Gordon Cox
How 'Tick, Tick … Boom!' Star Robin de Jesús Played the Long Game, Even Through the Setbacks
Entertainment Gordon Cox - January 11, 2022
Robin de Jesús is a three-time Tony Award nominee who's currently co-starring in "Tick, Tick… Boom!," one of this year's film awards season contenders. But de Jesús will be the first to...
'Flying Over Sunset' Review: A Trippy New Broadway Musical
Entertainment Gordon Cox - December 13, 2021
In the midst of the deadly dull 1950s, Hollywood celebs Cary Grant, Claire Booth Luce and Aldous Huxley escape their ennui by dropping acid. No serious sex is involved and no one...
'Company' Review: A Sublime Revival of Stephen Sondheim's Beloved Musical
Entertainment Gordon Cox - December 9, 2021
Half a century has passed since Stephen Sondheim and George Furth first dazzled Broadway with "Company," their tartly astute 1970 musical about a single Manhattanite dogged by coupled friends to meet a...
'The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage' Review: 'His Dark Materials' Prequel Is a Triumph of Theatrical Storytelling
At a moment of the highest possible tension, a character shoots a puppet. What makes that not just exciting, but truly extraordinary, is that you feel the entire audience shudder. "We're not...
How the Cast of 'Company' Learned of Stephen Sondheim's Death: 'It Was Crushing'
The cast of the new Broadway revival of "Company" was in the middle of a two-show Friday on Thanksgiving weekend when they heard the news that the musical's legendary composer, Stephen Sondheim,...
'Mrs. Doubtfire' Review: An Unmemorable Broadway Musical Banks on Familiar Material
A face smothered in banana cream has already sprung out from behind a refrigerator door. A silicone breast plate has been scorched over a stovetop. A man dressed like Margaret Thatcher on...
'Clyde's' Review: Uzo Aduba Stars in Lynn Nottage's New Broadway Comedy
Entertainment Gordon Cox - November 23, 2021
A sandwich has always been a kind of vehicle, ingredients riding between sliced bread. Lynn Nottage improbably turns the lunchtime staple into the storytelling engine of "Clyde's," her deceptively simple flavor-bomb of...
Why Uzo Aduba's New Broadway Role Reminds Her of 'Jaws'
Uzo Aduba does not play a great white shark in Lynn Nottage's new Broadway comedy "Clyde's" — but her role in the show does make her think, somewhat surprisingly, of "Jaws." Listen...