695 stories 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…
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…
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, …
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 1881 sh…
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 …
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, blockbuster…
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 (hon…
Society looms large in the Stephen Daldry's charged revival of David Hare's SkylightÂ"and not just in the second-act state-of-the-nation wrangle between low-income schoolteacher Kyra (Mul…
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 peopl…
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 unhappy girl…
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'm jus…
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 b…
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…
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 M…
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…
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…
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), an…
To use shipbuilding as an analogy for crafting musicals, the songs are the hull"the most visible part of the thing, taking up the most space. But you won't sail far without a strong, even ke…
Despite the Sherlock-derived title and gruesome crime scene it opens with, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time solves the case relatively quickly. By the end of the first act w…
We know about happy families being alike and unhappy ones being different, but Tolstoy was mum on the weird households. What about the clan that sticks together through chaotic, leaderless f…
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 (…
David Cote interviews the greatest living British playwright about his Roundabout revivals, smoking while writing and his years as a hack journalist.
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…
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…
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…
