2,689 stories by "Gordon Cox"
The Broadway box office got a nice jolt last week, with Bette Midler’s final weeks driving up prices at “Hello, Dolly!,” Bruce Springsteen returning after a week off and Ma…
Chloe Sevigny plays a sexy-hippie drug addict like a pro in Seth Zvi Rosenfeld's unfocused new play, “Downtown Race Riot.” But she also gracefully shows us the better side …
Seven years on, Syria's civil war is still raging. Its death toll is nudging half a million, and ten times as many people have been displaced. For those that remain, conflict is the new norm…
"True is what happens," says a confidant Russian Red Army captain to a journalist who is having a difficult time describing things he has seen, be it the night sky or a war atrocity. "False …
Back in 1988, the Broadway play “M. Butterfly” played like “The Crying Game” — four years before the Neil Jordan film was even released. “In the original …
Di Glazer has been named the co-head of the theater department at ICM, where she’ll share the post with the agency’s veteran department chief Patrick Herold. Glazer will work wit…
The Broadway League, the trade association of Broadway producers, have brought a legal complaint against the New York theater industry’s biggest casting directors, branding the casting…
Children should feel free to take their parents to Tina Landau's psychedelically inspired version of the whimsical kiddie cartoon show that's been making a fortune for Nickelodeon since 1999…
Peter Martins, the artistic director of New York City Ballet and an instructor at School of American Ballet, has been accused of sexual harassment, and suspended from teaching his weekly cla…
Will “Hello, Dolly!” keep going up, up and up this holiday season? It looks poised to, with the ultra-hot revival moving into the final weeks of Tony-winning star Bette Midler…
Armie Hammer — one of the stars of “Call Me By Your Name,” the buzzy film that looks poised to make a run at the Oscars — has lined up a Broadway debut this summer in…
The ungainly in-the-round stage of Broadway’s Circle in the Square is put to imaginative use in director Michael Arden's inspired revival of “Once On This Island,” the 1990…
Justin Huff, a casting director who has been involved in Broadway shows including 2013 Tony champ “Kinky Boots,” has been fired from his position at prominent casting agency Tels…
Writer Beau Willimon made his mark on the stage with "Farragut North," which shape-shifted into the film "Ides of March," starring George Clooney, and led to his role as the creator of Netfl…
Israel Horovitz, the longtime playwright-director who helmed the 2014 film "My Old Lady," has been accused of sexual misconduct by nine women. The women came forward in a report in the New Y…
Israel Horovitz, the longtime playwright-director who helmed the 2014 film “My Old Lady,” has been accused of sexual misconduct by nine women. The women came forward to the New Y…
Steve Martin has a flair for surreal comedy — a style that suits “Meteor Shower,” his new play about the existential mischief caused one night in 1993 when a deluge of mete…
Julie Taymor’s production of “M. Butterfly,” which recently opened on Broadway with Clive Owen in the cast, has set its closing date, with producers announcing the show wil…
The young actor Ethan Slater has been involved in the "SpongeBob Squarepants" stage musical since its very first workshop five years ago. But back then, he had no idea he was auditioning for…
With his new play "The Minutes," a simmering satire of a small-town city council meeting that evolves — or devolves — into something of a horror tale, Pulitzer-winning playwright…
Teenaged girls in Ghana prove they can be just as nasty" and as needy " as their international sisters everywhere. Delightful ensemble work from a cast of girlish thesps performing in "Schoo…
You know what you're ordering with a musical comedy based on the music of Jimmy Buffett, an artist whose beach bum persona and preference for Hawaiian shirts and flip-flops contribute as muc…
When Ayad Akhtar won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, he thought: “Well, very little good can come of this.” Akhtar, who won the award for his play “Disgraced,” tal…
The medium is the message " or so they say. If Paddy Chayefsky's classic TV news satire isn't just prescient, but positively prophetic in our age of fake news, the point is pressed home by a…
With a real estate man in the White House as America's Salesman-in-Chief, “Glengarry Glen Ross,” David Mamet's crisp 1983 evisceration of the common street salesman, takes on new…
