2,695 stories by "Gordon Cox"
Brian Dennehy & Mia Farrow. Dennehy & Carol Burnett. Alan Alda & Candice Bergen. Stacy Keach & Diana Rigg. Anjelica Huston & Martin Sheen. That’s the revolving star…
At the village hall, the choirmaster brings news of a slight adjustment to the plan. "I've successfully equipped most of the choir with AK47s but I've had to plump for M16s for the altos bec…
This old town hasn’t seen a dame as bawdy as Bridget Everett since those big fat mamas who stripped for free drinks at Sammy’s Bowery Follies. But you’ll just have to take …
Two cheerfully ludicrous characters stuck in the same place play extravagantly with language and each other as they jockey for position and kill time. And although their seemingly mad activi…
Angela Lansbury will return to the role that won her a Tony in “Blithe Spirit,” leading the cast of a North American tour that launches in December. Lansbury, just feted at an Am…
The Mimi Award, the largest monetary prize for theater in the U.S., will go this year to Stephen Adly Guirgis, who scores $200,000 as part of the package. The writer of Broadway's "The Mothe…
With the U.S. celebrating its gay-rights achievements over the last few years, a one-night-only show on Broadway — surely one of the gay-friendliest places on earth —Â�…
Broadway bounced back from its annual post-Labor Day downturn last week, gaining steam in a frame that added three new shows — including the transfer of London hit “The Curiou…
“Beautiful,” the Carole King bio-musical that has posted million-plus weeks since April, has moved over to the hit column, recouping its $13 million capitalization costs, accordi…
Sex, baseball and religion come together in a pleasurable but uneven new tuner based on the 1988 film "Bull Durham," preeming at Atlanta's Alliance Theater. Like the Bulls, the North Carolin…
Off Broadway's Second Stage Theater has sliced "American Psycho" out of its slate just as the 2014-15 season has gotten underway. According to Second Stage leadership, commercial rights hold…
You can forgive Kenneth Lonergan for being a little emotional at the Sept. 11 opening of “This Is Our Youth” on Broadway. At the performance, which stars Michael Cera, Kieran Cul…
The recent stage revival of “Of Mice and Men,” the first Broadway production recorded by the National Theater’s NT Live series of cinemacasts, will hit movie theaters…
Steppenwolf’s revival of “This Is Our Youth,” Kenneth Lonergan’s 1996 play about disaffected rich kids in the Reagan era, might be re-titled (or marketed as) “T…
Elisabeth Moss will star in a Broadway revival of Wendy Wasserstein’s “The Heidi Chronicles” this spring, just as “Mad Men,” the AMC series that made her famous…
Producers of the upcoming revival of 1973 Lerner and Loewe musical “Gigi” have tapped Vanessa Hudgens to star in the Broadway-aimed production, which will play a tryout run this …
After a minor firestorm of social media backlash, the Broadway League has overturned its decision not to dim Broadway’s lights in honor of Joan Rivers. The League will now oversee t…
Add Off Broadway to the awards-season reach of the American Theatre Wing, the long-standing nonprofit that founded and co-produces Broadway's Tony Awards: As of this season, the Wing will pa…
The week after Labor Day is always a tough one on Broadway. But although this year did see some sales slippage, the falloff looks a lot less dire than it would have five or 10 years ago, …
“Dexter” and “Six Feet Under” star Michael C. Hall will step into the platform boots of the titular East German transgender rocker in Broadway’s “He…
The 2015 Tony Awards have marked the calendar for June 7, when CBS will broadcast the annual Broadway kudofest live from Radio City Music Hall. The eligibility cutoff for the 2014-15 season …
Aurora Productions, the prominent Broadway company that specializes in theatrical production management and technical supervision, has a new president in Ben Heller, who steps into the…
