2,695 stories by "Gordon Cox"
“Strictly Ballroom” started out on stage: Baz Luhrmann's cult movie about competitive dancing was originally a student play. His own musical adaptation, revised since its Austral…
“The Babylon Line” is one of those modest little gems that contains sparks of white light if you look hard enough. Richard Greenberg’s quirky new play is wholly enjoy…
The Broadway box office came down from its annual Thanksgiving spike last week — but remained plenty healthy, as last-minute business drove up the numbers at “Jersey Boys” …
“Sweat,” Lynn Nottage’s timely play about discontented working-class Americans struggling in a tight economy, has lined up a Broadway transfer, opening at Studio 54 in the …
The Broadway opening of buzzy new musical “Dear Evan Hansen” had Hollywood connections all over the place. First, of course, were the movie ties to songwriters Benj Pasek and Jus…
The very thought of a Broadway transfer of “Dear Evan Hansen” might chill the blood of theatergoers who loved this bittersweet show when it played in the intimate setting of Off …
Chazz Palminteri and Robert De Niro have been living with “A Bronx Tale” for a long time now. Palminteri wrote the solo play in the late 80s, co-starred with De Niro (who also di…
To the best of our knowledge, “A Bronx Tale,” Chazz Palminteri’s love letter to the wise guys and tough street kids from his old neighborhood has not been re-imagined as a …
“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” the two-part play that’s an ultra-hot ticket in London, looks to have scored its Broadway home. Producers of the show are in advanced d…
“Paramour,” the Cirque du Soleil Broadway show that opened in the spring, will find itself looking for a new home next year when its current venue, the Lyric Theater, closes for …
Mahershala Ali has won the 2016 award for best supporting actor from the New York Film Critics Circle, which has also announced special honors for Thelma Schoonmaker, the editor who’s …
U.K.-based theater chain Ambassador Theater Group has named new executive leadership to its North American arm — including Kristin Caskey, the Broadway producer who was one of the lead…
The annual bounty of Thanksgiving week gave the Broadway box office a record $35 million to be thankful for last week, with the hottest ticket on the street, “Hamilton,” blowing …
How far we've come. Phyllida Lloyd's all-female Shakespeares were dismissed as "gimmicky" (and worse) four years ago. Today, genderblind casting is not the norm, but normalized: “King …
The buzz that musical “Dear Evan Hansen” built up Off Broadway has apparently carried over at the Broadway box office, where the show’s first seven previews rang in an impr…
“White Rabbit Red Rabbit” is now in the black. The Off Broadway play has recouped its capitalization costs with an unusual model that sees the show perform once a week with a dif…
With Sutton Foster in the title role of “Sweet Charity,” we now know that even big, beautiful, corn-fed girls from the American heartland can be fragile Fellini waifs. Although c…
Romantics will find much to embrace in writer Thomas Schulman's stage adaptation of the 1989 film he wrote, "Dead Poets Society," receiving its world premiere production at Off Broadway̵…
The musical adaptation of “Amelie” has locked in a slot in the 2016-17 Broadway season, lining up a run that opens in April at the Walter Kerr Theater. Based on Jean-Pierre Jeune…
The Broadway production of "Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812" may be much larger than the original version at Off Broadway’s tiny Ars Nova, which had an audience of less tha…
“Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812,” with Josh Groban and Denee Benton in the title roles, is a luscious, 360-degree immersive experience that feels like being smothere…
The many distractions of Election Day, including the spate of rescheduling it prompted as multiple Broadway shows got out of the way of Tuesday night’s main event, didn’t manage …
The Broadway revival of “Chicago” opened on Nov. 14, 1996 — and in the two decades since, it’s become one of the longest running musicals in Broadway history, second …
Superstar producer-director J.J. Abrams will co-produce the Broadway transfer of hit London stage comedy “The Play That Goes Wrong,” joining a team of producers led by Broadwa…
A giant tree limb slices diagonally across the stage, creating a looming image in Suzan-Lori Parks' symbol-laden, language-rich, ritualistic play about the erasure of African Americans and t…
