2,691 stories by "Gordon Cox"
With some 175 comedians lined up to perform across more than 50 shows, the New York Comedy Festival is all about funny business. But its impact is no laughing matter. That Kevin Hart standup…
It’s not impossible to open a Broadway show over the summer " but it can be very, very hard. As if to prove the point: Musical “First Date,” which opened in August, anno…
To get it out of the way upfront: Yes, Neil Patrick Harris knows all the secrets to all the tricks in “Nothing to Hide,” the hourlong magic show that blew the minds of audience m…
Broadway courtroom drama “A Time to Kill,” based on the early tome by John Grisham that launched the novelist’s career, will shutter Nov. 17 after just seven weeks on the b…
“Domesticated” is the kind of play that big subscription houses are always on the hunt for:  An entertaining domestic drama on a stimulating topic (the breakup of a marriage u…
Halloween scared away some of Broadway’s sales last week as nearly every production on the boards slipped at the box office " but few of the drops were truly frightening. A coupl…
The Broadway opening of Cotton Club revue “After Midnight” raised a couple of burning questions. Chief among them: How long until Hugh Jackman goes into the show as one of its sp…
Julie Taymor's first stage outing since "Spider-Man" soars with wit and imagination.
When Duke Ellington and his orchestra played the Cotton Club, the swells donned their white tie and tails and went uptown to Harlem in limousines. Everyone else took the A train. …
Because it’s never too early to start booking big-name stars for Broadway stints, the Roundabout Theater Company has set Ewan McGregor to make his Main Stem debut in its revival of …
The room was warm, as theater folk say, at the 10th anniversary performance of Broadway musical "Wicked." The Gershwin Theater audience was packed with a crowd made up of members of the crea…
Nick Kroll, the comedian-scribe-thesp who toplines Comedy Central skein “Kroll Show” and also appears in FXX series “The League,” has been tapped to host the 23rd ann…
The Drama League, the 98-year-old theater development org, has tapped Neil Patrick Harris to receive its annual honor, with the performer set to receive the kudo at the org’s 30th R…
Looks like on Broadway, Magneto and Professor X sell. Or Gandalf and Jean-Luc Picard do. The two-play outing led by Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, with productions of Samuel Beckett's …
Anyone who shelled out the big bucks to see James Bond in the flesh will get more than they bargained for in Mike Nichols’ impeccable revival of “Betrayal.” They’…
Mary-Louise Parker is much too delicate and entirely too fashionable (in stunning widow’s weeds designed by Jane Greenwood) to be stuck in Syracuse in the dead of winter and at the end…
“The Landing” is esteemed Broadway composer John Kander’s first musical since the death of his long-time collaborator, Fred Ebb, so all eyes are naturally on his new partne…
Impressively stylized choreography and punchy lighting cues ignite "G Company Blues," the opening number of lyricist-producer Tim Rice's new tuner "From Here To Eternity." Surprising though …
Nina Arianda, the actress whose last stage role scored her a Tony in “Venus in Fur,” will swing back to the stage with the Off Broadway bow of “Tales from Red Vienna”…
How refreshing " a queer coming-of-age play in which the hero(ine) is not a diva, the parents are not monsters, and people are never mean, even when they’re being cruel.   …
Writer-producer Jules Bass " one half of Rankin/Bass Prods., the duo behind iconic 1960s TV specials "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and "Frosty the Snowman" " is pulling together a n…
Nikki M. James, a Tony winner for her perf in “The Book of Mormon,” will play fan-favorite character Eponine in the incoming Broadway revival of “Les Miserables,” par…
Married thesps Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman will topline an Off Broadway staging of “Annapurna,” the Sharr White play that rounds out the 2013-14 season from Gotham’s N…
Broadway slowed down a bit, but not by much, in the week after the Columbus Day boost, with most shows posting individual declines but few logging major ones. Helping to keep the cume aloft …
Can the Yankees hit a Broadway home run? Rialto producers are stepping up to bat with "Bronx Bombers," a new play about the Gotham baseball team that will move into Circle in the Square in J…
