701 stories by "David Cote"
Lin-Manuel Miranda has built a monument by combing hip-hop with American history.
Annie Baker's follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning The Flick (also now playing) is built on a similar scale: John runs three hours and 15 minutes over three acts and two intermissions. I …
What is left to say? After Founding Father Alexander Hamilton's prodigious quill scratched out 12 volumes of nation-building fiscal and military policy; after Lin-Manuel Miranda turned that …
It's not exactly a golden age for ethnic jokes: gags about how black people are like this or Jewish folks always do that…and don't get me started on Asians! With homicidal cops and white s…
In 18th-century England, the scion of a slave-trading family works in the business for years, then has a crisis of conscience, repudiates the evil practice and becomes a man of God and an ar…
Master illusionists Penn and Teller (whose act turns 40 this week!) do better than pull a rabbit out of a hat: They reach deep into our collective need to believe and extract skepticism. It'…
Bruce Norris's new play is set at a swingers' party, which rather complicates the playwriting dictum: show, don't tell. Unless you have a game cast and an open-minded audience, it's tricky r…
Playwright Anne Washburn is America's bard of the peripherally glimpsed, the half-eavesdropped, the shakily grasped. Her plays immerse characters in baffling subcultures, and the audience mu…
This year s Tony Awards was overflowing with talent and tough decisions.
As we noted before, this was one of the most unpredictable Tony Awards in recent memory (and yet, predict we did). It was an unusually strong season, full of diverse, exciting play and music…
There aren't many lies you can tell about God that organized religion hasn't told already: He is loving; He rewards the faithful; He is a He; and the biggest crock of all"that He exists. And…
Replacement actors set for The Addams Family and The Importance of Being Earnest
Why are the English so bad at new musicals?
David Cote's critic's picks for this week
TONY's David Cote on NPR this week about Spider-Man and Broadway
Julie Taymor's rock-comix creation goes splat.
Video of the week: Sondheim on The Colbert Report
Derek Jacobi's King Lear to be broadcast live next week
Producers tout tickets to the ex-opening night of Spider-Man
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See Gatz and Tigers Be Still before they close!
The musical s protagonist spins tales of fantasy that leaves one wishing they were a little more fantastical.
Listen in: David Cote about Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
Alan Rickman goes from Norwegian drama to a 1980s flashback
