2,695 stories by "Gordon Cox"
Here’s a sure bet for the regional theater circuit — a play about a play that shocked Broadway and landed both the show’s producer and its leading man in jail. “In…
Ambassador Theater Group, the largest theater owner-operator in the U.K. and a company in the midst of expanding its New York footprint, has tapped new leadership as its founding leaders and…
David Hyde Pierce has signed on to co-star with Bette Midler in the upcoming Broadway revival of “Hello, Dolly!” The brewing production, from producer Scott Rudin, has also locke…
Broadway musical “Shuffle Along” dominated the 2016 Astaire Awards, which honor choreography and dance performance on stage and on film. The show picked up trophies for male danc…
“Jitney,” the August Wilson play about unlicensed cab drivers in the 1970s, will make its Broadway debut this season in a new production from Manhattan Theater Club, which has ad…
A lot of productions posted minor gains at the Broadway box office last week — but those rises were countered by some big, unavoidable losses at a few individual titles, including R…
Fresh-faced Samira Wiley, a SAG winner as Poussey Washington in “Orange Is the New Black,” is a captivating young actor. (That smile is a traffic-stopper.) In “Daphne’…
The brush strokes are broad in "My Paris," the predictable bio-tuner of Belle Epoque artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, now premiering at Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Conn. The chansons f…
The producer of a new Sherlock Holmes play is investigating a path to the West End and Broadway, enlisting a creative team led by director Daniel Evans to stage an original tale of the…
With Tony Awards season in full swing, the New York theater industry probably hasn’t taken much notice yet of “Josephine,” the new musical about Josephine Baker that …
There’s been some shuffling of the schedule at Tony-nominated Broadway musical “Shuffle Along,” which has set new dates for the hiatus of star Audra McDonald — and ad…
The Broadway box office got a leg up last week from the 2016 Tony Awards nominations, with musical contenders “Waitress” and “Shuffle Along” hitting new highs alongsi…
Darren Criss will kick off the national tour of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” taking on the lead role during the production’s first two stops in San Francisco and L.A. Criss…
“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” the large-scale musical from Warner Bros. Theater Ventures, has locked in its Broadway details, with Christian Borle starring in a production…
The Roundabout Theater Company's Broadway revival of "She Loves Me" led the 2015-16 Outer Critics Circle Awards, scoring four trophies, while the company's starry revival of "Long Day's Jour…
Television turned Technicolor. Dylan went electric. Now, the Kneehigh theater company's Emma Rice ("Brief Encounter") has taken over the leadership of Shakespeare's Globe, and "cultural shif…
“Finding Neverland,” the Broadway musical produced by Harvey Weinstein’s Weinstein Live Entertainment, will close in August, prior to the launch of a U.S. national tour thi…
The New York Drama Critics Circle has named family drama “The Humans” the best play of the season, with “Shuffle Along” taking the award for musical. That’s a b…
The hasty closing notice put up by Broadway musical “Disaster!” in the wake of the 2016 Tony Awards nominations underscores the downside of awards-season hype: The hoopla of it a…
Call it the "Hamilton" effect. As Broadway's newest megahit dominates the Tony Awards conversation, the theater industry is buzzing about all the ways in which the ultrahot musical's success…
#TonysNotSoWhite? After a notably diverse season on Broadway, the 2016 Tony Awards nominations set up the real possibility that for the first time in Tony history, all four musical acting ca…
In some ways, the 2016 Tony Awards nominations shook out exactly as expected, with “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda’s pop-culture phenomenon, dominating the conversation. But…
Regardless of how the imminent nominations for the 2016 Tony Awards turn out, Brian Stokes Mitchell already knows he’s going home with a trophy. The actor, currently appearing in ̶…
“Hamilton” dominated the 2016 Tony Awards nominations, with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway juggernaut notching a record 16 noms for the theater industry’s 70th annual …
With the theater industry holding its breath ahead of the Tony Awards nominations announcement May 3, the Broadway box office got a bit of a boost last week as spring break at New Y…
