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Winners of the 2025 Drama League Awards were announced today in a ceremony hosted by Emmy-winning NY1 reporter Frank Dilella at the Ziegfeld Ballroom. In a competitive year for theater awards, both Maybe Happy Ending and Sunset Boulevard added important feathers to their caps on their march to the Tony Awards.

Nicole Scherzinger took home the Drama League’s highly coveted Distinguished Performance prize for her radical reinterpretation of Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. Actors can only win this catch-all performance award once in their careers.

The winner of this award repeats that victory at the Tonys more often than not. Last year, Sarah Paulson won the Drama League before clinching a Tony win for her role in the play Appropriate. Other recent Drama League winners who went on to win a Tony in the same year include Danny Burstein (Moulin Rouge!), Bryan Cranston (Network), Glenda Jackson (Three Tall Women), Ben Platt...

Cynthia Erivo will return to London’s West End in a stage production of Dracula.

In the production, Ervio will play 23 characters in Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Dracula, adapted and directed by Kip Williams, who envisioned the one-person The Picture of Dorian Gray, starring Sarah Snook. The production is set to play London’s Noël Coward Theatre starting Feb. 4, 2026.

This is the first time Erivo is returning to the stage since she starred in the 2015 Broadway revival of The Color Purple, after playing the role in the London production, and earning a Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award for her performance. Dracula will be her next project after the release of Wicked: For Good in November. She recently appeared in the season two premiere of Poker Face, where she played five characters.

In Dracula, Erivo will play a range of characters including solicitor Jonathan Harker and his fiancée Mina Murray,...

Exclusive: Wicked’s Cynthia Erivo will play Bram Stoker’s demonic vampire and 22 other roles in Dracula, a one-woman theatrical extravaganza set for next year in London’s West End, from the creatives and producers behind Sarah Snook’s Broadway and London triumph The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Stoker’s gothic shocker explores the dark corners of Victorian-age sexuality, fear and desire. The tale, first published in 1897, is both alluring and horrifying, full of terrifying and dreamlike imagery.

Dracula, adapted and directed by Kip Williams, marks Oscar-nominated Erivo’s return to the stage for the first time since her Tony Award-winning role as Celie in The Color Purple, which she starred in for two years in New York before exiting in January 2017. The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art-trained artist played Celie in London, and honed her craft in several plays and musicals in the UK before relocating to the U.

Welcome to Tony Talk, a column in which Gold Derby contributors Sam Eckmann and David Buchanan offer Tony Awards analysis. With only three months to go until the 2025 nominations are announced, we’ve reconvened for a retrospective on the plays from the first half of the Broadway season, during which a total of 14 new works and revivals have premiered of the anticipated 21 total that will be eligible.

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David Buchanan: Hi Sam! Last time we spoke, we talked about the embarrassment of riches of Broadway musicals and revivals that opened in recent months — from new works like Maybe Happy Ending to revivals Gypsy and Sunset Blvd. — and I feel like that’s equally if not more true for the plays from the fall. Although there are many more to come in March and April, we’ve already had blockbuster hits like Oh,...

The Invisible Raptor is heading to theaters and digital on December 6th, and we caught up with director Mike Hermosa for our latest Q&a. From the origins of this project to casting, VFX, and the on-set experience, we talk about it all below!

"After a top-secret experiment goes wrong, a hyper-intelligent invisible raptor escapes the lab and begins wreaking havoc in the surrounding neighborhood. When the creature’s identity is uncovered, it soon becomes clear that a disgraced paleontologist—alongside his ex-girlfriend, an unhinged amusement park security guard, and a local celebrity chicken farmer—is the town’s only hope for surviving the raptor’s ravenous rampage."

The Invisible Raptor definitely feels like a love letter to 80s and 90s classics. What were some of your foundational films from that era?

Mike Hermosa: The Invisible Raptor is absolutely a love letter to the classics of the 80s and 90s comedies.

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is highly regarded as one of the best classic novels of all time. The acclaim for the novel has resulted in numerous adaptations, with another one now in the works courtesy of Netflix. The latest adaptation will be titled The Grays and, according to Deadline, will tell "a contemporary take" on the Oscar Wilde classic, revolving around siblings Basil and Dorian Gray himself. Much like the source material and the various adaptations that have followed, the series will once again explore the obsession with eternal youth and beauty, but this time in a modern world.

The acclaimed 1891 novel was the only novel written by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. The story revolves around a portrait of Dorian Gray, painted by Basil, a "friend" in the novel, who is obsessed with his beauty. Believing that beauty is the only thing worth pursuing in life,...

Netflix is in the process of adapting “The Picture of Dorian Gray” into a modern TV series, TheWrap has learned.

The show, titled “The Grays,” will be produced by Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television, with “The Girls on the Bus” showrunner and EP Rina Mimoun serving as showrunner and executive producer, according to an individual with knowledge. Katie Rose Rogers will write the series.

As the team modernizes the Oscar Wilde novel, the series will center on siblings Basil and Dorian Gray as “The Grays” tackles the classic’s themes through the eyes of the modern beauty industry, according to Deadline, who first reported the news.

Representatives for Warner Bros. Television and Netflix declined to comment.

Mimoun and Rogers will executive produce the series alongside Rogers’ brother, Robbie Rogers, with whom she worked on “Fellow Travelers” and who has served as a producer on “All American” and an EP on “All American: Homecoming.

Exclusive: The Picture Of Dorian Gray is getting a TV series treatment with The Grays, which is in development at Netflix, Deadline has learned. It hails from Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television where the company is based. A rep for Netflix declined comment.

Written by Katie Rose Rogers, The Grays is a contemporary take on the Oscar Wilde classic about our fascination with eternal youth set against the backdrop of the modern beauty industry. In a twist on the gothic novel, the series revolves around siblings Basil and Doran Gray.

Fittingly, two of the project’s executive producers are siblings Katie Rose Rogers (Supergirl) and Robbie Rogers (All American), who worked together on the Emmy-nominated limited series Fellow Travelers. Also executive producing are Rina Mimoun, who serves as showrunner’ Lee Toland Krieger who is directing; as well as Berlanti Proids.’ Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and Leigh London Redman.

In the 1891 novel,...

This article contains plot spoilers for Critical Role “Campaign Three: Bells Hells.”

Critical Role’s current campaign, “Bells Hells,” isn’t the first time that inner-party conflict has come up for the cast. Beuregard (Marisha Ray) and Caleb (Liam O’Brien) fought over a magical bowl in The Mighty Nein campaign. Scanlan (Sam Riegel) left Vox Machina for an entire year. But where Bells Hells stands out above the rest is just how often its zany cast of characters find themselves at odds with one another, and how both the cast and the characters handle the conflict.

Bells Hells is certainly the most eclectic group of adventurers that the Critical Role cast has portrayed, and if you’ve kept up with the show for any amount of time, you know that that means this group is really out there. There’s Fresh Cut Grass a.k.a. Fcg (Sam Riegel), an...

Actor Jim Carrey had a massive year in 1994. Two of his most classic films, Dumb and Dumber and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, debuted in theaters. Yet Carrey's other 1994 movie, The Mask, is the one that needed his particular brand of comedy the most. The film was an early comic book adaptation -- before the "superhero" genre was well defined. While modern fans want accuracy to the comics, The Mask is an infinitely better film because it ignored its source material. And 30 years later, that's still true, even if it has some terribly dated moments.

Originally appearing in Dark Horse Presents #10, the character known as "The Masque" was created by Mike Richardson, but further developed by Mark Badger, Dough Mahnke, John Acudi and Chris Warner. However, the comics were dark and violent -- a kind of edgy that hasn't aged well. Richardson pitched the film adaptation as a horror piece. Instead,...

In 1993, Jim Carrey was still just that white guy on In Living Color, but by the end of 1994, he was king of the world. In one year, Carrey had three hit comedies that topped the box office: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective in February, The Mask in July and Dumb and Dumber in December. Each is great and nostalgic in its own right, but given the fact that The Mask turns 30 this week, we caught up with the film’s director, Chuck Russell, to talk about the film’s 30 greatest moments.

30 The Loaner

“There’s a Stanley Ipkiss inside all of us,” says Russell, referring to Carrey’s character in The Mask. “That was the beauty of the character. Life treats us like shit and humiliates us and seeing it through Stanley’s character is funny and charming the way Jim portrayed it. The loaner car he gets is an example of that.

There's a scene midway through Chuck Russell's 1994 comedy The Mask that stands out as an absolute comic masterstroke—zero CGI cartoon antics required. Stanley Ipkiss (Jim Carrey) squirms under the magnifying glass of Lt. Mitch Kellaway (Peter Riegert), the detective sizing up the lowly bank clerk in his dinky apartment.