2,700 stories by "Gordon Cox"
Most movies are regenerated on stage for one reason alone: No matter how unwieldy the material, familiarity breeds box-office contentment. But there's a solidly theatrical reasoning behind s…
Ask anyone in the theater industry with a horse in the awards-season race, and they’ll tell you that the Tony category for best musical — or any of the four major awards for over…
Tony favorite Audra McDonald will topline “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill” in a last-minute addition to Broadway’s 2013-14 slate, confirming an expected move t…
Looks like “Kung Fu,” David Henry Hwang’s reverential homage to Bruce Lee, should have been a musical after all. Cole Horibe, Taekwondo Olympic medalist (and finalist o…
Is "Rocky" a Broadway box office contender? Too soon to tell, but sales for the large-scale new musical's initial string of previews suggest audiences are at least showing a steady curiosity…
At its fiercest, Ayad Akhtar's "The Who & the What" bares some of the same teeth as his riveting, 2013 Pulitzer-copping "Disgraced." Both explore Pakistani-American tensions arising from…
With Broadway’s spring season barely begun, is it too soon to start worrying about the Tony races? Well, yes. But that hasn’t stopped legiters from forecasting an awards-season c…
Everybody knows that playwrights shouldn’t direct their own plays. But composers might also think twice about doing their own orchestrations. In an intimate house, Jason Robert…
Yankees play “Bronx Bombers” has struck out at the Broadway box office, with dismal sales prompting producers to post a closing notice for the end of this week. The play, a fanta…
Vanessa Williams, the “Ugly Betty” star who is also a Broadway vet, will be the next guest star to have a stint in “After Midnight,” the Cotton Club-era revue that wa…
Bryan Cranston showed some presidential power at the Broadway box office last week, as his toplining stint in LBJ historical drama “All the Way” posted sales strong enough to lan…
Although there can scarcely have been a time when the warnings of "1984" didn't feel urgent, Edward Snowden's revelations about present-day governmental monitoring of private behavior have t…
Short stories are rich resource material for plays. But Ken Urban’s new play, “The Correspondent,” would make a better short story. The plot is concise and spooky: …
Carey Mulligan, Bill Nighy and Matthew Beard will topline a new West End revival of David Hare’s 1995 play “Skylight,” to be helmed by Stephen Daldry. Mulligan was last on …
The blistering snowstorm that continues to pummel much of the Eastern seaboard is also putting the entertainment business in a deep freeze, closing movie theaters in major cities like New Yo…
John Lithgow toplines “King Lear” and Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater star in “Much Ado About Nothing” in New York this summer, with both titles lined up for the 2014 …
“The Book of Mormon,” which has made a habit of breaking box office records on Broadway, has claimed a major title on the road, too: The production’s national tour has logg…
Hugh Jackman has signed on to host the 68th annual Tony Awards in June, returning to the legit kudocast he previously emceed in 2003, 2004 and 2005. Jackman is a favorite among legit auds an…
Maggie Gyllenhaal, who’s appeared on New York stages multiple times but never on Broadway, will make her Main Stem debut this fall, starring opposite Ewan McGregor in the upcoming Roun…
“This night is killing him,” Kelly Ripa said Monday night in Bryan Lourd‘s living room. Well, it wasn’t actually in Lourd’s gracious New York penthouse, but it …
Producers of Broadway's "Cinderella" are glad they called her, maybe: Carly Rae Jepson, who joined the cast of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Feb. 4 alongside Fran Drescher, helped driv…
Playwright Rebecca Gilman is known for tackling the topical (racism in academia in "Spinning into Butter," stalking in "Boy Gets Girl") and for carefully, even over-bluntly, placing her char…
The swarms of fans who are drawn, moth-like, to the incandescent flame that is Charles Busch will no doubt fly to “The Tribute Artist.” This frantic farce unites the scribe/pe…
On Cyber Monday 2013, mobile purchases accounted for 17% of all retail sales, or more than $350 million in a single day. On Broadway, mobile ticket sales made up just 0.08% of all purchases,…
So, what’s next — golf?  Scribe-for-hire Eric Simonson and producers Fran Kirmser and Tony Ponturo have this factory assembly-line thing going with pro sports organizations…
