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Review: Idina Menzel Goes Out on a Limb in Eco-Musical ‘Redwood’

Menzel remains an indomitable diva in this well-intentioned misfire.

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David Cote

Review: Is ‘Urinetown’ Still Good to the Last Drop?

Nearly a quarter century after its Broadway debut, the Tony winning musical is back at City Center Encores. Does its ghoulish giddiness still work?

10.02.2025 5

David Cote

Review: The Distant Future Is Already Ancient History in AI Drama ‘The Antiquities’

The human race is presented like a museum exhibit—a grimly compelling concept, but one that makes for a glitchy play.

05.02.2025 1

David Cote

Review: ‘English’ Speaks Eloquently of Language and Loss

Pulitzer Prize winner Sanaz Toossi's play about a group of Iranians studying for the Test of English as a Foreign Language transfers to Broadway in an...

24.01.2025 3

David Cote

Review: Does A Race-Critical ‘Show Boat’ Weather the Winds of History?

This minimalist staging strips 'Show Boat' to its bones, scraping away a century of cultural rust and sentimentality to reveal an often deeply sad and...

16.01.2025 30

David Cote

Review: Audra McDonald Is One Mother of a Rose in a Stupendous Gypsy

Audra McDonald in Gypsy Julieta Cervantes At the end of, shall we say, a testing year, it seems perverse to cheer for a malignant narcissist, a...

20.12.2024 20

David Cote

Review: Libs Own Themselves in the Sharp and Infectiously Funny ‘Eureka Day’

Bill Irwin, Thomas Middleditch, Amber Gray, Jessica Hecht and Chelsea Yakura-Kurtz in Eureka Day Jeremy Daniel Manhattan Theatre Club’s new dramedy...

18.12.2024 10

David Cote

Review: Kenneth Branagh’s ‘King Lear’ Howls Into A Stormy, Rushed Muddle

Shakespeare never lacks for juicy insults, and King Lear is especially thick with verbal abuse. The unhinged title monarch viciously curses his...

15.11.2024 2

David Cote

Review: ‘Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!’ Is A Crazy Avant-Garde Flashback

I have little appetite to spend the next four years gloomily referencing current events in my reviews, so let’s get this out of the way. It was a...

11.11.2024 1

David Cote

Review: ‘In The Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot’ Tries to Think Outside the Box

How sadly apt, to attend In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot the day after Jeff Bezos ordered The Washington Post to refrain from endorsing a...

30.10.2024 2

David Cote

Review: Juliet Is Fire, Romeo Got Mad Rizz In This Shakespeare Glowup

Last time I reviewed a Shakespeare play staged by the daring and gifted Sam Gold, I led with a cheeky question about bowls of soup slurped by the...

25.10.2024 2

David Cote

Review: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Sunset Boulevard’ Ready For Its UHD 4K Close-Up

The latest revival of Sunset Boulevard —glossily stark and aggressively meta—puts several shades of lipstick on a pig. “Shades” being black, white,...

21.10.2024 6