2,696 stories by "Gordon Cox"
Believe the buzz.  ”Choir Boy,” the small but mighty coming-of-age play by Tarell Alvin McCraney ("The “Brother/Sister Plays") that melted frosty British hearts at th…
How drunk do you have to be to laugh yourself stupid at “I Hope They Serve Beer On Broadway”?  Christopher Carter Sanderson’s raunchy adaptation of “the literar…
With a history of infusing classic tales with fresh theatricality, auteur-director Mary Zimmerman ("Metamorphoses") is both a natural choice to adapt a Disney film to the stage and a nearly …
Broadway's millionaires' club expanded to a full dozen members last week, with a whopping twelve shows pulling in more than $1 million each in a robust summer frame. It wasn't so long ago th…
Steven Levenson raises some Big Issues in “The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin.”   We’re talking about weighty matters like crime and punishment, guilt and…
With the recent announcement by U.S. Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) of his intention to introduce the Stage Act of 2013, the legit industry may be one step closer to earning an IRS write-o…
Andrew Lloyd Webber has a new musical lined up for a West End world preem, and because it's a new project from the creator of some of Broadway's most enduring hits, it's big news. But given …
Fresh off his Kickstarter success in funding a film follow-up to "Garden State," Zach Braff has booked his Broadway debut in the upcoming musical adaptation of "Bullets Over Broadway." As wi…
With musicals "After Midnight" and "A Night with Janis Joplin" now booked for fall runs, Broadway's singing a familiar song. A whole slew of them, in fact. Catalog musicals "Â that is, tun…
Drama has never been central to "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." Roald Dahl's story and the two so-so movie versions used vivid prose or super-saturated-color visuals to disguise the lac…
Who says there's only one Tony Award that means anything at the box office? With Broadway sales riding a late-June swell of holiday visitors, a good half-dozen shows logged best-ever tallies…
A Chinese restaurant deliveryman who speaks limited English is trapped in an elevator for 81 hours. This might not sound like the most natural hero for a musical, but "Stuck Elevator," getti…
You don’t have to be British to lose your composure and howl with laughter at “The Explorers,” a witty spoof of all those bold Victorian adventurers who ravaged foreign lan…
There's barely a writer alive who is the best possible director of his or her own work: An outside eye can spot the dramatic and structural flaws the writer cannot or will not see. "The Nigh…
Frank Langella will topline a new production of "King Lear" set to bow at the U.K.'s Chichester Festival Theater this fall prior to a early 2014 run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Product…
The resurgence of the 1980s Brit megamusical continues, with producer Cameron Mackintosh locking in a West End revival of “Miss Saigon” that will open at the Prince Edward The…
One of the key differences between London and Broadway theatergoers is that Brits don't applaud the first entrance of a star. But helmer Michael Grandage is taking no chances. He whisks Dani…
Take a good look at Hamish Linklater and Jesse Tyler Ferguson, the clown princes who are making a dazzling spectacle of themselves in Daniel Sullivan’s madcap version of “The Com…
There's a drinks trolley downstage right. Good grief "Â where are we, the 1930s? Yes. But the cunning new play "Bracken Moor," a cross between a thunderingly old-fashioned family drama and…
The familiar faces aren't just on Broadway next season: Off Broadway's 2013-14 lineup has shaped up to include parts for Maggie Gyllenhaal and Mandy Patinkin, among other recognizable names …
Talk about shows that appeal to niche audiences!  Daniel Pearle’s new play, “A Kid Like Jake,” should captivate yuppie parents from upscale urban neighborhoods who ar…
Summer tourism and the PR boost of the Tony Awards combined to land 11 Broadway shows in the millionaires' club last week, with the four trophies scored by "Pippin" helping that revival to b…
Hot on the heels of his fourth well-received stint as Tony host, Neil Patrick Harris has locked in a Broadway return with a spring 2014 production of John Cameron Mitchell and Steven Trask&#…
For a title that's famously cursed, legiters sure are saying "Macbeth" a lot these days. Lincoln Center Theater's upcoming Broadway staging of the Scottish play, toplined by Ethan Hawke and …
The Tony Awards Administration committee has decided to open up eligibility for its annual Regional Theater Award to New York legit companies. Kudo, the recipient of which is selected every …
