721 stories by "David Cote"
Cross-cultural tension looms over Sanaz Toossi's English, an understated classroom dramedy about the things we lose in crossing linguistic borders.Â
Wagner's message is a simple but deeply humanistic one: We're all specks in the universe, random, unknowable bio-containers, and who knows where my atoms end and yours begin?
One thing I am certain of: 'Company' is the most sophisticated fun I've had in a theater in ages.
It's a downbeat fable about escaping the toxic narcissists who created your body.
It's a patriarchal pangender fantasy that simultaneously de-centers and re-centers cishetero masculinity. Fancy lingo for: kinda outdated and icky.
He will continue to shape the future of musical theater because he trained our ears, set the bar high, and new composers and lyricists will study his work. For a hundred who try, misguidedly…
You absolutely must see it if you care about Black work on Broadway, American theater, and the evolving state of our "canon."
Who knows if musical fiascos such as 'Diana' exist solely for the bitter amusement of theater critics?
I can't be the only Sondheim nerd sick of respectful, minimalist approaches.
Embracing absurd and cringe humor while bringing it to theater, 'While You Were Partying' is for theater lovers who grew up online.
I'm not actually 100% sure we are worthy of this show, but we need its complexity and density.
Here's the thing about this harrowing fugue state of a play, written by Lucas Hnath and directed by Les Waters: O'Connell never speaks.
The world is getting weirder by the day. I think the audience is ready for it now.
On at the Manhattan Theatre Club, 'Lackawanna Blues' explores survival and finding heart in your own life, backed by harmonica.
There's no plot to Six, just an agreement among the ex-wives to compete (in song) for who had the hardest time.
The fall 2021 season is bustling with excellent theater about Black stories, experiences, and joy. From the experimental to new favorites.
Playwright Jocelyn Bioh's 'Merry Wives' marvels audiences at Shakespeare in the Park with a modern approach to the canon.
Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu's "Pass Over" has the makings of a modern and Black retelling of "Waiting for Godot" yet stands alone, moving.
The enemy of the people is misanthropic technocrats! No! It's selfish, amoral politicians! No! The enemy of the people is…people?
At 'Seven Deadly Sins' "Â a suite of short plays staged in storefronts in the Meatpacking District " it's still under glass, this time with writhing, exotic specimens offered up for moral …
Our top theater picks for summer 2021, full of wicked performances from 'Whore's Eye View' to 'Tiny House.'
This American Wife sets out to be an avant-garde, haute-camp allegory of seduction, corruption, and betrayal that conspicuously consumes itself.
The National Theatre's 'Romeo and Juliet' focuses refreshingly more on the angst of these star-crossed lovers than the heat.
Given that the event is automated except for ushers and operators, you're effectively both spectator and live performer.
Unfolding in 90 minutes of hospital visits, "Men's Health" is sort of "Pygmalion" with its pants off.
