2,690 stories by "Gordon Cox"
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…
Josh Groban will make his Broadway debut in “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812,” gearing up to return to New York in September 2016. An uber-successful crooner who&#…
The opening night audience for Broadway’s “The Color Purple” didn’t wait for the curtain call to give the show a standing ovation. They rose to their feet during the …
Forget the looking glass. Blur frontman Damon Albarn and playwright Moira Buffini take us through "Black Mirror" territory in "Wonder.land," their musical reboot of "Alice in Wonderland." Re…
The ladies wear the pants in John Doyle’s ravishing revival of “The Color Purple.” Jennifer Hudson is radiant as the love machine Shug Avery. Danielle Brooks shakes the hou…
Tonight the Off Broadway musical “Daddy Long Legs” will become the first show, on or Off Broadway, to live stream a full performance, free of charge on any computer or mobile dev…
Christmases past, present and future have one thing in common: Someone, somewhere will be staging Charles Dickens' seasonal favorite “A Christmas Carol.” It's that creaky over-fa…
Sam Mendes has withdrawn as the director of the incoming Broadway production of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” the musical that he directed in its premiere production in Lo…
“The Man Who Fell to Earth,” the 1976 Nicolas Roeg movie starring an impossibly young and beautiful David Bowie, was initially a 1963 novel by Walter Tevis. Â In writing “…
Under the far better title of “Fat Camp,” “Gigantic” won the Best of Fest Award at the 2009 New York Musical Theater Festival. The perky charms of this offbeat musica…
In these days of tight budgets and straitened circumstances, theater artists coast to coast are scaling back reliable warhorses. The hope is always to find something new and true in well-wor…
