2,695 stories by "Gordon Cox"
“Shuffle Along” and “The Humans” won the top honors at the 2016 Drama Desk Awards, scoring trophies for outstanding musical and outstanding play, respectively. As the…
Disney’s brewing Broadway musical adaptation of "Frozen" has lost a choreographer, with the previously announced Peter Darling exiting the production because of a prior commitment to w…
It was mostly by accident that "Waitress" became the first Broadway musical with an all-female creative team. But in the middle of a season that was all about diversity, the show, nominated …
If viewers of this year’s Tony Awards get to see a performance from “Spring Awakening,” they’ll have fans to thank for footing the bill. Deaf West Theater’s nom…
A Greek holiday home becomes a symbol of a diplomatic powerplay in Alexi Kaye Campbell's two-act time-hop, "Sunset at the Villa Thalia," at the National Theater. The playwright of transatlan…
One man unites the live musical smash and Broadway sensation.
Want a $10 ticket to “Hamilton”? Try enrolling in a New York City public school. Tickets to the Broadway sensation — and presumptive Tony Awards champion — may be goi…
The Broadway musical “Waitress” is shaping up to be one of the spring season’s success stories. The latest indication? The show’s become the newest member of the mill…
DNA may have ended the romantic mystery of the Anastasia legend, but fairytale princesses are forever. Making a story of a little girl lost more than child’s play is a challenge largel…
Key Brand Entertainment, the company that owns a portfolio of live-entertainment players including Broadway Across America, has rebranded itself the John Gore Organization, named after the e…
Born out of Germany's economic meltdown in the 1920s, "The Threepenny Opera" puts the destitute and desperate onstage — a remarkable thing at the time. Rather than refresh its reality …
Neither love nor hate make this "Romeo and Juliet" — the best so far of Kenneth Branagh's ongoing season of West End plays — but haste. The actor-manager and his co-director Rob …
Last fall, Amsterdam-based director Ivo van Hove had zero Broadway credits to his name. Six months later, he's got two: "A View From the Bridge," the critics-darling revival starring Mark St…
At the end of "Incognito," a new play by Nick Payne ("Constellations") at Manhattan Theater Club, one line of dialogue jumps out: “There is nothing whatsoever remarkable about Albie…
Somebody should have warned Cirque du Soleil Theatrical that it would be an iffy business trying to bring Broadway to Broadway. “Paramour” is an ambitious departure from the comp…
In Cirque du Soleil’s first Broadway show, “Paramour,” it’s not just the acrobats who take flight. It’s the lampshades. In a romantic moment when two characters…
Producers Michael Rabinowitz and Ira Deutchman have optioned the stage rights to the 1975 indie-film success “Hester Street,” planning to produce a New York theatrical adaptation…
Struggling at the box office and essentially shut out of the nominations for the Tony Awards, Broadway musical “Tuck Everlasting” has proven fleeting, with producers announcin…
Hell looks a lot like New Orleans in director Rachel Chavkin’s stunning production of "Hadestown," singer-songwriter Anais Mitchell’s ravishing music-theater piece at New Y…
Tony Awards nominees “The Humans” and “Eclipsed” both scored trophies at the Off Broadway-centric Obie Awards, which gave its top playwriting prize to Rajiv Jos…
White-hot from the buzz of its newly minted megahit “Hamilton” and the enduring popularity of crowdpleasers including “The Lion King” and “Wicked,” Broadw…
David Mamet’s first play following the bad-buzz magnet “China Doll” has been added to the 2016-17 season at the Atlantic Theater Company, the Off Broadway troupe that Ma…
“Hamilton,” “The Humans” and Lin-Manuel Miranda were among the winners of the 2016 Drama League Awards, which anointed a quintet of winners that are also in the runni…
Sutton Foster will star in a new production of “Sweet Charity,” kicking off a 2016-17 season at Off Broadway’s The New Group that also will include the American premiere of…
