695 stories by "David Cote"
The human race is presented like a museum exhibit"a grimly compelling concept, but one that makes for a glitchy play.
Pulitzer Prize winner Sanaz Toossi's play about a group of Iranians studying for the Test of English as a Foreign Language transfers to Broadway in an impeccable production.
This minimalist staging strips 'Show Boat' to its bones, scraping away a century of cultural rust and sentimentality to reveal an often deeply sad and frequently funny masterpiece of music-t…
Audra McDonald is the first Black actress to play Madame Rose on Broadway, and she and director George C. Wolfe deliver what may be the most heartstopping 'Gypsy' you'll ever see.
Jonathan Spector's play, about vaccine politics splintering a school board, is one big Learning Moment that pretty much everyone fails.
The great Kenneth Branagh leads and co-directs a decidedly not-great production of the Shakespeare tragedy.
This absurdist comedy"the final production to run at Soho Rep"has a hallucinogenic plot that brings to mind the days when artistic risk was the norm and downtown performance art was in high …
Set about 15 years from now, this future fable takes place in and around a shipping center in Wyoming as rising sea levels are swallowing American states east and west.
Characters vape, gender is fluid, desire bi, and death assured in director Sam Gold's hyperpop reimagining of 'Romeo + Juliet.'
This revival of the 1994 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical is full of modern eye-candy and a few surprises. Among them, how Nicole Scherzinger commands her scenes in her Broadway debut.
It's hard to tell what's real in Ayad Akhtar's play starring Robert Downey Jr. as an alcoholic novelist who turns to AI.
Robert Downey Jr. as Jacob McNeal (right) and cast of McNeal. Photo:…
An excellent cast and direction from Sam Mendes keep the action driving in this nearly three hour family drama from playwright Jez Butterworth.
Now 42 years old, the Forbidden Broadway franchise remains Mad Magazine with jazz hands, and the latest edition, 'Merrily We Stole a Song,' features a cast of wildly talented mimics skewerin…
A couple gropes toward honesty and clarity about how they drifted apart in this fast-moving comic showcase.
Women are center stage this fall in shows that highlight reproductive rights, consent and motherhood or showcase a powerful female lead. It can't possibly have anything to do with a certain …
This Choose Your Own Adventure fable about American innovation and greed fills six floors and 100,000 square feet, with 24 characters and enough plot lines to drive an HBO season.
It's Boomer versus Millennial in this one-act play that involves a gun, life online, and a therapist who's both hostage and hostage negotiator.
Cole Escola plays Mary Todd Lincoln in drag in this delightfully campy queer romp, which has moved uptown to goose a sleepy Broadway summer.
Sandra Oh leads a talented cast in this Lucy Kirkwood play"set in 18th century England"that's both a murder mystery and an exploration of the moral rot of misogyny.
This rollicking memory play treats one man's life as an epic journey, and this production"starring Tory Kittles, Brittany Inge and Stori Ayers"is epic indeed.
A talented cast outshines the material in this examination of a war correspondent's trauma and the ethics of journalism.
This rock musical begins in glorious dive-bar grunge mode, and Lauren Patten and Taylor Iman Jones radiate so much charisma you may not care if the story feels a little generic.
Dave Malloy juggles book, music, lyrics, and orchestrations in this musical triptych about Covid Times. The score is entertainingly eclectic, but the dramatic tension and character developme…
This interview-based docu-play revolves around a mysterious photo album donated to the Holocaust Museum that showed the lives of those running Auschwitz.
The jazz-based score ventures into funk, Disney princess ballad, and a touch of Britpop. But none of the songs stick, and the staging is busy yet unfocused.
