David Cote & Adam Feldman's 2016 Tony Award predictions by David Cote and Adam Feldman

The 70th annual Tony Awards will be broadcast on CBS on June 12 from the Beacon Theatre. So now it's time for our annual tradition, dear reader, of bestowing our can't-lose predictions about…

The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois: Theater review by David Cote

Drama cannot happen without a controlled release of information that keeps the characters in the room and the audience wanting more. It helps to have vivid dialogue, an unpredictable plot an…

Paramour: Theater review by David Cote

The global neocircus giant Cirque du Soleil does things no else on Broadway can. Its acrobats execute quadruple backflips off a teeterboard, their heels seeming to brush the rigging high abo…

Incognito: Theater review by David Cote

British playwright Nick Payne excels at a subgenre let's call the Science Weepie. He deploys facts to frame or metaphorize the problems of his protagonists, and the collision of data and hum…

Daphne's Dive: Theater review by David Cote

Bars are outstanding factories for human suffering"and deliverance. Everywhere from Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh to Louis C.K.'s hauntingly great web series Horace and Pete, watering h…

A Streetcar Named Desire: Theater review by David Cote

There's a fiery revival of Tennessee Williams's great drama buried under the truckload of 1990s regietheater clichés that Benedict Andrews dumps all over St. Ann's Warehouse's playing space…

TALES OF THE RECONSTRUCTION by David Cote

George C. Wolfe s reimagining bursts with joy and style.

Shuffle Along: Theater review by David Cote

The full title of this extraordinary showbiz excavation-renovation masterminded by George C. Wolfe"Shuffle Along or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed"is very …

Tuck Everlasting: Theater review by David Cote

At the dramatic crux of Tuck Everlasting, a 102-year-old man trapped in a 17-year-old body asks an 11-year-old girl to wait six years until she's legal, at which point she will drink from a …

Waitress: Theater review by David Cote

One's sorely tempted to praise the delightful new musical Waitress using lots of bakery metaphors. After all, its hero is a pastry genius with relationship woes named Jenna (Jessie Mueller).…

Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again: Theater review by David Cote

KING FOR A DAY by David Cote

The regicide and rebellion of the history plays are on full display in this fine feast of Shakespeare.

The Best Arthur Miller Plays by David Cote

From Death of a Salesman to his first show on Broadway, Time Out New York's David Cote ranks Arthur Miller's 10 best plays

AGE OF TERROR by David Cote

Arthur Miller’s penetrating study of the Salem witch trials is expertly adapted to resonate today.

The Crucible: Theater review by David Cote

There are two types of audience members attending Ivo van Hove's The Crucible: those who take their seats and, when the curtain rises, wonder, Why's it set in a classroom? and the other half…

The Effect: Theater review by David Cote

For a play about test subjects going through extremes of sadness, lust, joy and despair, The Effect leaves you slightly cold.

She Loves Me: Theater review by David Cote

Desire is chemical, or so the scientists say. When that special someone draws near, their scent can cause a fuss in the hypothalamus, prompting a rush of dopamine, adrenaline and oxytocin. P…

WALKING GHOSTS by David Cote

David Harrower’s hellishly compelling play reaches deep into the psyches of two characters marked by a past experience.

Her Requiem: Theater review by David Cote

Contrived and gently pretentious, Greg Pierce's Her Requiem is the Off Broadway equivalent of a New Yorker short story (an improvement, I suppose, on all the new plays that seem like Netflix…

THE YEAR OF HAMILTON by David Cote

There was plenty on offer on Broadway this past year, but one musical took the cake.

Noises Off: Theater review by David Cote

Explaining why a thing is funny is hard enough. Trying to account for something you know is hilarious"but then isn't"is tougher still. Case in point: The Roundabout Theatre Company has reviv…

Fiddler on the Roof: Theater review by David Cote

Although the titans Zero Mostel, Jerome Robbins and Harold Prince are reflexively linked to this 1964 classic, there's another, uncredited, father of Fiddler on the Roof. It's Marc Chagall, …

RANTS WITHOUT RAVES by David Cote

Mamet and Pacino hand over an ungainly and pretentious monologue.

Marjorie Prime: Theater review by David Cote

Despite the built-in obsession with gadgets, science fiction always orbits back to a familiar subject: human psychology. All those robots, rockets and aliens are just shiny metaphors for our…

Lazarus: Theater review by David Cote

New York Theatre Workshop's sold-out, buzzy Lazarus is hard to describe. Blame the holiday season, but I feel it's like one of those old-timey TV Christmas specials, in which an isolated cel…

School of Rock: Theater review by David Cote

Ever see the pitch-perfect 2003 Jack Black comedy School of Rock? Then you know what to expect from the musical version: fake substitute teacher Dewey Finn frenetically inspiring his charges…

Invisible Thread: Theater review by David Cote

At-risk, education-deprived teens in one of Africa's poorest nations. Frustrated musical-theater creators living in Queens. You wouldn't expect these demographics to meet, much less improve …

Misery: Theater review by David Cote

Early in Misery, ex-nurse Annie Wilkes (Laurie Metcalf) informs novelist Paul Sheldon (Bruce Willis) that after a horrible car accident, he's been in a coma for four days. Make that four day…

A View from the Bridge: Theater review by David Cote

Shatteringly tough revivals such as A View from the Bridge can inspire dueling emotions. First, obviously, there's immense satisfaction and gratitude that Belgian director Ivo van Hove digs …

Allegiance: Theater review by David Cote

Sweetly traditional grandfather Ojii-chan (George Takei) practices Japanese customs, such as hanging wind chimes, tending his garden and origami. As an example of the last, he folds a page f…

ROYAL FLUSH by David Cote

Mike Bartlett s audacious verse drama appropriates the style of Shakespeare.