695 stories by "David Cote"
Cate Blanchett and Isabelle Huppert are all messed up in Jean Genet's subversive classic.
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. …
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 …
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.
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…
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…
Yes, the TONY* nominees, as in Time Out New York. Here's who we think should get the nod on Tuesday morning.
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…
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 …
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…
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…
Arrested Development's hilarious man-child makes his Broadway debut in August; here are the scenarios he should avoid
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…
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…
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…
"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…
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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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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
Conor McPherson’s spellbinding new play has the sense of something otherworldly reverberating within it.
Ethan Hawke leads a host of underwhelming performances in Jack O’Brien s effects-heavy production.
