2,695 stories by "Gordon Cox"
What's the collective noun for a group of Betties? Based on Jen Silverman's play, "Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties," perhaps "a rage of Betties" would suit. When these five Betties g…
Andy Karl knows a thing or two about Broadway musicals based on movies after playing the UPS guy in “Legally Blonde,” the Italian Stallion himself in “Rocky,” and the…
It’s one thing to be told that the Off Broadway musical “Be More Chill” is a viral hit on the internet. It’s quite another to experience the hype live and in the room…
Every night, just as Summer: The Donna Summer Musical is ending, the party's just beginning. That's how it feels, anyway, when the rousing curtain call " a buoyant, full-cast rendition of Do…
It was Monday morning in a Manhattan recording studio, and the cast of Summer: The Donna Summer Musical knew they'd made magic. The performers and musicians had all gathered on their first d…
When the 1990 movie comedy "Pretty Woman" catapulted Julia Roberts to stardom, it was widely reported that Disney and late director Garry Marshall had tweaked J.F. Lawton's downbeat prostitu…
Producer Ken Davenport has racked up an impressive collection of Tony Award nominations (and a couple of wins) for shows like "Once on This Island," "Kinky Boots," and "Spring Awakening."Â�…
Technology plays a major role onstage in “Be More Chill,” the high school-set musical that uses a brain altering super-computer — masquerading as a popularity drug ̵…
Since starting his tenure on “So You Think You Can Dance” 10 seasons ago, Spencer Liff has choreographed Broadway productions from “Falsettos” to “Hedwig and th…
Yes they can-can — they can transform Baz Luhrmann's 2001 absinthe-tinged fantasia "Moulin Rouge!" into a socko stage spectacular. The story's been strengthened in this splashy product…
From his unhinged Hamlet to a sympathetic Richard III, Mark Rylance has always been a great re-inventor of Shakespeare's key roles. Now, returning to the Globe in "Othello" after a few years…
Kwame Kwei-Armah and Shaina Taub's musicalized "Twelfth Night" is the kind of outdoor summer theater that transcends bad weather. Even if the skies crackle with lightning and showers s…
This might sound familiar to film buffs: A lying and philandering U.S. president suffers a debilitating stroke and is furtively replaced by a body double, who then foils the plot by honoring…
It's really hard to laugh when somebody's holding a gun to your head. That's the way this Go-Go's feels in “Head Over Heels,” an over-written, over-designed, and generally overdo…
Zachary Quinto’s got a big role on his bucket list — and it’s in a stage musical. Listen to this week's podcast for free below and at Apple Podcasts: On the latest episo…
Here are lyrics from a song in the new musical "This Ain't No Disco" that creatives Stephen Trask ("Hedwig and the Angry Inch") and Peter Yanowitz hope will make us yearn for the golden age …
In “Straight White Men,” Young Jean Lee's cutting but deeply humane satire about straight white male privilege and pain, Armie Hammer, Josh Charles and, in an especially heart-wr…
Fifty years after his play "Forty Years On," Alan Bennett is still pining for the England of old. Just as his first play lamented the slipping standards of an old public school and, by exten…
In Judaism, death is followed by the sitting of shiva. For seven days, seated mourners reflect on their loss. The ritual recurs throughout "The Lehman Trilogy," playwright Steffano Massino's…
In “Mary Page Marlowe,” Tracy Letts, the Tony-winning actor (“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”) and Pulitzer and Tony-winning playwright (“August: Osage C…
Ashes to ashes, Dusty to Dusty. Almost 20 years after her death, the loss of Dusty Springfield still stings on these shores. Sniffles ring out at the end of Jonathan Harvey's jukebox musical…
"Imperium" builds Rome in a day. Robert Harris' trilogy of novels charts the city's slide from a great civilization to a grim imperial power, as democracy buckles and dictatorship digs in. O…
The new jukebox bio-musical "The Cher Show" captures a good amount of the vibrant personality and genuinely admirable perseverance that make Cher the ultimate celebrity survivor. But lik…
Think Broadway is big now? Then get ready, because the boom is just beginning. So says Ken Davenport, the producer of the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of “Once On This Island,&#…
Just when you thought it was safe to go to the theater again without suffering through plays about straight couples caught up in parenting issues of interest to no one but themselves, along …
