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Friday, September 19, 2014

Love Letters | Brooks Atkinson Theatre | Plays & Shows | Time Out New York by David Cote

The stars will come and go in A.R. Gurney's popular 1988 two-hander, an epistolary romance between friends that stretches over 50 years. Gregory Mosher directs Brian Dennehy and Mia Farrow (…

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Thursday, September 18, 2014

Tom Stoppard Interview: "I've always been strangely eclectic." by David Cote

David Cote interviews the greatest living British playwright about his Roundabout revivals, smoking while writing and his years as a hack journalist.

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Bridget Everett: Rock Bottom | Joe's Pub at the Public Theater | Concerts | Time Out New York by David Cote

The astonishing, totally fearless Amazon of alt cabaret and raunchy comedy (Inside Amy Schumer) returns to Joe's with a new show commissioned for the venue. Cocreated with Broadway's Marc Sh…

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Thursday, September 11, 2014

This Is Our Youth: Theater review by David Cote

Funny how yesterday's manboy becomes today's sad old guy. But that's always been Michael Cera's trick, hasn't it? Ever since he grew a cult fan base as frozen-in-the-headlights teen George M…

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Sunday, August 17, 2014

Poor Behavior | Primary Stages (at the Duke on 42nd Street) | Plays & Shows | Time Out New York by David Cote

One of our most versatile and prolific playwrights, Theresa Rebeck has a den wall crowded with trophies: monodrama (Bad Dates), modern Greek tragedy (The Water's Edge), backstage comedy (The…

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Monday, August 11, 2014

Time Out New York review: The Maids by David Cote

Cate Blanchett and Isabelle Huppert are all messed up in Jean Genet's subversive classic.

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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

King Lear | Delacorte Theater | Plays & Shows | Time Out New York by David Cote

The latest King Lear opens at a time when the world is confirming its apocalyptic vision: civilians shot out of the sky, children bombed in schools and disease spreading from foreign lands. …

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Friday, August 1, 2014

Between Riverside and Crazy | Atlantic Theater Company | Plays & Shows | Time Out New York by David Cote

It's hard to tell the sinners from the saints with Stephen Adly Guirgis. The earthy playwright"whose profanity-laced urban yarns were often directed by the late (still cannot fucking accept …

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Saturday, June 28, 2014

Three Broadway shows that would actually welcome a visit from Shia LaBeouf by David Cote

The self-destructing Hollywood star was kicked out of Cabaret last night. He should take his antics to these other hits on the Great White Way.

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Friday, June 20, 2014

Holler if Ya Hear Me | Palace Theatre | Plays & Shows | Time Out New York by David Cote

Broadway is no stranger to rap (In the Heights), but this is the first time a bona fide rapper's songbook has been turned into a jukebox musical by Todd Kreidler. Woven around songs by Tupac…

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Monday, June 9, 2014

Tony Awards 2014! Winners and losers on Broadway's biggest night by David Cote and Adam Feldman

Another year, another Tony Awards telecast. In general, the gold went to the most deserving of the season: Few would carp about Bryan Cranston or Neil Patrick Harris nabbing top honors, and …

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Friday, June 6, 2014

Macbeth | Park Avenue Armory | Plays & Shows | Time Out New York by David Cote

He took the London stage by storm 30 years ago, but Kenneth Branagh has never trod the New York boards. Now the thespian brings his critically acclaimed take on Shakespeare's Scottish tyrant…

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Friday, April 25, 2014

The 2014 TONY* Nominees Leaked! by David Cote

Yes, the TONY* nominees, as in Time Out New York. Here's who we think should get the nod on Tuesday morning.

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Thursday, April 24, 2014

Casa Valentina | Samuel J. Friedman Theatre | Plays & Shows | Time Out New York by David Cote

Clothes unmake the men in Casa Valentina, Harvey Fierstein's mostly effective period drama about cross-dressers in 1962. Set at a Catskills resort that caters to straight married fellows who…

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Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Hedwig and the Angry Inch | Belasco Theatre | Plays & Shows | Time Out New York by David Cote

Transitioning from child star to adult gay icon, sitcom prince and social-media wizard, Neil Patrick Harris always seemed to be a cultural rock star. But in his latest reinvention, it turns …

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The Velocity of Autumn | Booth Theatre | Plays & Shows | Time Out New York by David Cote

In case its telegraph title didn't clue you in, The Velocity of Autumn is about aging. As 79-year-old Park Slope resident Alexandra (Parsons) repeatedly moans, the sunset years are no picnic…

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Sunday, April 20, 2014

The Cripple of Inishmaan | Cort Theatre | Plays & Shows | Time Out New York by David Cote

Profiles of playwright Martin McDonagh report how, in 1994, the young Anglo-Irish scribe holed up in his childhood home and cranked out the drafts of seven plays in an incredible nine months…

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Friday, April 18, 2014

What Michael Cera should learn from these celebrity train wrecks on Broadway by David Cote

Arrested Development's hilarious man-child makes his Broadway debut in August; here are the scenarios he should avoid

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Thursday, April 17, 2014

Act One | Vivian Beaumont Theater (at Lincoln Center) | Plays & Shows | Time Out New York by David Cote

Near the end of his best-selling 1959 memoir, Act One, dramatist-director Moss Hart relates an opening-night speech made by George S. Kaufman, his (grand-speeches-hating) cowriter on the sma…

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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Of Mice and Men | Longacre Theatre | Plays & Shows | Time Out New York by David Cote

When Depression-era migrant workers George Milton (Franco) and Lennie Small (O'Dowd) roll into a California ranch, the hands say it's "funny" that the guys travel together. There's a faint s…

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Monday, April 14, 2014

President Obama caught Denzel Washington on Broadway! What should he take in next? by David Cote

As someone accustomed to getting in and out of Broadway houses as quickly as possible to avoid the post-curtain death march up the aisle into the maelstrom of Times Square, I will admit to f…

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Friday, April 11, 2014

Bullets Over Broadway | St. James Theatre | Plays & Shows | Time Out New York by David Cote

"The artist can be forgiven anything if he produces great art," says one of Woody Allen's proxies (and let's face it, they're all proxies) in Bullets Over Broadway. The maxim is aimed at gro…

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Sunday, April 6, 2014

The Realistic Joneses | Lyceum Theatre | Time Out New York by David Cote

Will Eno's Broadway debut is a unique opportunity for the idiosyncratic writer to alienate and irritate whole new demographics. Cranky defenders of well-made plays will fume over its laconic…

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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Win tickets to A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder"and party with the cast! by David Cote

Get FREE tickets to the Sunday April 6 matinee of the show and then get on the guest list for the CD release party afterward.

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Monday, March 31, 2014

Heathers: The Musical | New World Stages | Plays & Shows | Time Out New York by David Cote

At the risk of sounding, y'know, bitchy, you sorta know what to expect from a musical based on the 1989 cult movie Heathers. There will be the three titular mean girls, a fat gal cruelly nic…

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Sunday, March 30, 2014

If/Then | Richard Rodgers Theatre | Plays & Shows | Time Out New York by David Cote

Beloved diva Idina Menzel (Wicked) returns to Broadway in a new musical by the makers of Next to Normal. Menzel plays a fortyish woman whose life is followed along two parallel tracks in the…

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Monday, March 24, 2014

Les Misérables | Imperial Theatre | Plays & Shows | Time Out New York by David Cote

A 16-year original run, a 2006 revival and a megahit movie clearly can't quell the French fighting spirit. Cameron Mackintosh brings his global phenomenon back to the Great White Way, in a r…

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Friday, March 14, 2014

Rocky | Time Out New York by David Cote

Every few years, a piece of stagecraft drops so many jaws and pops so many eyes, it becomes a Broadway insta-icon: Add to that list the spectacular final bout in Rocky.

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Thursday, February 20, 2014

Love and Information | Minetta Lane Theatre | Plays & Shows | Time Out New York by David Cote

The great English playwright Caryl Churchill dissects our fractured, data-clogged culture with this dizzying mosaic of microdramas, originally presented at the Royal Court Theatre in 2012. C…

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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

DOMINATION AND SALVATION by David Cote

Conor McPherson’s spellbinding new play has the sense of something otherworldly reverberating within it.

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Monday, December 16, 2013

The best (and worst) theater of 2013 by David Cote and Adam Feldman

From the best new Broadway shows to groundbreaking downtown experiments, it was a very good year for New York theater.

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