2,689 stories by "Gordon Cox"
The set's a bit grander and the music sounds richer, but success hasn't spoiled this embraceable musical fable about the surprising friendships that bloom in the middle of a political desert…
Teachers who have already had Dennis (Ki Hong Lee) in class agree on one thing:Â the kid scares them. Like some disgruntled teenager planning to shoot up his school, Dennis dresses all in…
A Bee Gees stage musical is on the way, with Universal Pictures’ theater division, Universal Theatrical Group, pacting to develop a production based on the life story and hit tunes of …
Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and original star of "Hamilton," will return to the title role when the Broadway smash plays a three-week run in Puerto Rico in early 2019. Miranda, who is Pu…
Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and original star of “Hamilton,” will return to the title role when the Broadway smash plays a three-week run in Puerto Rico in early 2019. Mirand…
Bill de Blasio is cruising to an easy victory in the race for mayor of New York City, setting up a second term for the incumbent Democrat who faced weak opposition at the polls. With just un…
Stephen Flaherty wasn’t sure he had permission to write “Once On This Island.” So says the Broadway composer in the latest episode of Stagecraft, Variety‘s theater po…
Amy Schumer made a big-money debut at the Broadway box office last week, playing to capacity crowds in the initial previews of the play in which she stars, “Meteor Shower.” Schum…
Kelli O’Hara will star in a new Broadway revival of “Kiss Me, Kate,” playing one of the lead roles in a Roundabout Theater Company production set for spring 2019. O’H…
The tepid tone and low energy level of "Illyria" would have us believe that the birth of the New York Shakespeare Festival was a walk in the park " Central Park, that is, where Joseph Papp c…
“Hello Again,” the 1994 Michael John LaChiusa musical that hits screens next week in a new film adaptation, is expanding its reach to more than 230 cinemas for the movie’s …
Maybe, someday, we can live down the 1980s. But not any day soon, if Ayad Akhtar has anything to do with it. The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright ("Disgraced") returns with poisoned pen and…
Matt Bomer will make his Broadway debut (following a one-night-only appearance in “8”)Â in “The Boys in the Band,” a new revival of the landmark 1968 drama to be di…
David Fincher ordered Jonathan Groff to stop smiling. Repeatedly. Broadway favorite Groff (“Hamilton,” “Spring Awakening”) tells the behind-the-scenes tale in the …
Halloween weekend is usually pretty frightful at the Broadway box office, what with all the costumes parties and trick-or-treating that keep theatergoers — particularly family audience…
Emma Rice is an old-fashioned romantic " no doubt about it. When she brought “Brief Encounter” to Broadway back in 2010, the whole stage seemed to swoon, as lovers were knocked s…
“So Long Boulder City,” the solo stage spoof inspired by the recent Oscar contender “La La Land,” has lined up an Off Broadway run in December following a well-receiv…
Donald Trump and Michael Moore dueled on Twitter over Moore’s recent Broadway show, with Trump taking a potshot at Moore’s “The Terms of My Surrender” in the midst of…
London has a brand new theatre in The Bridge " not only the biggest to be built here in 20 years, but the first new commercial playhouse of its size in 80. Dreamed up by former National T…
Julie Taymor had harsh words for Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul with whom she worked on her 2002 film “Frida.” “I think he should go to jail,” Taymor sai…
Clive Owen returns to Broadway in David Henry Hwang's "M. Butterfly," a revised version of the 1988 drama about a French diplomat who was caught in a scandalous affair with a Chinese opera s…
New York’s Museum of Modern Art has set the initial lineup for The Contenders, its annual screenings of awards-season buzzmagnets, opening the series in November with Martin McDonagh&#…
Ubisoft, the French company behind videogames including “Assassin’s Creed” and “Rayman Raving Rabbids,” will expand into the live entertainment market with R…
Clint Black, the country music star who’s sold more than 20 million albums worldwide, is at work on a Christmas musical for the stage, with a theater industry reading of the new show s…
There's a lot of professional pizzazz assembled on the Manhattan Theater Club stage for "The Portuguese Kid," the world premiere of the new play written and directed by John Patrick Shanley.…
