2,696 stories by "Gordon Cox"
Last week's Broadway box office chart didn't give anyone much to talk about. And a lot of producers will tell you that there's nothing wrong with that. After all, with tourist-fueled sales c…
“Captain Phillips,” the Tom Hanks topliner directed by Paul Greengrass, will launch the 51st New York Film Festival. Film, a look at the 2009 hijacking of a U.S. ship by Somali p…
If you're going to make your directing debut under a harsh industry spotlight with minimal rehearsal time, it's smart to appropriate a world-famous production's concept and numerous veterans…
Not many things can unite Broadway and non-profit theaters with major league sports and mega-churches. But they're all part of the posse that has banded together for "Pardon the Interruption…
“Murder for Two,” a two-character spoof by Joe Kinosian (book & music) and Kellen Blair (book & lyrics) of an old-fashioned stage whodunit, is the first musical produced …
Producer Jeffrey Richards will reteam with scribe-actor Tracy Letts and helmer Pam MacKinnon to bring Letts’ 1993 play “Killer Joe” to Broadway for a production aiming to h…
"Barnum," the story of the legendary showman, takes place within the circus for which the title character became famous. Acrobatic choreography energizes Cy Coleman's all-the-fun-of-the-fair…
Hugh Jackman has been touting his upcoming Broadway tuner "Houdini" from "The Wolverine" red carpets, and even if definite plans are far from finalized, the possible 2014 bow mentioned by th…
For his lastest superheroic feat, Spider-Man has endowed Broadway theatergoers with the extraordinary ability to reserve tickets and pay for them later. It might not sound like much. But the…
How much of a boost did Jane Lynch give to the box office at the revival of "Annie" on Broadway? About $175,000 a week, to judge from last week's Rialto B.O. charts. "Glee" star Lynch, who p…
Broadway observers can be forgiven for being skeptical when Disney Theatrical Prods. says it's taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the latest Mouse House-affiliated stage outing, "The Jung…
When the off-network run of NBC skein "Smash" launches tonight, the Ovation network will be doing something NBC couldn't: Banking on Broadway. Differences of scale between Big Four net NBC a…
With new plays thin on the ground for the 2013-14 Broadway season, Manhattan Theater Club has lined up one to watch, reteaming scribe John Patrick Shanley, who wrote Pulitzer winner "Doubt,"…
With Fantasia Barrino's toplining stint in upcoming stage musical "After Midnight" now confirmed, producers have locked in the Broadway return of the only "American Idol" alum to drive box o…
The annual comedy and music benefit "Stand-Up for Heroes" gets an upgrade as part of the tenth annual New York Comedy Festival, moving from the Beacon Theater to the larger Theater at Madiso…
Trepidation is in the air. Crepuscular lighting and looming, gloomy sound envelop promenading audiences seeking mysterious stories played out in labyrinthine corridors, crannies and curated …
With holiday stage productions now nailing down Yuletide plans, it's beginning not to look a lot like Christmas on Broadway this year. Whereas last year's holiday season saw an influx of mis…
Summertime looked a lot like Christmas on Broadway last week. Not because of the grosses "Â which, while robust, didn't approach the stratospheric heights of the year-end holidays "Â but…
For Broadway's really big hits, the mega-bucks don't come from a show's outpost on the Main Stem " they come from all the title's incarnations around the world. Proving the point: The jugger…
After wending its way through the international festival circuit since its 2007 debut, “Monkey: Journey to the West” has arrived at Lincoln Center, which is running this eye-popp…
If two "Macbeths" is company, is three a crowd? That's a question Broadway types have started to wonder in the wake of glowing reviews for the Kenneth Branagh-toplined revival of "Macbeth…
Who says July 4 is bad for Broadway box office? Not spring openers "Kinky Boots," "Motown" and "Matilda," which all hit best-yet tallies in a frame that can sometimes be a rough one for Rial…
It can be tough to make it to Broadway banking on straight men:Â The producer of the stage adaptation of Tucker Max's frat-boys-behaving-badly chronicle "I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell" ha…
It's become a formula for Broadway success: Pick a well-known play, cast a star, limit the run to drive up demand and watch box office take off. But as Broadway's current crop of plays now a…
Veteran Gotham legiter Jodi Schoenbrun Carter has hung out her own shingle, launching 1022m Management and Marketing, an outfit that aims to match old-school talent management to new-media b…
