and follows an elite family’s innermost secrets as they come to light.

Keep scrolling to see all the details about the Peacock series, which premieres March 14.

What’s the Plot?

Per Peacock, the mystery series centers on the Delaney family, led by former tennis coaches Stan (Neill) and Joy (Bening), who have sold their successful tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. While they look forward to spending time with their four adult children, everything changes when a wounded young woman knocks on Joy and Stan’s door,...

Four-time Oscar nominee Annette Bening and two-time Emmy nominee Sam Neill lead the cast of Peacock’s Apples Never Fall, a limited series based on Liane Moriarty’s New York Times bestselling novel. The first official teaser briefly introduces the family at the heart of the story and reveals that beneath the family matriarch’s happy facade lie carefully kept secrets.

Joining Bening and Neill in the seven-episode drama are Jake Lacy, Alison Brie, Conor Merrigan-Turner, and Essie Randles. Georgia Flood, Jeanine Serralles, and Dylan Thuraisingham also star, with Katrina Lenk, Timm Sharp, Nate Mann, Paula Andrea Placido, Pooja Shah, and Quentin Plair guest starring.

Melanie Marnich (The Oa) adapted Moriarty’s book for the series and serves as executive producer and showrunner. Author Moriarty also executive produces along with Bening, David Heyman, Gregory Jacobs, Joe Hortua, Albert Page, and Jillian Share. Executive producer Chris Sweeney and Dawn Shadforth direct.

Peacock’s limited series Apples Never Fall, starring Annette Bening and Sam Neill, has set a March 14 premiere date and unveiled a first-look teaser (watch it above).

“You’re a devoted wife and mom and know everything about those closest to you. But the truth is, everyone has a secret, even you.” So begins the teaser trailer with the voiceover by Bening’s Joy.

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The seven-episode Apples Never Fall, based on Liane Moriarty’s bestselling novel, centers on the seemingly picture-perfect Delaney family. Former tennis coaches Stan (Neill) and Joy (Bening) have sold their successful tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives.

While they look forward to spending time with their four adult children, everything changes when a wounded young woman knocks...

As the old saying goes, apples never fall far from the tree…and a parent’s dark secrets just very well may be passed on to their children.

In the Peacock adaptation of Liane Moriarty’s bestseller “Apples Never Fall,” Annette Bening and Sam Neill portray the seemingly ideal parents, whose four adult children lead perfect lives. Yet all of that comes crashing down as a stranger enters their lives and Bening’s character disappears.

The official synopsis reads: Former tennis coaches Stan (Neill) and Joy (Bening) have sold their successful tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. While they look forward to spending time with their four adult children, everything changes when a wounded young woman knocks on Joy and Stan’s door, bringing the excitement they’ve been missing. But when Joy suddenly disappears, her children are forced to...

Peacock has released some of the first images of Apples Never Fall, Peacock’s upcoming limited series based on Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers author Liane Moriarty’s bestselling novel. Annette Bening and Sam Neill lead the cast, along with Alison Brie, Jake Lacy, Conor Merrigan-Turner and Essie Randles. The series is set to release on the streamer in March.

From writer-showrunner Melanie Marnich and Universal International Studios’ Heyday Television, Apples Never Fall centers on the seemingly picture-perfect Delaney family. Former tennis coaches Stan (Neill) and Joy (Bening) have sold their successful tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. While they look forward to spending time with their four adult children, everything changes when a wounded young woman knocks on Joy and Stan’s door, bringing the excitement they’ve been missing. But when Joy suddenly disappears,...

The Peacock limited series adaptation of the Liane Moriarty novel “Apples Never Fall” has added six recurring guest stars, Variety has learned exclusively.

Katrina Lenk, Timm Sharp, Nate Mann, Paula Andrea Placido, Pooja Shah, and Quentin Plair have all joined the series.

They will appear alongside previously announced cast members Annette Bening, Sam Neill, Jake Lacy, Alison Brie, Essie Randles, Conor Merrigan-Turner, Georgia Flood, Jeanine Serralles, and Dylan Thuraisingham.

Per the official logline, the series “centers on the Delaneys, who from the outside appear to be an enviably contented family. Former tennis coaches Joy (Bening) and Stan (Neill) are parents to four adult children. After decades of marriage, they have finally sold their famed tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. But after Joy disappears, her children are forced to re-examine their parents’ marriage and their family history with fresh eyes.

Only 18 people have won the awards grand slam known as the Egot. They are (in chronological order of achievement) composer Richard Rodgers, actress Helen Hayes, actress Rita Moreno, actor John Gielgud, actress Audrey Hepburn, composer Marvin Hamlisch, orchestrator Jonathan Tunick, writer/director/composer Mel Brooks, director Mike Nichols, actress Whoopi Goldberg, producer Scott Rudin, composer Robert Lopez, singer and actor John Legend, composer Tim Rice, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer Alan Menken, actress/producer Jennifer Hudson and actress Viola Davis.

Tour our photo gallery above for information about the 28 living people who just need an Academy Award to achieve Egot. They are: actor Andre De Shields, actress Cynthia Erivo, composer/producer Anne Garefino, actor Hugh Jackman, actor James Earl Jones, composer and producer Quincy Jones, actress Rachel Bay Jones, composer John Kander, composer Tom Kitt, composer/actress Cyndi Lauper, composer Alex Lacamoire, producer Stan Lathan, actress Katrina Lenk, actress Audra McDonald,...

Casting Society (CSA) announced Hong Chau, Anna Camp (“Pitch Perfect”), Melanie Lynskey (“The Last of Us”) and Sheryl Lee Ralph (“Abbott Elementary”) are among the presenters for its 38th Artios Awards taking place in both Los Angeles and New York City.

Also presenting at the Los Angeles gala alongside host Yvette Nicole Brown are Utkarsh Ambudkar, Paul Walter Hauser, Andrew Leeds, Sam Richardson, Britt Robertson, Glynn Turman and Tuc Watkins. Sarita Choudhury, Jordan E. Cooper, Rory Culkin, Khris Davis, Alex Edelman, Raúl Esparza, Katie Finneran, Katrina Lenk, Nicole Ari Parker, Peppermint, Morgan Spector, Chris Sullivan and Kuhoo Verma will present at the New York ceremony, with Amber Ruffin as host.

The Artios Awards has 20 categories spanning film, TV and theater. The ceremonies will take place Thursday, March 9.

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The Casting Society (CSA) announced on Tuesday the lineup of presenters for the 38th annual Artios Awards, which will take place on March 9 simultaneously at the Edison Ballroom in New York and the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.

Presenters at the Los Angeles gala will include Utkarsh Ambudkar, Anna Camp, Hong Chau, Paul Walter Hauser, Andrew Leeds, Melanie Lynskey, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Sam Richardson, Britt Robertson, Glynn Turman and Tuc Watkins.

New York presenters will include Sarita Choudhury, Jordan E. Cooper, Rory Culkin, Khris Davis, Alex Edelman, Raúl Esparza, Katie Finneran, Katrina Lenk, Nicole Ari Parker, Peppermint, Morgan Spector and Kuhoo Verma.

Yvette Nicole Brown and Amber Ruffin were previously announced as the hosts at the Los Angeles and New York celebrations, respectively.

Netflix and HBO/HBO Max led the Artios nominations in the television categories, nominees for which were announced October 2022. Netflix also led the film category nominations, which...

The 2023 Screen Actors Guild Award nominations were announced on January 11 in film and television, as voted on by members of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation. Who will prevail in the category of Best Drama Ensemble during Netflix’s YouTube ceremony on Sunday, February 26? This year’s five nominated television casts are: “Better Call Saul,” “The Crown,” “Ozark,” “Severance” and “The White Lotus: Sicily.”

Scroll down to see Gold Derby’s 2023 SAG Awards TV Predictions for Best Drama Ensemble, listed in order of their racetrack odds. Our SAG Awards odds are based on the combined forecasts of thousands of readers, including Experts we’ve polled from major media outlets, Editors who cover awards year-round for this website, Top 24 Users who did the best predicting the winners last time, All-Star Users who had the best prediction scores over the last two years, and the mass of Users who make up our biggest predictions bloc.

Only an elite group of 21 artists so far have achieved Egot status, winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony.

The rare and coveted Egot is not easy to come by, so it’s not surprising that fewer than two dozen have achieved this status. And while the artists don’t get a final Egot trophy when it happens, it’s nonetheless one of show business’ greatest honors.

So, who does have the Egot?

Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Legend, Tim Rice, Rita Moreno, Audrey Hepburn, Mel Brooks, Mike Nichols, Whoopi Goldberg, Helen Hayes, Marvin Hamlisch, Robert Lopez, Richard Rodgers, John Gielgud, Jonathan Tunick, Alan Menken, Jennifer Hudson, Viola Davis, Elton John and Scott Rudin are those who have won all four awards competitively.

While Barbra Streisand, James Earl Jones, Harry Belafonte, Quincy Jones and Liza Minnelli have all received honorary non-competitive awards, not everyone considers them to be Egot achievements.

Songwriters...

Last week, Lea Michele made her much-ballyhooed debut in Funny Girl. It’s an understatement to say the casting of the former Glee star was not without controversy: although Michele had long been considered an obvious choice for Fanny Brice in the revival, having publicly campaigned for the role for more than a decade, Booksmart star Beanie Feldstein was cast instead. Initially, many Broadway insiders speculated the casting decisions stemmed from producers’ reluctance to work with Michele, following 2020 allegations from her costars that she had engaged in bullying and racist behavior on-set.

No one reigns over the Emmys quite like Laura Linney does. A four-time champ, she has famously scored a victory for each of her nominated roles so far, having won for “Wild Iris” (2002), “John Adams” (2008) and “The Big C: Hereafter” (2013) for Best Limited Series/TV Movie Actress, and for “Frasier” (2004) for Best Comedy Guest Actress. Now the actor has one last chance to maintain this sterling record as she, shortlisted for Best Drama Actress for “Ozark” for the third time in a row, has never triumphed for playing Wendy Byrde on the Netflix series and contends for its fourth and final season this year.

This is the first year in which Linney, who was recognized solely for acting for the second and third seasons of “Ozark” in 2019 and 2020, snagged an additional nomination for the gritty crime series: Best Drama Series as a co-executive producer. These dual bids bring her grand total to nine,...

Jason Bateman took home his first and to date only Emmy three years ago — for directing the opener of “Ozark’s” second season. Even though the multihyphenate is primarily known as an actor, he has yet to win an Emmy for acting, losing twice for “Arrested Development” in Best Comedy Actor, once for “The Outsider” in Best Drama Guest Actor (2020) and three times for “Ozark” itself in Best Drama Actor (2018-2020). Will he, nominated for the fourth time in a row for leading “Ozark” as cartel launderer Marty Byrde, finally get his due from the TV academy’s acting branch this year?

His Best Drama Actor nomination is one of three he pocketed for the fourth and final season of the Netflix series this year, earning the other two as one of the gritty drama’s executive producers as part of its third consecutive drama series nom, and as the...

It’s been four years since Cameron Crowe first teased an Almost Famous musical when he dropped a 20-second video of composer Tom Kitt playing piano, while William Miller’s signature yellow post-its displayed clues on the wall. Now, Crowe is officially bringing his beloved film to Broadway, slated to open at Manhattan’s Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on Nov. 3.

Crowe first announced the adaptation in the fall of 2018, and it opened the following year in his hometown of San Diego, California (Joni Mitchell made a rare appearance at the...

Mj and A Strange Loop saw Tony Award glory translate into box office surges in the week after the June 12 ceremony, with Mj leaping by 216,921 over the previous week’s take to a huge 1,660,978. A Strange Loop grossed 845,313 for the week ending June 19, a jump of 168,998 over the previous week.

Both shows were virtual sellouts, with more than 99 of seats occupied in the week following their Tony wins

Another big winner of the week: The musical Six, which took home Tonys for original score and costumes and, as importantly if not more so, delivered a rousing performance during the ceremony. For its seven performances,...

[Warning: The above interview and following story contain spoilers about Season 4 of “Ozark.” Watch and read at your own risk.]

There is no doubt that the fourth and final season of “Ozark” was going to be the show’s most ambitious undertaking yet. For composers Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans, who received their career-first Emmy nominations for the Netflix drama’s third season in 2020, this meant they would have the chance to go bigger with their score — or so they thought. “I remember us saying, ‘It’s the fourth and final season — I wonder if we can push [the score] to get a little bigger than usual,'” recounts Bensi in a new webchat with Gold Derby (watch our exclusive video interview above). “I remember the answer coming back to us [being] like, ‘No, stay in the same world and add some new things, but really stay in the same world. We don’t need to depart from what we’ve been.'”

Even though...

While Laura Linney could finally nab her first Emmy for playing Wendy Byrde on “Ozark,” there is another way she can be rewarded for the Netflix drama this year: as the director of the fourth and final season’s 11th episode, “Pound of Flesh and Still Kickin’.” If submitted for this effort, her directorial debut, Linney could pull off a victory in a similar fashion to her co-star and onscreen hubby Jason Bateman, who still hasn’t earned an acting Emmy for the show but won directing when no one expected it in 2019.

Bateman was all the way down in sixth place in our odds when he won for the Season 2 opener, “Reparations.” But in retrospect, we shouldn’t have underestimated the eventual champ, who had built a ton of goodwill as one of the show’s stars, executive producers and main directors. By that point, he had directed six...

After almost five decades on the Broadway stage, Patti LuPone has won her third Tony Award for her featured performance in director Marianne Elliott’s revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Company.” She takes on the role of Joanne, originated and made famous by Elaine Stritch, whose rousing number “The Ladies Who Lunch” is one of the most famous in the American theatrical canon.

LuPone has performed the number on numerous occasions in the past decade. At Sondheim’s 80th birthday concert, she belted out the song while sharing a stage with Stritch herself, and she later played Joanne in a New York Philharmonic concert production of “Company” starring Neil Patrick Harris as Bobby; this production has reinvented the show with a female Bobbie at its center, played by Katrina Lenk. After swearing off performing in another musical after “War Paint” in 2017 due to how physically taxing they are, Elliott persuaded...

[Warning: The above interview and following story contain spoilers about Season 4 of “Ozark.” Watch and read at your own risk.]

Alfonso Herrera joined the cast of Netflix’s “Ozark” for its fourth and final season in the role of Javier “Javi” Elizonndro, a previously unseen member of the Navarro family who walks a fine line between being an obedient lieutenant and scheming to take over his uncle Omar’s (Felix Solis) cartel. Though his ruthless, murderous character could have easily been reduced to his villainous traits, it was important to the actor to imbue him with multifarious layers. “Once I was starting to create, or to build, this character, I understood, or I tried to see, that he was a very lonely guy,” Herrera tells Gold Derby in a new exclusive video interview (watch above). “He was a person that was rejected by his family, was rejected by his inner circle, his inner entourage of family. So… he created this shield of...

“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 sensation, and now 42 years later she could pick up the third Tony of her career for her featured performance in “Company,” a revival of Stephen Sondheim’s momentous 1970 musical that reimagines the show with a woman at its center — Katrina Lenk‘s Bobbie — rather than the original male Bobby. Below, see a list of all eight of Patti LuPone’s Tony nominations and her two wins.

See ‘Company’ returns to Broadway reimagined in a ‘sublime’ production that honors the late Stephen Sondheim’s ‘indelible’ score

LuPone leads the Featured Actress in a Musical race for her sensational turn as Joanne, the acerbic character who sings the anthem “The Ladies Who Lunch.” The actress has had a long history with the character and this legendary song in particular.

[Warning: The above interview contains spoilers about Season 4 of “Ozark.” Watch at your own risk.]

The fourth season of “Ozark” was a unique one — and that’s not just because it was the show’s farewell installment. It was also the Netflix drama’s longest season ever with 14 episodes and split into two seven-episode blocks that debuted on January 21 and April 29, respectively. “We thought of it as two different seasons, just because people were going to experience it that way,” Emmy-nominated showrunner and executive producer Chris Mundy tells Gold Derby in a new webchat. “When you pasted all [episodes] together, they had to make coherent sense… So, it was a little tricky. It’s one season, but it’s not, and it’s two seasons, but it’s not.” Watch our exclusive video interview above.

Instrumental in bringing about this cohesion is the seamless transition from Episode 7 (“Sanctified”) to 8 (“The Cousin of Death”), the latter of which is one of...

[Warning: The above interview contains spoilers about Season 4 of “Ozark.” Watch at your own risk.]

Before the fourth and final season of “Ozark,” Amanda Marsalis had directed only two episodes of the Netflix series, the Season 2 closer (“The Gold Coast”) and fifth episode of Season 3 (“It Came From Michoacán”). So, you can imagine that learning she would helm four episodes of the drama’s 14-episode farewell installment — whose two parts debuted on January 21 and April 29, respectively — elicited quite the response from the director. “Shock, gratitude, excitement and nausea,” she enumerates while describing her initial reaction to the news in a new exclusive video interview with Gold Derby (watch above).

Of the show’s last season, Marsalis directed Episodes 8 (“The Cousin of Death”), 9 (“”Pick a God and Pray”), 12 (“Trouble the Water”) and 13 (“Mud”). Out of these, Episode 8 particularly stands out as it not only is the opener of Part 2 but also breaks with the show’s usual style and structure.

Even in its fourth and final season — whose two parts debuted January 21 and April 29, respectively — Netflix’s “Ozark” saw numerous additions to its already sprawling cast. “Each season of ‘Ozark’ is almost like starting over because you kill so many people that you have these huge new characters that are going to carry big arcs,” casting director Alexa Fogel tells Gold Derby in an exclusive video interview (watch above).

Indeed, after the third season saw Janet McTeer‘s Helen Pierce and Tom Pelphrey‘s Ben Davis, among other characters, bite the dust, the fourth introduces a slew of new faces. Those include Alfonso Herrera as Javier “Javi” Elizonndro and Veronica Falcón as Herrera’s onscreen mother, Camila Elizonndro, who thereby play the nephew and sister, respectively, of cartel boss Omar Navarro (Felix Solis). “There are so many outrageous things that take place [on the show], but the style has to be completely naturalistic,...

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 think were the cruelest snubs, most pleasant surprises, and analyze how this set of nominees may change the Tony race as we head towards the June 12th ceremony. Watch the full video above.

While our panel was happy overall with how much the Tony nominators were able to spread the wealth this year, not every production made the cut. Sam noted that “all the plays were standouts this year,” but five stellar new works were totally skunked: “Birthday Candles,” “Chicken & Biscuits,” “Is This a Room,” “Pass Over,” and “Thoughts of a Colored Man.” There’s not enough slots for everyone, but when we saw so many categories expand due to ties in voting (“how many ties can you have?...

Bobby, 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 musical revival of the year and the fourth largest tally of any show. It earned citations for Best Revival, three for performers Matt Doyle, Patti LuPone, and Jennifer Simard, Best Director for Marianne Elliott, and four others.

Glaringly absent from this well-deserved list, though, is star Katrina Lenk, who plays the musical’s central character Bobbie; Elliott has reimagined the piece with a woman at the fore. If this snub seems egregious, it’s one that productions of “Company” past have had to contend with before.

See the complete list of 2022 Tony Awards nominees

Just as Bobby and Bobbie are notoriously unlucky in love, the character has never been particularly lucky with Tony nominators, dating way back to 1971. The very...

Refresh for updates… Patti LuPone, Billy Crystal, Ruth Negga, Jaquel Spivey and Mary-Louise Parker are expressing their thanks for today’s Tony Award nominations, with LuPone and Negga extending appreciations to her co-stars who were not nominated.

“We are led every night by the beautiful, soulful, and extremely talented Katrina Lenk,” LuPone said in a statement. Negga said she is “deeply indebted” to co-star Daniel Craig. (See their comments below.)

Monday morning’s Tony Awards nominations delivered a reassuringly familiar sign of springtime after two-plus years of Covid upheaval on Broadway, and the reactions of nominees reflect that sentiment. Pulitzer winner A Strange Loop led the field with 11 nominations, followed by Mj and Paradise Square with 10 apiece.

Winners will be announced Sunday, June 12 at the 75th annual Tony Awards on CBS and Paramount+, live from Radio City Music Hall in New York, with Ariana DeBose hosting.

The following are initial reactions provided to Deadline.

It's hard to believe it, but Ozark has wrapped its run.

After four seasons of a pressure cooker-like environment, the Netflix juggernaut wrapped its run late last month.

Naturally, there are questions about whether the franchise could continue with a spinoff.

“It’s definitely something that people have talked about a bunch,” showrunner Chris Munday shared in an interview with TV Line.

“There’s nothing definitive. We’re lucky that people seem to really like the show so there’s obviously going to be some interest there.”

The shocking finale said goodbye to fan-favorite Ruth (Julia Garner), who was killed off.

Given the interest in that character, there had been rumblings pre-finale that Garner could reprise the role in a new series.

“There are still ways to stay inside the show and revisit things,” Mundy said.

“I’m sure people probably would’ve been happier if Ruth was out there.

Some of the biggest names in film, television and the Broadway stage won’t be making the coveted pilgrimage to Radio City Music Hall this June when the 75th annual Tony Awards are handed out, as such high-profile performers as Daniel Craig, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, Katrina Lenk, Beanie Feldstein, Jane Lynch and Patrick J. Adams were not among the nominations announced Monday morning.

And at least as surprising as the snubs was the strong showing of Paradise Square, a musical that received fairly mixed reviews and has been struggling at the box office since opening April 3. The musical, a comeback for producer Garth H. Drabinsky, scored 10 nominations (tying with Mj and second only to A Strange Loop). Among Paradise Square‘s are Best Musical, Joaquina Kalukango’s nom for Best Lead Actress/Musical, and A.J. Shively’s nom for Featured Actor/Musical.

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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 nominations snubs was Katrina Lenk, who plays Bobbie in Marianne Elliott’s reimagining of the late Stephen Sondheim’s “Company.” The production merited nine nominations, including Best Musical Revival, Best Director, Best Featured Actor (Matt Doyle), and Best Featured Actress. Lenk previously won a Tony Award for her performance in Best Musical-winner “The Band’s Visit.”

See the complete list of 2022 Tony Awards nominees

Original musical “Flying Over Sunset” also underperformed. Even though the shuttered production scored four nominations, including Best Actress (Carmen Cusack) and Best Score, it missed out on the top category of Best Musical and Best Book for librettist James Lapine.

The star-studded revival of William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” also missed out on a number of key nominations. Director Sam Gold...

Updated with full list of nominees: Tony Awards nominations were announced Monday morning, and Strange Loop, Michael R. Jackson’s autobiographical musical starring Jaquel Spivey, took the most nominations with 11, while Mj, the Michael Jackson musical, and Paradise Square each earned 10. Company took nine, The Lehman Trilogy and Six garnered eight, and both for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf and Girl From the North Country took seven.

With six nominations were The Music Man and The Skin of Our Teeth, with Clyde’s, Hangmen and Mr. Saturday Night taking five.

At four nominations were American Buffalo, Flying Over Sunset, Take Me Out, and Trouble in Mind. With three nominations were Caroline, or Change, Dana H., How I Learned to Drive, Macbeth, Potus and Skeleton Crew. Taking single noms were Diana, The Musical, Funny Girl, Lackawanna Blues, The Minutes, Mrs. Doubtfire and Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite.

Two 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 seven bids apiece when the nominations are announced on Monday, May 9. Original musical “A Strange Loop” will likely earn at least six nominations. “The Lehman Trilogy” will likely lead the new plays with at least four bids, and revivals “Take Me Out” and “Trouble In Mind” will also earn four or more bids each, too.

These official odds are derived from 2022 Tony predictions by our Experts who write about theatre year-round, our in-house team of Editors, and all Users who make up the largest (and often savviest) bloc of predictors.

Below, we break down the predicted nominees by show, ranked by the number of nominations. Make or edit your own predictions before the nominations are unveiled on Monday morning.

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Broadway 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 has you unsure as to what shows, actors, and creatives to predict for the Tony Awards nominations, check out our racetrack odds below for all of the top categories. The nominees will be announced on May 9 and the ceremony will occur on June 12.

These official odds for the Tonys are derived from the predictions of our Experts who write about theatre year-round, our in-house team of Editors, and all Users who make up the largest (and often savviest) bloc of predictors.

Below, see our 2022 Tony Awards predictions in 17 of the 25 categories. Make or edit your own predictions before the nominations are unveiled on Monday morning.

Musicals

Best Musical

A Strange Loop – 4/1

Six – 9/2

Girl From the North Country – 11/2

Mr. Saturday Night – 13/2

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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 older as Buddy Young, Jr., a stand-up and television comedian in his 70s looking to resuscitate his career and rescue the relationships he had scorched on his path to success. For the musical stage adaptation, which opened at the Nederlander Theatre on April 27, Crystal gets to act his age for the majority of the proceedings, occasionally playing younger for the flashback scenes.

Featuring a book by the original screenwriters and a score by Jason Robert Brown and Amanda Green, “Mr. Saturday Night” stars Crystal, David Paymer – who reprises his role from the movie – Randy Graff, Shoshana Bean, Chasten Harmon, and others. Tony Award-winner John Rando (“Urinetown”) directs.

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This article contains spoilers for Ozark season 4.

Throughout the entirety of Ozark, Marty and Wendy Byrde (Jason Bateman and Laura Linney) have repeatedly found themselves in unfathomable danger, only to escape it by throwing someone else under the bus. Their indirect death count is impossibly high, with most of the people who oppose them ending up in the grave. Ruth Langmore (Julia Garner), perhaps the biggest victim of the Byrde family’s wrath, realizes this and continually calls them a poison to everyone they touch. She warns people to stay away from the Byrde’s at all costs, something she is never able to do herself.

In fact, Ruth’s hotheadedness actually ends up being her downfall in this final seven-episode stretch of the show. When we last saw the show’s most popular character, she was headed out of the Byrde home with a shotgun, ready to take down...

“It feels like a completely new production,” explains “Company” star Katrina Lenk. The Tony Award-winning actress (“The Band’s Visit”) plays Bobbie in director Marianne Elliott’s envisioned staging of Stephen Sondheim’s classic. Switching the gender of the central role helped Lenk avoid feeling pressure about playing a role many formidable male talents have taken on before her. “We were really approaching it as a brand new piece,” she says, “so all the pressure went away because it didn’t really apply.” Watch the exclusive video interview above.

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Lenk is particularly interested in how changing the character from Bobby to Bobbie allows for a close examination of what it is like to exist as a woman in today’s world. She is asking herself questions like “how do women perform femininity?” and wondering why they have “a tendency to people and have an outward focus on other people’s needs.

For all those people who have been dying to hear the music that makes you dance once again on a Broadway stage, “Funny Girl” has finally returned after a 58-year absence. Beanie Feldstein steps into the role of performer Fanny Brice, which made Barbra Streisand a sensation decades ago. Ramin Karimloo is her gambling love interest Nicky Arnstein, and Jane Lynch her mother. Boasting a classic score by Jule Styne and Bob Merrill, this production features Harvey Fierstein’s revisions to Isobel Lennart’s original book, and Michael Mayer‘s direction. “Funny Girl” opened at the August Wilson Theatre on April 24.

With such high expectations for the long-awaited return of this musical theatre favorite, it would have been hard for any production to hit the mark, and most critics think this “Funny Girl” missed. In one of the positive notices, Mark Kennedy (Associated Press) calls Feldstein’s interpretation of Brice “earthy,...

The date of the 75th Tony Award nominations announcement has been delayed a week to Monday, May 9, Tony Award Productions announced on Friday.

Additionally, eligibility for shows opening in the 2021-2022 season has been extended to Wednesday, May 4.

“Due to the challenges that Broadway has faced in recent weeks, and in an effort to allow nominators to see Tony eligible shows, we have decided to extend the deadline for eligibility requirements. Therefore, the Tony nominations will now take place on Monday, May 9th,” Charlotte St. Martin, president of the Broadway league and Heather Hitchens, president and CEO of the American Theatre Wing, said in a statement to TheWrap.

The nominations announcement will take place on the Tony Awards official You Tube page, at 9:00 a.m. Et/6:00 a.m Pt on May 9.

The meet the nominees event will now take place on Thursday, May 12.

The ceremony, which will be...

“It’s a true revival in the sense that it is taking existing material and making something new with it,” explains Claybourne Elder of the gender-bent Broadway revival of “Company.” Elder portrays Andy (April in the original version of the show), a hysterically dim-witted but sincere lover of Katrina Lenk’s Bobbie. The actor reveals that swapping the genders of the characters in this Stephen Sondheim musical, helps shape the story in a way contemporary audiences can appreciate. As the actor describes the events in his life which lead him to this point in his career, it feels like destiny that he should star in this particular production. Watch the exclusive video interview above.

Elder admits that as a young theater kid, he would sing along to cast albums at home, but he would only be singing “the fun parts.” Little Red in “Into the Woods,” Dot in “Sunday in the Park With George,...