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Monday, August 1, 2016

Theater review: Men on Boats at Playwrights Horizons by David Cote

Bad-history plays are a thing now. By “bad” I don’t mean poorly researched, but ones incongruously reframed for comic or deconstructive effect (Drunk History, but arty). Out with perio…

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Sunday, July 31, 2016

Broadway review: Cats at the Neil Simon Theatre by David Cote

My gateway show was not Cats—nor was it Les Miz or Phantom. I grew up, like any self-respecting theater snob, disdaining such tourist trash from afar. Lacking youthful nostalgia for Andrew…

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Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Privacy: Theater review by David Cote

When Mark Zuckerberg was recently photographed with his laptop camera and microphone jack covered in tape, complacent technophiles began to sweat. If the head of Facebook worries about perso…

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Saturday, July 16, 2016

The 10 great Broadway songs that made me love musicals by David Cote

Growing up a straight white boy in small-town New Hampshire, I wasn’t exactly destined to care about Broadway musicals, much less love them and write essays about how we may be living in a…

SOURCE: Time Out at 08:01AM
Thursday, July 14, 2016

Small Mouth Sounds: Theater review by David Cote

Silence is golden in Bess Wohl’s exquisite play set at an upstate meditation retreat where six strangers take (and mostly break) a vow not to speak. But baser metals also emerge from the v…

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Friday, June 10, 2016

Shining City: Theater review by David Cote

Anyone who attends Conor McPherson’s Shining City a second time won’t be surprised by a certain coup de théâtre at the very end. Those who saw it at Manhattan Theatre Club in 2006 know…

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Wednesday, June 8, 2016

David Cote & Adam Feldman's 2016 Tony Award predictions by David Cote and Adam Feldman

The 70th annual Tony Awards will be broadcast on CBS on June 12 from the Beacon Theatre. So now it’s time for our annual tradition, dear reader, of bestowing our can’t-lose predictions a…

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The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois: Theater review by David Cote

Drama cannot happen without a controlled release of information that keeps the characters in the room and the audience wanting more. It helps to have vivid dialogue, an unpredictable plot an…

SOURCE: Time Out at 07:17AM
Thursday, May 26, 2016

Paramour: Theater review by David Cote

The global neocircus giant Cirque du Soleil does things no else on Broadway can. Its acrobats execute quadruple backflips off a teeterboard, their heels seeming to brush the rigging high abo…

SOURCE: Time Out at 01:02PM
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Incognito: Theater review by David Cote

British playwright Nick Payne excels at a subgenre let’s call the Science Weepie. He deploys facts to frame or metaphorize the problems of his protagonists, and the collision of data and h…

SOURCE: Time Out at 05:31AM
Monday, May 16, 2016

Daphne's Dive: Theater review by David Cote

Bars are outstanding factories for human suffering—and deliverance. Everywhere from Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh to Louis C.K.’s hauntingly great web series Horace and Pete, wa…

SOURCE: Time Out at 09:58AM
Sunday, May 1, 2016

A Streetcar Named Desire: Theater review by David Cote

There’s a fiery revival of Tennessee Williams’s great drama buried under the truckload of 1990s regietheater clichés that Benedict Andrews dumps all over St. Ann’s Warehouse’s playi…

SOURCE: Time Out at 09:13PM
Friday, April 29, 2016

TALES OF THE RECONSTRUCTION by David Cote

George C. Wolfe s reimagining bursts with joy and style.

SOURCE: Theater News Online at 07:52PM
Thursday, April 28, 2016

Shuffle Along: Theater review by David Cote

The full title of this extraordinary showbiz excavation-renovation masterminded by George C. Wolfe—Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed—is v…

SOURCE: Time Out at 07:30PM
Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Tuck Everlasting: Theater review by David Cote

At the dramatic crux of Tuck Everlasting, a 102-year-old man trapped in a 17-year-old body asks an 11-year-old girl to wait six years until she’s legal, at which point she will drink from …

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Sunday, April 24, 2016

Waitress: Theater review by David Cote

One’s sorely tempted to praise the delightful new musical Waitress using lots of bakery metaphors. After all, its hero is a pastry genius with relationship woes named Jenna (Jessie Mueller…

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Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Thursday, April 7, 2016

KING FOR A DAY by David Cote

The regicide and rebellion of the history plays are on full display in this fine feast of Shakespeare.

SOURCE: Theater News Online at 07:23PM
Tuesday, April 5, 2016

The Best Arthur Miller Plays by David Cote

From Death of a Salesman to his first show on Broadway, Time Out New York's David Cote ranks Arthur Miller's 10 best plays

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Sunday, April 3, 2016

AGE OF TERROR by David Cote

Arthur Miller’s penetrating study of the Salem witch trials is expertly adapted to resonate today.

SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:47PM
Thursday, March 31, 2016

The Crucible: Theater review by David Cote

There are two types of audience members attending Ivo van Hove’s The Crucible: those who take their seats and, when the curtain rises, wonder, Why’s it set in a classroom? and the other …

SOURCE: Time Out at 10:27PM
Sunday, March 20, 2016

The Effect: Theater review by David Cote

For a play about test subjects going through extremes of sadness, lust, joy and despair, The Effect leaves you slightly cold.

SOURCE: Time Out at 11:48PM
Friday, March 18, 2016

She Loves Me: Theater review by David Cote

Desire is chemical, or so the scientists say. When that special someone draws near, their scent can cause a fuss in the hypothalamus, prompting a rush of dopamine, adrenaline and oxytocin. P…

SOURCE: Time Out at 10:17AM
Friday, March 11, 2016

WALKING GHOSTS by David Cote

David Harrower’s hellishly compelling play reaches deep into the psyches of two characters marked by a past experience.

SOURCE: Theater News Online at 09:51PM
Monday, February 22, 2016

Her Requiem: Theater review by David Cote

Contrived and gently pretentious, Greg Pierce’s Her Requiem is the Off Broadway equivalent of a New Yorker short story (an improvement, I suppose, on all the new plays that seem like Netfl…

SOURCE: Time Out at 07:49PM
Friday, January 22, 2016

THE YEAR OF HAMILTON by David Cote

There was plenty on offer on Broadway this past year, but one musical took the cake.

SOURCE: Theater News Online at 07:36PM
Thursday, January 14, 2016

Noises Off: Theater review by David Cote

Explaining why a thing is funny is hard enough. Trying to account for something you know is hilarious—but then isn’t—is tougher still. Case in point: The Roundabout Theatre Company has…

SOURCE: Time Out at 09:53PM
Sunday, December 20, 2015

Fiddler on the Roof: Theater review by David Cote

Although the titans Zero Mostel, Jerome Robbins and Harold Prince are reflexively linked to this 1964 classic, there’s another, uncredited, father of Fiddler on the Roof. It’s Marc Chaga…

SOURCE: Time Out at 07:47PM
Thursday, December 17, 2015

RANTS WITHOUT RAVES by David Cote

Mamet and Pacino hand over an ungainly and pretentious monologue.

SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:32PM
Monday, December 14, 2015

Marjorie Prime: Theater review by David Cote

Despite the built-in obsession with gadgets, science fiction always orbits back to a familiar subject: human psychology. All those robots, rockets and aliens are just shiny metaphors for our…

SOURCE: Time Out at 09:50PM
Monday, December 7, 2015

Lazarus: Theater review by David Cote

New York Theatre Workshop’s sold-out, buzzy Lazarus is hard to describe. Blame the holiday season, but I feel it’s like one of those old-timey TV Christmas specials, in which an isolated…

SOURCE: Time Out at 08:07PM

All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic
TBA: Ragtime