2,695 stories by "Gordon Cox"
Gloria Steinem got a mid-show standing ovation at the Broadway opening night of Michael Moore’s “The Terms of My Surrender,” after the feminist icon made a rousing surprise…
The theater is something of a religion, and the venerable Belasco Theater does look a little like a church. So, professional kvetch Michael Moore and his savvy director, Michael Mayer, made …
Suddenly, a lot of Broadway is wondering: What’s Verified Fan? That’s because two of this season’s most hotly anticipated shows — beginning with Bruce SpringsteenR…
Confirming weeks of rumors, Bruce Springsteen has officially locked in the details of a Broadway run this fall, setting an eight-week engagement for an intimate concert at the Walter Kerr Th…
The Broadway musical “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812” will close Sept. 3, following a turbulent couple of weeks that saw the show engulfed in a controversy over a la…
Barbara Cook, the golden-age Broadway ingenue who became a beloved cabaret and concert performer in the second act of her career, has died. She was 89. Her son, Adam LeGrant, confirmed toÂ�…
Last-minute business was the driver at the Broadway box office last week, where the biggest gains were reported at “Indecent,” the play that closed Sunday, and at “Kinky Bo…
Didn't we already see "Groundhog Day" onstage this year? Or is "A Parallelogram" playwright Bruce Norris' private little joke? Just kidding. Both shows fiddle around with the concept of …
Some things are best left in the past, and "Apologia," Alexi Kaye Campbell's ambivalent examination of baby-boomer morality and second-wave feminism is one of them. Written just after the fi…
Carrie Coon, the “Fargo” and “The Leftovers” star who’s currently in the race at this year’s Emmy Awards, will lead the cast of “Mary Jane,” a…
Seven members of the West End company of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” will open the Broadway production in the spring, including Olivier winners Jamie Parker, Noma Dumezwe…
Who'd have thought that the Rude Mechanicals would rescue a floundering production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and turn it into a giddy delight? Galvanized by Danny Burstein's open-hearte…
Michael Moore got off to a promising start at the Broadway box office last week as the left-leaning provocateur’s new solo show, “The Terms of My Surrender,” played to near…
Despite Hollywood’s rising awareness of diversity issues and the growing movement in support of inclusivity, there has been little year-on-year rise in inclusion in films released in 2…
Mandy Patinkin has decided to drop out of Broadway’s “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812” just days after he was announced to join the cast, and before he even set…
The more we understand, the less we understand. As human knowledge increases, so does individual ignorance. Every new discovery brings new things to fear. These are the paradoxes that “…
“Mean Girls,” the musical version of the 2004 teen comedy, has locked in its cast ahead of a fall premiere in Washington, D.C. that stands poised to launch the show to Broadway, …
"Bob Dylan: the Musical," or something more sophisticated? Picking his way through the legendary songwriter's back catalogue, Irish playwright Conor McPherson has come up with a portrait of …
Don't hold your breath for an aisle seat. Theatergoers in New York this summer are crouching on the floor in a simulated air raid, sirens blaring. Or they're standing in a stairwell, watchin…
Money can't buy you class. Australian director Benedict Andrews gives Tennessee Williams' inheritance drama "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" a twist for the Trump era: Gone are the cream suits and vi…
The addition of a star to a long-running Broadway show doesn’t always pay off — but sometimes it does, as the summertime stint of Brendon Urie in “Kinky Boots” has re…
In the movies, Batman is a loner with a dark demeanor, Iron Man is a wealthy industrialist and Captain America is a superhero stalwart, using his mighty shield to defend justice. In the comi…
Josh Lucas will star opposite Uma Thurman in “The Parisian Woman,” the upcoming Broadway production of a play by “House of Cards” creator Beau Willimon. The actor (&#…
Bette Midler returned to “Hello, Dolly!” last week, and she brought $1.5 million with her to the Broadway box office. “Hello, Dolly!” ($2,232,162) had seen its sales …
“Dear Evan Hansen,” the Broadway musical that last month won six Tony Awards including the top trophy for new musical, has recouped its $9.5 million capitalization costs about ei…
