2,695 stories by "Gordon Cox"
“Star Wars: The Last Jedi” actor Adam Driver will return to Broadway in 2019, starring in a new production of the Lanford Wilson play “Burn This” to be directed by Mi…
Stories speak volumes in the playwright Anne Washburn's work. In "Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play," she submitted an episode of “The Simpsons” to 70 years of hand-me-down distort…
Chrissy Metz, the “This Is Us” star who’s currently up for a trophy at the Golden Globes, will lead the cast of a new production of Neil LaBute play “Fat Pig,̶…
“Death Becomes Her” is becoming a musical, with Universal Theatrical Group developing a stage adaptation of the 1992 Robert Zemeckis film and Broadway favorite Kristin Chenoweth …
John Leguizamo learned a lot in order to prepare for his new Broadway solo outing, “Latin History for Morons.” But his biggest takeaway? “I am a true ghetto nerd, is the re…
Broadway’s got the beat: “Head Over Heels,” the musical that takes it score from the catalog of the band The Go-Go’s, has mapped out its road to New York, with a San …
The Broadway box office got a nice jolt last week, with Bette Midler’s final weeks driving up prices at “Hello, Dolly!,” Bruce Springsteen returning after a week off and Ma…
Chloe Sevigny plays a sexy-hippie drug addict like a pro in Seth Zvi Rosenfeld's unfocused new play, “Downtown Race Riot.” But she also gracefully shows us the better side …
Seven years on, Syria's civil war is still raging. Its death toll is nudging half a million, and ten times as many people have been displaced. For those that remain, conflict is the new norm…
"True is what happens," says a confidant Russian Red Army captain to a journalist who is having a difficult time describing things he has seen, be it the night sky or a war atrocity. "False …
Back in 1988, the Broadway play “M. Butterfly” played like “The Crying Game” — four years before the Neil Jordan film was even released. “In the original …
Di Glazer has been named the co-head of the theater department at ICM, where she’ll share the post with the agency’s veteran department chief Patrick Herold. Glazer will work wit…
The Broadway League, the trade association of Broadway producers, have brought a legal complaint against the New York theater industry’s biggest casting directors, branding the casting…
Children should feel free to take their parents to Tina Landau's psychedelically inspired version of the whimsical kiddie cartoon show that's been making a fortune for Nickelodeon since 1999…
Peter Martins, the artistic director of New York City Ballet and an instructor at School of American Ballet, has been accused of sexual harassment, and suspended from teaching his weekly cla…
Will “Hello, Dolly!” keep going up, up and up this holiday season? It looks poised to, with the ultra-hot revival moving into the final weeks of Tony-winning star Bette Midler…
Armie Hammer — one of the stars of “Call Me By Your Name,” the buzzy film that looks poised to make a run at the Oscars — has lined up a Broadway debut this summer in…
The ungainly in-the-round stage of Broadway’s Circle in the Square is put to imaginative use in director Michael Arden's inspired revival of “Once On This Island,” the 1990…
Justin Huff, a casting director who has been involved in Broadway shows including 2013 Tony champ “Kinky Boots,” has been fired from his position at prominent casting agency Tels…
Writer Beau Willimon made his mark on the stage with "Farragut North," which shape-shifted into the film "Ides of March," starring George Clooney, and led to his role as the creator of Netfl…
Israel Horovitz, the longtime playwright-director who helmed the 2014 film "My Old Lady," has been accused of sexual misconduct by nine women. The women came forward in a report in the New Y…
Israel Horovitz, the longtime playwright-director who helmed the 2014 film “My Old Lady,” has been accused of sexual misconduct by nine women. The women came forward to the New Y…
Steve Martin has a flair for surreal comedy — a style that suits “Meteor Shower,” his new play about the existential mischief caused one night in 1993 when a deluge of mete…
Julie Taymor’s production of “M. Butterfly,” which recently opened on Broadway with Clive Owen in the cast, has set its closing date, with producers announcing the show wil…
The young actor Ethan Slater has been involved in the "SpongeBob Squarepants" stage musical since its very first workshop five years ago. But back then, he had no idea he was auditioning for…
