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Monday, May 25, 2015

THE BIG SHOW by David Cote

A Gentleman s Guide , Bryan Cranston and Neil Patrick Harris were among this year s big winners.

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MADCAP MÉNAGE by David Cote

This revival – a long time coming – is stuffed with the city’s finest comic talents.

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LET JOY BE UNRESTRAINED by David Cote

This revival – a long time coming – is stuffed with the city’s finest comic talents.

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A BOY AND HIS DOG by David Cote

The creative team does an impressive job of translating a story originally meant for the page.

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SOLID CRAFTSMANSHIP by David Cote

Tom Stoppard’s 1982 play is a keen and touching study of fidelity, fiction and marital love.

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BURSTING WITH EMPTINESS by David Cote

Edward Albee s parlor puzzler is meant to be difficult, but there is depth and sophistication if you re willing to look for it.

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A MONSTER'S GRACE by David Cote

Despite an excellent performance by Bradley Cooper, the pace drags and the transitions are bumpy.

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THE HISTORY BOY by David Cote

This period epic gives several twists to history, with a complex hero at the center.

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THE ROYAL TREATMENT by David Cote

Now in its fourth Broadway revival, the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic speaks in a universal language.

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Monday, May 18, 2015

What I Did Last Summer: Theater review by David Cote

Anna Trumbull (Kristine Nielsen), a.k.a. the Pig Woman, is a bohemian ex–blue blood (and half Native American) who likes to unlock “potential” in young people. She does so with whimsic…

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Thursday, May 14, 2015

Hamilton, Penn & Teller, The Tempest and the best plays and Broadway musicals to see this summer by Adam Feldman and David Cote

From Broadway’s best new musicals to global festivals, the city’s stages keep hot during the summer months

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Friday, May 8, 2015

Sleep No More, Queen of The Night, and the best immersive theater in NYC by Adam Feldman and David Cote

With interactive shows continuing to draw in crowds, we rank the most popular Off Broadway events from best to worst

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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Nods, snubs and sweeps: Five takeaways from the 2015 Tony Award nominations by David Cote and Adam Feldman

This morning, Broadway-bound Bruce Willis and Mary-Louise Parker announced the nominees for the 2015 Tony Awards. While for us there weren’t a lot of surprises (our pre-nominations were pr…

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Friday, April 24, 2015

The TONY* Tony Nominees Just Announced! by David Cote

Yes, it's our annual tradition at TONY—that's Time Out New York—we choose the nominees as if we were the committee!

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Thursday, April 23, 2015

The Visit: Theater review by David Cote

Claire Zachanassian (Rivera) fled her dreary European town a disgraced, ruined girl, and she returns to Brachen a vengeful billionairess, planning to exact revenge on Anton Schell (Rees), th…

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Something Rotten!: Theater review by David Cote

Do you fondly remember that Taming of the Shrew episode from Moonlighting, back in 1986? Whenever blue, do you stream Shakespeare in Love for succor? Are you a fierce partisan for Blackadder…

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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Doctor Zhivago: Theater review by David Cote

Based on a sweeping historical novel crammed with characters and incident, Doctor Zhivago follows the fortunes of a heroic man with a divided heart across decades of turmoil and revolution, …

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Monday, April 13, 2015

Ghosts: Theater review by David Cote

If all you needed for a successful Ghosts were a spooky set, sickly shadows and an ardent Helene Alving, then Richard Eyre’s adaptation would be perfect. But this new look at Ibsen’s 188…

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An American in Paris: Theater review by David Cote

The arrival of two big musicals derived from classic 1950s movies located in the City of Light (see Gigi) indicates either a resurgent interest in the early film oeuvre of Leslie Caron or a …

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Friday, April 10, 2015

Wolf Hall: Parts One & Two—Theater review by David Cote

Despite its title, there are more species than just Canis lupus scurrying and lurking along the margins of Wolf Hall: Parts One & Two, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s triumphant, blockbust…

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Sunday, April 5, 2015

Exclusive Video: Laura Benanti gives the worst guided tour ever of Radio City Music Hall by David Cote

Broadway watchers over the past few years have known what a treasure Laura Benanti is: beauty, awesome singing chops and her not-so-secret weapon, killer comedy timing. Benanti’s shtick (h…

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Friday, April 3, 2015

Skylight: Theater review by David Cote

Society looms large in the Stephen Daldry's charged revival of David Hare’s Skylight­—and not just in the second-act state-of-the-nation wrangle between low-income schoolteacher Kyra (M…

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Friday, March 27, 2015

ew York Spring Spectacular: Theater review by David Cote

The Rockettes and the creative army behind Radio City Music Hall’s New York Spring Spectacular want to turn you into a tourist in your own town—not such a feat, really. Another hundred p…

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Sunday, March 8, 2015

The Audience: Theater review by David Cote

The teen Elizabeth, fated to wear the crown and wield the scepter as Queen of England, hates her new digs at Buckingham Palace. “It’s like being trapped in a museum,” whines the unhapp…

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The Liquid Plain: Theater review by David Cote

American theater needs more plays like Naomi Wallace’s The Liquid Plain—by which I mean works that are historical, epic and poetic, that valorize the lives of the poor and oppressed. I�…

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Thursday, March 5, 2015

Fish in the Dark: Theater review by David Cote

Checking out Larry David’s debut as a Broadway playwright and performer, I did not expect to be thinking of ancient Greek tragedy. Comedy, sure, but I figured past influences would stretch…

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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

White-hot Hamilton delays Broadway transfer until summer by David Cote

At a press conference this afternoon, Public Theater head Oskar Eustis, along with Miranda and the production cast and crew, surprised everyone who had been expecting news of a spring transf…

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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Hamilton: Theater review by David Cote

History ticks to a syncopated beat in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s jubilant, overflowingly rich Hamilton. And just as syncopation achieves its energizing effect by disturbing the expected flow, so…

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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Honeymoon in Vegas: Theater review by David Cote

How to answer snobs who denounce Broadway as a cultural wasteland of gaudy lights, musical cheese and tacky titillation, a place where suckers from around the world flock to get fleeced? You…

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Sunday, November 16, 2014

The River: Theater review by David Cote

Hugh Jackman may not be singing and dancing, but we still can't wait to see his new gig on Broadway. The charismatic Aussie stars in a mysterious new piece by Jez Butterworth (Jerusalem) abo…

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Friday, October 31, 2014

The Real Thing: Theater review by David Cote

One of the finest speeches in Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing (and there are several), concerns the absolute value of good construction, using a cricket bat as an example. Henry (McGregor), …

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