2,689 stories by "Gordon Cox"
“Mary Jane,” a heart-stopping play at New York Theater Workshop about women as domestic caretakers, was written by a woman, directed by a woman, largely designed by women, and pe…
September is never a great month at the Broadway box office. There’s a whole host of reasons for that, including the back-to-school rush and, last week, the annual United Nations Gener…
A chance reference in "The Andy Warhol Diaries" to a collaboration on a play with Truman Capote led Rob Roth to 59 cassettes and 80 hours' worth of taped conversation, a decade's worth of ob…
Question: What amenity does an urban center for homeless LGBTQ youth need more than anything? Answer: Why, an Emily Post charm class, of course " so long as it's like the one in Philip Dawki…
After the annual post-Labor Day slowdown, the Broadway box office climbed last week in a rise led by Bette Midler, back at “Hello, Dolly!,” and by two shows that got surges of la…
Signature Theater keeps finding new ways to support and nurture worthy playwrights and to showcase their work with true (i.e., non-commercial) integrity. This season, artistic director Paige…
The din during the intermission of a recent performance of the Broadway-bound musical "Frozen" might have broken decibel records at Denver Center's Buell Theater. No doubt the house's hum wa…
Nicole Kidman and cinematographer Edward Lachman have joined the roster of industry figures to be honored with tributes at the 2017 Gotham Awards, Independent Filmmaker Project’s annua…
After recent TV stints in series including "The Blacklist," "The Good Fight," and "Hawaii Five-0," Christine Lahti's latest gig is an Off Broadway play with an unprintable title. In Signatur…
The Shubert Organization, the company that owns 17 Broadway theaters, has given up efforts to construct a new Broadway venue on West 45th Street, after years of working to add one more house…
The annual post-Labor Day downturn took a bite out of the Broadway box office last week, with overall sales dropping 15% as locals shifted out of vacation mode and city tourism slowed. The b…
Guess that's why they call him God. Stephen Sondheim's paean to old Broadway, "Follies," hasn't had a full-bodied British revival since its West End premiere 30 years ago. With a cast that i…
The National Theater’s revival of “Angels in America,” with a cast that includes Nathan Lane and Andrew Garfield, will land on Broadway this season, with the production boo…
The hacker was nervous. Not to meet me; she was worried about getting caught passing secrets as we huddled together in the reading room of the New York Public Library. After a brief, silent …
“Mean Girls,” the Broadway musical co-written by Tina Fey and produced by “Saturday Night Live” impresario Lorne Michaels, has locked in a Broadway run that opens in …
“A Doll’s House, Part 2,” the buzzy play that burst onto the scene late in the awards-season run-up to the Tony Awards, has posted a closing notice for later this month, fo…
A rainy Labor Day weekend brought a minor rise to the Broadway box office, with most individual shows  upticking and “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812” going dark a…
Broadway Across America, the presenter and producer that sends Broadway tours out to 44 markets, has amassed more than 400,000 in season subscribers — a number that muscles into the re…
Andy Snyder, the longtime theater publicist who most recently served as creative director and vice president of theatrical PR firm DKC/O&M, has struck out on his own, launching the indep…
Will Bernadette Peters be Broadway’s next Dolly? It’s looking that way, after persistent rumors in the theater industry — potentially confirmed in a recent social media pos…
“Springsteen on Broadway,” Bruce Springsteen’s buzzmagnet concert engagement that opens on Broadway in October, has extended by a whopping 10 weeks, stretching the run to F…
“Itzhak,” Alison Chernick’s documentary about famous violinist Itzhak Perlman, will get its world premiere at the 2017 Hamptons International Film Festival, which will open…
Hear ye the Gospel of Luke " as written for our times by the playwright Christopher Shinn. In “Against,” Ben Whishaw's earnest Luke is a tech billionaire supposedly instructed by…
Summer is winding down, and the Broadway box office is winding down with it: Sales in one of the last weeks before Labor Day slipped by 7% as city tourism slowed. The majority of individual …
The 2017 New York Film Festival has lined up a roster of special events that includes world premiere screenings of documentaries about Steven Spielberg and Bob Dylan, as well as a conversati…
