2,689 stories by "Gordon Cox"
Fresh off the Tonys, from which their musical "Dear Evan Hansen" emerged with six trophies including best musical, songwriting duo Benj Pasek and Justin Paul have a horse in the Emmy race. I…
A.R. Gurney, the playwright who chronicled the foibles and mores of wealthy, white Anglo-Saxon protestants in plays such as “The Dining Room,” “The Cocktail Hour,” an…
“Indecent” became the third Broadway play to announce its closing in the wake of the Tony Awards, with the show now set to shutter June 25. The production — which earned go…
There weren't many surprises from this year's Tony Awards ceremony, which handed "Dear Evan Hansen" its expected win for best new musical and saw major acting trophies go to Ben Platt ("Dear…
About six million people watched the Tony Awards Sunday night on CBS — but a live audience of only about 6,000 caught the show from inside the room itself. Here’s what you missed…
Two plays that walked away empty-handed from the Tony Awards ceremony have posted closing notices, now that it’s become clear that the awards-season attention hasn’t provided eno…
The sins of the father revisited on the son — it's a stage staple that tracks back to Ancient Greece. From Captain Alving in Ibsen's “Ghosts” to Arthur Miller's arms-dealin…
Kirsten Childs’ high spirits are infectious. “Bella: An American Tall Tale,” a musical folk tale having its premiere at Playwrights Horizons, is her irresistible invitation…
The Public Theater’s new Free Shakespeare in the Park production of “Julius Caesar,” which has stirred controversy with its depiction of a Trump-like Caesar, opened Monday …
Brutus is a commanding figure in the Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park production of “Julius Caesar.” The wily Mark Antony also looms large. But the most fearso…
The Public Theater, the longtime New York nonprofit currently taking fire for its Free Shakespeare in the Park production of “Julius Caesar,” has responded to the outcry by refus…
In a year without a "Hamilton," the races for the 2017 Tony Awards had seemed fraught with unpredictably.
In a year without a “Hamilton,” the races for the 2017 Tony Awards had seemed fraught with unpredictably. But while there were a couple of dark horses (“Come From Away,R…
Access Entertainment, the banner launched last year by Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries, made headturning investments in film and TV right out of the gate. But theater is part of the …
There's a lot of struggling in the messy musical adaptation of Jules Feiffer's delightful young adult novel, premiering at Sag Harbor's Bay Street Theater in this summer enclave on Long Isla…
Broadway fortune tellers had it so easy last year: For every awards-season prediction, they could just point to “Hamilton.” In contrast, the 2017 race for the Tony Awards feels n…
A group of some of the most-employed casting directors in the New York theater industry led a rally in front of Radio City Music Hall Thursday morning as part of an ongoing public effort to …
“Cost of Living” is a bittersweet play by Martyna Majok about people who need other people to survive — some of them quite literally. It’s also about people who absol…
When hit Netflix series “13 Reasons Why” turned a spotlight on teen suicide and the challenges of responsibly telling stories about it, Broadway fans took note, because “De…
Patti LuPone, Kevin Kline, Bartlett Sher: There are plenty of Broadway veterans among this year's Tony nominees, but there are plenty of newbies on the list, too. In fact, several people wer…
The small town of Ashland, Ore., lies just over the California border in the forested foothills of the Siskiyou and Cascade mountain ranges. It has a population of 20,000, a bustling restaur…
As far back as last fall, there were those in the New York theater industry whispering that the new musical “Come From Away” might turn into the 2016-17 season’s sleeper su…
Cyndi Lauper will write the songs for a new stage musical adaptation of “Working Girl,” the hit 1988 screen comedy that starred Melanie Griffith. Fox Stage Productions, the studi…
Jason Alexander, the “Seinfeld” alum who won a 1989 Tony Award for “Jerome Robbins’ Broadway,” will return to the New York stage this fall, starring in the worl…
Psychodrama was a fun fad back in the over-sharing era of the 1970s.  Well, now therapeutic theater is back, raised from the dead by onetime “Friends” fave Matthew Perry, w…