701 stories by "David Cote"
'When you're starting out in New York, you have to grab them by the balls and make them hear you.'
"We tamed the beast"you and I"we brought him to this city," crows Carl Denham, the filmmaker and impresario in the new Broadway musical "King Kong." The production's beast tamer, as it were,…
'The Prom' may be a candy-colored pop musical, but in a Broadway season dominated by atrocities like 'King Kong' and 'Pretty Woman,' it's a winner.
Although Christopher Demos-Brown s play covers important issues of race, the story and characters are two-dimensional.
MCC Theater brings back Jocelyn Bioh's 'School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play,' a cutting comedy with an emotional wallop centered around six school girls in Ghana preparing for a be…
The whiskey flows, rainbows are spotted, tall tales are told and Irish dancing breaks out over dinner.
Backstage, they apparently call it 'Woke-lahoma!'
Dylan songs sprinkle 'Girl From the North Country.' So do clichés.
A swashbuckling Janet McTeer plays idolized French actress Sarah Bernhardt in a play about her shocking 1899 depiction of Hamlet.
A hybrid theater-video installation by Rob Roth, 'Soundstage' casts Rebecca Hall as the archetype of a 'strong female lead,' and the object of obsession for Roth's reclusive protagonist.
From 'The Cher Show' to productions featuring Bryan Cranston and Snoop Dogg, our picks for what will be this fall's 'Hamilton.'
Pretty Woman " the 1990 Hollywood blockbuster and now the glitzy, pop-scored Broadway spectacle " is a story of mutual transformation. In this sentimental and consumerist riff on George Bern…
Having sat through the sweaty, janky garbage fire Gettin' the Band Back Together, I strongly suspect that producer and book writer Ken Davenport has a chest tattoo that reads (in Gothic scri…
It's kind-of like the Broadway version of Nickelback.
'Be More Chill' lacks the yearning and pain of 'Dear Evan Hansen,' the whip-smart satire of 'Mean Girls,' and has a generic score. Why do people love it?
Young Jean Lee s well-executed new work is both political satire and a philosophical study of human limitations.
This Broadway debut reveals Young Jean Lee as one of our boldest living playwrights.
It has greed, sex addiction, blackmail and craven excuses for Nazis…no cultural relevance to see here!
In his latest play you can't help but wonder, what happened to the bad boy Tracy Letts of yesteryear?
This may be Carey Mulligan's toughest role"certainly the most demanding and intense.
Bend over, Eddie, and take it like a man.
Although this is a period piece, this play reverberates with the zesty camaraderie that gay men can openly enjoy today.
Alan Ayckbourn’s new comedy-drama sketches a portrait of a man across seven decades.
Henry James would find the nearest string of pearls and clutch them if he saw what's been done to his 1903 novella 'The Beast in the Jungle.'
Unfortunately, the members of this ensemble seem as if they re acting in different plays.
