2,695 stories by "Gordon Cox"
Debbie Alsebai has spent 55 hours of her life waiting for a ticket to “Hamilton.” The first time she tried to snag one of the very few seats released to the cancellations line…
Playwright David Henry Hwang will success costume designer William Ivey Long as the chair of the American Theater Wing, the not-for-profit theater development organization that founded the T…
One of Broadway’s prime musical houses, the St. James Theater, will soon begin an expansion of its stage that will push the back wall of the theater out into the alley behind it. Work …
“Anastasia,” the stage musical inspired in part by the 1997 animated film, has claimed a Broadway home, targeting an April 24, 2017 opening at the Broadhurst Theater. The show, w…
The new docu-solo from Anna Deavere Smith and older titles from Tracy Letts and Bruce Norris are on the 2016-17 season slate at Off Broadway’s Second Stage Theater. The latest from …
Spurred by its victories at the Tony Awards and by the return of its Tony-winning star, the musical revival of “The Color Purple” took a mighty leap upward at the Broadway box…
Long-gestating a capella musical “In Transit” is commuting to Broadway at last, with the show claiming Circle in the Square for a run that will begin this fall. The musical, whic…
Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland, the two 70-something New Yorkers who are the comic alter egos of Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, will play a stint on Broadway this fall, with the comedians …
Hillary Clinton supporters have a chance to score Broadway’s hottest ticket with a special fundraising performance of “Hamilton,” scheduled as an extra matinee on July 12. …
“Shuffle Along,” the starry Broadway musical that was nominated for 10 Tony Awards earlier this year, will be closing much earlier than expected, with producers choosing to shutt…
“An American in Paris,” the stage musical that meshed Broadway and ballet, will close on Broadway in January — but the major renovations planned for the production’…
Al Pacino, James Taylor, the rock band The Eagles, Argentine pianist Martha Argerich, and gospel/blues singer Mavis Staples have been named the 2016 recipients of the Kennedy Center Honor…
Cirque du Soleil and the NFL are planting a flag in Times Square, constructing a four-story, 40,000 square-foot interactive exhibit, “NFL Times Square,” that aims to attract 2…
“The Humans,” the production that won best play at this year’s Tony Awards, will finish up its run at the Helen Hayes Theater in late July — and then resume perfor…
“The Healing,” the new play by MacArthur Foundation genius grant winner Samuel D. Hunter, was written specifically for Theater Breaking Through Barriers, a company of disabled ac…
RWS & Associates, a producer of stage shows for cruise ships and theme parks, is looking to make a name for itself in commercial theater with the acquisition of Binder Casting, the ve…
“Fun Home,” the intimately scaled musical that won five 2015 Tony Awards including best musical, will close in September after 18 months on Broadway. Although the production̵…
A twist on the Edward Snowden story, Mike Bartlett's new play "Wild" is really an examination of rampant rational skepticism. If ours is a world in which nothing is what it seems and nobody …
A recent win at the 2016 Tony Awards seems to have had an instant effect on the Broadway box office of “The Humans,” the glowingly received production that took home the…
Nickelodeon's endearing, absorbent, animated oddball optimist SpongeBob SquarePants and his surreal undersea habitat Bikini Bottom get a Broadway-scaled stage treatment in “The Spon…
Hasbro is getting into the live entertainment game. Their first move: “Monopoly the Musical,” targeted for Broadway and the first of a series of stage projects to be announced ou…
Philippa Soo, the actress nominated for a Tony Award for her performance in “Hamilton,” will take on the title role in the brewing musical adaptation of “Amelie,” set…
When Javier Munoz takes the stage as the new Hamilton in “Hamilton” this July, it won’t be the first time he’s playing the role. He’s been creator-star Lin-Manu…
“Hamilton” will have a new Hamilton in July, with Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator-star of the Tony-winning Broadway smash, confirmed to exit the show July 9 and his longtime alte…
Members of the Broadway community have teamed up for a charity recording of “What the World Needs Now Is Love,” performed by a “We Are the World”-style supergoup of t…
