721 stories by "David Cote"
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 …
This revival " with a new book by Aaron Sorkin " is spare, drab and somehow takes the Lerner and Loewe classic both too literally and not seriously enough.
In this " wait for it " corny new musical, the score makes a case for country as a natural Broadway genre and the cast turns in strong performances. Shame about the plot, though.
A book by Emerald Fennell (who wrote and directed 'Promising Young Woman') and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber must have screamed cross-generational synergy on paper. But it's TikTok meets gran…
Suzan-Lori Parks reshapes the 1972 Jimmy Cliff movie into a jukebox musical, but its outlaw charge has gone missing.
A chilly, restrained minimalism marks this Broadway adaptation of Ibsen, starring Jessica Chastain.
Existential upheaval is fun in this magic-realist mini-epic from Agnes Borinsky that moves the beyond theatrical binaries of comedy and tragedy.
Chekhov's 1895 comedy gets a cheerfully vulgar refurbishing (and a perfect Parker Posey), but part of the shock is how by-the-book Thomas Bradshaw's rework is.
A pop star becomes a demon barber, a TV assassin turns attorney, and Hamlet gets a Black, queer makeover " those are just a few of the miraculous transformations the theater has in store the…
A talented cast is trapped by cringe material in this show about quirky urbanites trying to survive in New York City, with songs from Mark Eitzel of American Music Club and a book by British…
Sharr White's Broadway adaptation of Larry Sultan's photo memoir is part sitcom " with laugh lines for Nathan Lane " and part family weepie. There's no intimacy amidst the broad strokes and …
Riffing on the origin of humanity, Richard Maxwell crams a lot into a family restaurant.
