Gordon Cox

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‘Chess’ Review: Lea Michele Reigns as Queen of This Uneven Broadway Revival

How do you solve a problem like “Chess”? With music and lyrics by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus (of ABBA) and Tim Rice, and now with a new version of Rice’s...

How Four of Broadway’s Biggest Shows, ‘Chess,’ ‘Ragtime,’ ‘The Queen of Versailles’ and ‘Waiting for Godot,’ All Came Together

A Broadway opening often marks the culmination of a years-long journey for the collaborators who have created a show, whether they’re working on a new musical or a revival of a...

‘Ragtime’ Review: Broadway Revival Is a Timely, Glorious Panorama of Changing Times in America

Whether “Ragtime” is presented in productions mammoth (as in its 1998 premiere) or modest (the 2009 revival), the musical, adapted from E.L. Doctorow’s kaleidoscopic 1975 novel, reverberates with the directness, passion...

Gordon Cox

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