2,695 stories by "Gordon Cox"
Powered by megahits like “Hamilton,” “Wicked” and “The Lion King,” Broadway box office hit a new high last week, ringing in just slightly less than $50 mi…
Alexander Hamilton never became president, but he was the king of the Broadway box office in 2016 as “Hamilton” nudged past Disney blockbuster “The Lion King” to top …
Michael Mayer and Tom Kitt are working on a new version of "As You Like It" in Tokyo. In the same city, Broadway stars like Ramin Karimloo and Emily Skinner all starred in the 2015 world pre…
George Bernard Shaw was adamant that "there are no villains" in his play "Saint Joan." Those who wrongly convicted Joan of Arc on heresy charges did so in good faith, he contended. But direc…
Dick Latessa, the Tony Award-winning actor who co-starred in the original Broadway production of “Hairspray,” has died. He was 87. The stage veteran, who also had screen credits …
There was no time like the present to catch “The Present” for New York theatergoers, who last week packed the house at Cate Blanchett’s Broadway debut. Oscar winner Blanche…
To watch all three of Richard Nelson’s plays about the Gabriel family in one sitting is to open yourself up to as much pain as pleasure. The pleasure is the total immersion in the live…
This holiday season, it's gratifying to encounter at least one Victorian-era entertainment that doesn't end with wassail, Tiny Tim and his crutch. "Fingersmith" — based on the novel th…
A nation divided with history hanging in the balance: Robert Icke's new version of Frederich Schiller's “Mary Stuart” reflects this runaway year. With a coin toss each night dete…
There's a Broadway-bound musical now rehearsing in Toronto whose creative team boasts an impressive 12 Tony Awards and 67 nominations. It also has a producer that's served jail time for frau…
Critic Frank Rich called the original Broadway production of "Dreamgirls" a "seismic emotional jolt that sends the audience, as one, right out of its wits." It's taken 35 years for the shock…
“Oh, Hello on Broadway” doesn’t look much like most shows on Broadway at the moment — and neither does its audience. That’s a headturner on Broadway, where the …
Taran Killam (“Saturday Night Live”) will make his Broadway debut in musical-theater megasmash “Hamilton,” joining the cast along with a handful of other new addition…
From two adjoining townhouses on London's Bedford Square, theater mega-producer Cameron Mackintosh is fitting 10 musicals into a globe-spanning, seven-year plan that will land "Les Misérabl…
Hedda Gabler is at home. Again. Always. Ivo van Hove's stark and self-conscious staging of Ibsen's drama "Hedda Gabler," a National Theater remount of the production that played New York bac…
Jake Gyllenhaal will get to Broadway this spring after all, leading the cast of a revival of 1984 Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical “Sunday in the Park with George” that open…
You can practically smell the man-sweat dripping off director Sam Gold’s radical revision of “Othello,” whose high-profile actors, Daniel Craig and David Oyelowo, appear in…
The holiday season, plus a string of promising new productions, added up a to a nice boost at the Broadway box office last week as total receipts rose 8% compared to the previous week and…
Subways are for singing, at least in the world of "In Transit," the charming a cappella musical of metropolitan life that's rapturously harmonious, even when the times aren't. The likable, l…
The opening scene of Sarah DeLappe's exhilarating play “The Wolves,” which depicts the tough, tender and complicated lives of nine members of a girl's high school indoor soccer t…
It’s impossible to resist the quirky appeal of “The Band’s Visit,” a modest but charming musical directed by David Cromer and featuring Tony Shalhoub. David Y…
Feeling confused, stuck, crushed and desperate? (Who isn't these days?) Then "Tiny Beautiful Things," the stage adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's collection of empathetic advice columns that sh…
“Dear Evan Hansen” is shaping up to be this season’s Little Broadway Musical That Could, ringing in more than $1.5 million in advance sales since its Dec. 4 opening, wit…
“Prince of Broadway,” the long-aborning Harold Prince retrospective, will arrive in New York later this year with a Broadway run that opens in August. Manhattan Theater Club will…
