2,700 stories by "Gordon Cox"
Timothy Olyphant, the actor who headlined six season in FX series “Justified,” will star Off Broadway in the world premiere of “Hold On To Me Darling,” the new play b…
“It’s a treat to be here tonight,” New York governor Andrew M. Cuomo said from the stage of Broadway’s Lyceum Theater. “I’ve been shoveling snow for two d…
The stunningly appointed "Empire The Musical," world premiering at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts (and no relation to the hit Fox series), gains strength from the entire company's…
The winter storm pounding the east coast this weekend has prompted Broadway to darken across the board, with the Broadway League declaring all Saturday shows cancelled due to a government ba…
With a major winter storm expected to hammer the east coast this weekend, Broadway is bracing for potentially disruptive snow — but holding out hope that New York will esca…
Claire Danes and Hank Azaria have signed on to join John Krasinski in “Dry Powder,” the new play premiering this spring at Off Broadway’s Public Theater. Sanjit De Si…
It’s now and forever, all over again: “Cats,” the Andrew Lloyd Webber hit that helped usher in the age of the British megamusical, will return to Broadway this summer. T…
There’s little wrong with “Skeleton Crew,” the final play in Dominique Morisseau’s Detroit trilogy, that August Wilson couldn’t fix. Like Wilson, whose ten-play…
Not even the sainted Linda Lavin can save the deeply unpleasant character she plays in “Our Mother’s Brief Affair,” a lazy play by Richard Greenberg commissioned and first …
Daniel Dae Kim will make his Broadway debut in “The King and I” later this spring, after return engagements from Ken Watanabe, who originated the titular king in the Lincoln Cent…
The long weekend of Martin Luther King Jr. Day helped “Hamilton” hit the number one spot at the Broadway box office in a week that saw overall sales hold steady following the …
Homosexuality is "a bad habit," according to Ugandan politician Medard Bitekyerezo — a statement that reflects the homophobia enshrined in his country's law. Chris Urch's bullish drama…
Bette Midler will star in a 2017 Broadway revival of the musical “Hello, Dolly!,” directed by Jerry Zaks and produced by Scott Rudin. Midler, who showed off her power at the B…
Once is not enough. Even twice seems inadequate. Still, no matter how many times you see “Noises Off,” you won’t get all the jokes or catch every sight gag in Michael Frayn…
Like the breed of itinerant entertainers it celebrates, "Louis & Keely 'Live' at the Sahara" has been boppin' around various venues for more than a decade, trying out new things and deve…
Actors’ Equity Association, the union of stage actors and stage managers, has made a deal with Cirque du Soleil Theatrical for the company’s upcoming Broadway debut, “Param…
Disney dominated the Broadway box office in 2015 just as it did in 2014, with Disney Theatrical’s “The Lion King” proving the top earner of the calendar year and the com…
Seniors dance hip hop — sort of — in this high-concept, sweet-natured but currently bland and unsurprising new musical comedy "Gotta Dance," premiering in Chicago with a planned …
Christmas isn't until this week, but a few of Broadway's biggest tourist magnets, from "Aladdin" to "Wicked," started to unwrap their annual holiday sales bounty a bit early. The overall Bro…
What is "Les Liaisons Dangereuses"? A delicious slice of scandalous eroticism — pure sauce and spleen — or something more intricate? Josie Rourke leans towards the former, encour…
Tevye is a mensch. In director Bartlett Sher’s thoughtful but uneven revival of the enduring, endearing musical "Fiddler on the Roof," Danny Burstein " a longtime Broadway veteran step…
Broadway and the live theater industry stand ready to pop champagne tomorrow over the expected passage of the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act 2015, the tax package that includes a pr…
Ambassador Theater Group, the largest owner-operator of theaters in the U.K., will expand its stake in Broadway real estate, launching a multimillion-dollar renovation of the Hudson Th…
“Fun Home” made itself at home in the black, “School of Rock” began to rise and the overall Broadway box office held steady in one of the final weeks leading up to th…
Who wants to be the first kid on the block to own a robot? Get in line behind writer Jordan Harrison (“Orange is the New Black”), an original thinker who’s fixated on sc…
