2,695 stories by "Gordon Cox"
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Sam Mendes has withdrawn as the director of the incoming Broadway production of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” the musical that he directed in its premiere production in Lo…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…
Kids and guitars and rock ‘n’ roll? That’s a slam dunk — just ask the enthusiastic crowd at the opening night of the Broadway version of “School of Rock.”…
“School of Rock” took a tumble at the Broadway box office last week — but nobody’s expecting the show to stay down for long. The new musical from Andrew Lloyd Webber …
Andrew Lloyd Webber unleashed his inner child to write the period rock for “School of Rock,” an exuberant feel-good musical based on the beloved 2003 movie starring Jack Black as…
When Fanny Brice's boss tries to make a joke of her dowdy looks, dolling her up as a deluded bride convinced of her beauty, his comic star takes him to task. "They're supposed to laugh…
Like most of the Internet, Ali Stroker, a cast member in the Deaf West Theater revival of “Spring Awakening,” had a strong reaction to Kylie Jenner’s controversial ph…
In 2005, an actor named Griffin Matthews volunteered to work at an orphanage in Uganda and returned home to start his own charitable organization. The writer-performer drew on that episod…
With the addition of choreographer Lorin Latarro, the incoming musical “Waitress” has put together what’s being touted as Broadway’s first all-female creative team. L…
You’d think Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator and star of Broadway hypemagnet “Hamilton,” would have hit peak pop-culture saturation by now, but then he had to go and top …
Helen Mirren spiced up the 2015 Gotham Awards ceremony with an acceptance speech that ranged from bawdy to funny to serious, getting in a dig at Donald Trump while she was at it. She slipped…
Four hard-working actors, ably assisted by a resourceful costumer and a nimble props master, make a mighty effort to play the 20-plus characters in “New York Animals.” Steven …
The holiday bounty on Broadway last week included a new Thanksgiving attendance record, with close to 290,000 theatergoers adding up to the best-attended Turkey Day week ever recorded.…
Routinely described as Britain's greatest living playwright — arguably in a job-share with Tom Stoppard — Caryl Churchill can do in a 45-minute triptych what most writers take th…
Playwright Patrick Barlow had a big, surprise hit with his stage version of “The 39 Steps,” racking up nine years in the West End and two more on Broadway, gleefully sending up i…
Does getting chased by zombies feel any less terrifying if the undead have experimental theater credits? Probably not. But even if most theater people might not have "The Walking Dead Experi…
Wallace Shawn is up to his old tricks again: pricking the conscience of right-on, left-leaning theatergoers. No one does that better than this impish, idiosyncratic polymath, who, at 72, sti…
“The Humans,” the Stephen Karam play that won raves in its current Off Broadway run, has locked in dates for its anticipated Broadway transfer, starting performances in January a…
The team that brought L.A. audiences “Cruel Intentions: The Musical” and “The Unauthorized O.C. Musical” is at it again, lining up “The Unauthorized ‘Frid…
Add more Arthur Miller to the Broadway slate: The Arthur Miller Foundation will celebrate the centennial of the playwright’s birth with a starry benefit featuring Alec Baldwin, Ellen B…
Old-fashioned Broadway is embracing newfangled virtual reality, in the hopes that the fashionable 3D-imaging technique will add up to real-life ticket sales. Last week, "The Lion King" relea…
The Tony Awards have set dates and switched venues for their 2016 edition, returning to the Beacon Theater on Manhattan’s Upper West Side for a ceremony that will air live on CBS June …
