701 stories by "David Cote"
In the Theatre for a New Audience production of 'Waiting for Godot,' Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks bring uncommon clarity to Beckett's classic.
Packed with profanity, anguished sexuality, and high-decibel meltdowns, 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea' has been drama department fodder since its 1983 debut. Only this time, the acting studen…
The story of the Comedian Harmonists"the German (and Jewish) singing sensations forced to break up due to the Third Reich"is told in this amiable if derivative musical.
This tale of grief and release is the sort of crowd-pleaser that used to be common fare on Broadway but has long since migrated to small screens.
This portrait of a Fleetwood Mac-like band slaving over an album is full of novelistic detail and luxurious fly-on-the-wall beauty.
The one-percenters of Stephen Sondheim's final work, 'Here We Are,' are living a life of pleasure, beauty, and infinite possibility. Until Act II, that is.
It the hilariously desperate 'Gutenberg! The Musical!' two would-be Broadway composers pitch their show about the 16th-century German inventor of the printing press.
The Druid company's marathon of three plays from Sean O'Casey offers the chance soak up an Irish master who combined gimlet-eyed humanism with corrosive social critique.
In no way does Etheridge reinvent the solo theatrical memoir. But she performs with a natural ease, like your wild aunt telling stories over beers one Thanksgiving.
At the center of a prodigious cast and Kenny Leon's clockwork staging are Leslie Odom Jr. and the astonishing Kara Young.
Playwright Rebecca Gilman's keenly observed drama arrives Off Broadway at the Minetta Lane Theater from Chicago's Goodman Theatre for a limited run.
The most satisfying new work since last season's 'Downstate' has an obscenely gifted cast, led by Christina Kirk.
Experiments, parodies, Sondheim, Godot, and much more await you this fall.
What's gained by staging Chekhov in the round, with actors just feet away, sometimes lit only by a candle? It's what you'd expect: a wonderfully intense experience of the text.
Robert Shaw's son Ian cowrote this behind the scenes look at the filming of 'Jaws,' and plays his father.
This Broadway adaptation of the 1985 movie has some four-wheeled spectacle to offer. But not much else.
Singing! Rapping! Demonic possession! Kenny Leon's direction of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy has welcome, lively touches, but overall the staging feels undercooked.
In this one-man autobiographical show, an Orthodox Jewish comic attends a white supremacist meet-up and comes away with thoughts (and jokes) about "the way the world is right now."
This family-friendly jukebox musical cobbled around Britney Spears songs see a group of classic fairytale princesses rebelling against a faithless Prince. But it's more marketing gimmick tha…
Extremely loud and incredibly verbose: a new play from Robert Icke forgoes the subtleties of showing for too much telling.
Juliet Stevenson as Ruth Wolff and Juliet Garricks as Charlie in T…
There's a point here " men do terrible things and the universe will have revenge " but it's buried in a pretentious trauma-drama using horror tropes to diminishing effect.Â
Eboni Booth's portrait of one man's loneliness and the danger of coping mechanisms will restore your faith in theater's elemental storytelling powers. And make you cry.
Director Mira Nair turns her own layered 2001 film into a sitcom that transitions awkwardly into musical numbers.
Comer's astoundingly fluid, musical and passionate performance leaves nothing on the field.Â
This play-within-a-play is full of topsy-turvy chaos that makes you think of Basil Fawlty stumbling into a community theater. Comparisons to British comedy icons"from Monty Python to Mighty …
