2,695 stories by "Gordon Cox"
“It Shoulda Been You” is awfully funny. That’s strange, because there’s nothing especially clever about this musical comedy by Brian Hargrove (book & lyrics) and …
Now that legendary New York restaurant Tavern on the Green is open again, it's back in the business of Broadway opening night parties. "Gigi," which opened April 8, made the most of the laby…
Now that legendary New York restaurant Tavern on the Green is open again, it’s back in the business of Broadway opening night parties. “Gigi,” which opened April 8, made th…
Prudish American audiences can relax. There’s nothing to offend their tender sensibilities in this antiseptic version of “Gigi,” Lerner and Loewe’s enchanting 1958 fi…
God may have created the heavens and the earth and all living things -- but the Devil surely created Tyrone, the filthy-minded, foul-mouthed sock puppet that has audiences howling at "Hand t…
Alicia Silverstone, "True Detective" actress Kelly Reilly and Eve Best ("Nurse Jackie") have joined the casts of upcoming plays in New York, with Silverstone set to appear in Manhattan Theat…
The opening of “Skylight” on Broadway, in a production starting Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy, stirred up a lot of important issues. For one: The enduring problems of economic in…
Groundhog Day," the hit 1993 Columbia Pictures comedy, will poke its head up on Broadway in spring 2017, bowing in a new musical version from the creators of current Broadway draw "Matilda."
New musicals brought new business to Broadway last week, with two of the week’s four new shows playing to full houses. The Broadway transfer of Off Broadway success “Fun HomeR…
Bill Berloni, Broadway's go-to dog trainer for stage canines, will get a TV showcase this summer with a new reality TV series set to begin airing in August on Discovery Family Channel. Both …
With a whopping 14 shows yet to open before the end of Broadway's 2014-15 season, there's still plenty of time left for surprises in the upcoming race for the Tony Awards. But a couple of th…
If you've ever thought your high school drama teacher deserved a Tony Award, now is your chance to make it happen. In an unprecedented move, the Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards have teamed wi…
Imagine Alan Ayckbourn clawing his fingernails down a blackboard; that's Sam Holcroft's “Rules for Living.” She takes your average family farce — a social occasion su…
Watch Elisabeth Moss play the title character in the Broadway revival of Wendy Wasserstein’s “The Heidi Chronicles,” and you can’t help but see Heidi in relation to P…
Vincent Pastore and fellow "Sopranos" alumnus David Proval will rejoin the mob next month in "A Queen for Day," the mafia-themed play that's making its world premiere Off Broadway in April.�…
Cynthia Erivo, the London stage veteran who’s appeared in musicals there including “The Umbrella of Cherbourg” and “I Can’t Sing,” will reprise the starri…
Boy, the cast of Broadway’s “On The 20th Century” is a wreck. Peter Gallagher, for one, was out of the show for a couple of weeks with a sinus infection that got really bad…
James Houghton, the founding artistic director of Off Broadway’s Signature Theater, will step down from the organization after a 25-year tenure that has seen the organization’s e…
Broadway box office held steady last week, with overall sales remaining about on par with the previous week as the Street looks forward to spring break sales and a spate of new productions t…
West End transfers of Broadway musicals “Memphis” and “Beautiful” lead the 2015 nominations for the Olivier Awards, London’s equivalent of the Tony Awards. R…
"The Audience" marks Helen Mirren's return to Broadway after almost 15 years, and on the play's opening night March 8, the audience at "The Audience" was chuffed indeed to have her back.
“The Audience” marks Helen Mirren’s return to Broadway after almost 15 years, and on the play’s opening night March 8, the audience at “The Audience” w…
New York’s Roundabout Theater Company celebrated Helen Mirren March 2 by reminding her, repeatedly, that she can’t sing her way out of a paper bag. “Helen Mirren can do a l…
Kevin Spacey will be presented with a special award at the 2015 Olivier Awards, the London equivalent of New York's Tonys.Spacey, while juggling film work and his starring role in "House of …
Darren Criss will return to Broadway in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” stepping into the title role after John Cameron Mitchell, the musical’s co-creator and its original …
