721 stories by "David Cote"
The veteran playwright-director tosses together two soiled souls"played by Cecily Strong and David Zayas"adds softener, and gives 'em a whirl.
Between now and the end of April a whopping 18 plays and musicals will open on the Great White Way. Here's the best of what's coming, both on and Off Broadway.
Page-filling blocks of strong words are unfurled in this campus drama, as playwright Itamar Moses articulates"passionately and eloquently"each side of weighty issues of the moment, from Isra…
Set 22 years from now " as climate change has doomed the bees and thus humanity " this high-concept play mixes sci-fi with black comedy.
This musical about a fabulist at a magazine draws on the Stephen Glass scandal of the '90s, but it's more than a bit of stretch itself.
All in the family: a PhD student visits India to film a documentary about queer life in Shayok Misha Chowdhury's vibrant and charming debut play.
Abrar Haque as Choton, Debashis Roy Chowdhu…
Set entirely at group therapy sessions, this 80-minute exploration of psychodynamics and healing may leave you wishing for characters with more interesting problems.
Foster generates waves of zany ecstasy in this delightful concert version of this fractured fairytale for City Center Encores.
A Jewish family " shaken by a recent rise in European antisemitism " uproots itself in Joshua Harmon's passionately argued play.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's slow-burning satire of white privilege arrives on Broadway in an impeccable production with a dream cast, led by Sarah Paulson.
This jukebox musical alternates passionate renditions of Afro-Cuban son, danzón, and bolero with scenes in English that chart the lives of musicians across four decades of love and loss.
'How to Dance in Ohio' was clearly made with love, but this musical adaptation of an HBO documentary about autistic people learning to dance tries to balance good intentions and razzle-dazzl…
Mary Kathryn Nagle's play shifts between the Dutch colonization of Manhattan and the subprime mortgage crisis, a concept that looks good on paper but diminishes the characters and their choi…
Part juke-box musical and part feel-good empowerment fable, this musical from Alicia Keys hungers for a home on Broadway.
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.
