David Cote
@davidcote.bsky.social
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Theater Critic. Playwright. Opera Librettist. Future Dog Daddy.
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Craig Morrison
5 days ago
I've given up Catholicism for Lent. Problem solved.
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This weekâs
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: Cowboy Character Actor Edition! âAinât no mogul but a mooch; he hoist his rowdy squad up here and roost in the busted barn, like moss that bloom acrost a cow skull.â 2/19: HOIST 2/18: MOGUL 2/17: SQUAD 2/16: ROOST 2/15: SKULL 2/14: BLOOM 2/13: MOOCH
6 days ago
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Excellent review of an ugly but very urgent show. If you don't mind your blood running cold by shock jocks urging violence then being jolted by Nirvana's "Rape Me" seconds later, check it out. One is mentally translating the show to an American podcast recording in (looking at watch)...
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8 days ago
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Overhearing the chatter of people in their 20s and 30s while navigating crowded, snow-hedged sidewalks in the West Village on a Saturday afternoon is not conducive to wanting to stay in the city.
12 days ago
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this week's
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: PETA Avenger Edition! âA cello-sad bleat caused rage to surge and hammer like a gavel on her vegan heart, as she beheld a bloody scene that would embed in her brain for years.â 2/12: SURGE 2/11: VEGAN 2/10: SCENE 2/9: CELLO 2/8: EMBED 2/7: BLEAT 2/6: GAVEL
13 days ago
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A European premiere tonight!
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theaterregensburg on Instagram: "Heute um 18 Uhr feiert LUCIDITY Premiere im Haidplatz. ⨠Die Kammeroper LUCIDITY von der Komponistin Laura Kaminsky beleuchtet die âŚ"
Heute um 18 Uhr feiert LUCIDITY Premiere im Haidplatz. ⨠Die Kammeroper LUCIDITY von der Komponistin Laura Kaminsky beleuchtet die Herausforderungen von Demenzerkrankung und die anhaltende Widerstandsfähigkeit von Familien gegenĂźber ihren Auswirkungen.Kaminskys auf Klarheit und Transparenz setzende Partitur fĂźr fĂźnf Musiker*innen verleiht dem Werk eine berĂźhrend- zerbrechliche Aura und zitiert auf sehr wirkungsvolle Weise eine wertvolle musikalische Erinnerung der Hauptdarstellerin Lili. đźWir wĂźnschen allen Beteiligten auf und hinter der BĂźhne ein ganz â¤ď¸-liches TOI TOI TOI! đđđMUSIKALISCHE LEITUNG Tom WoodsINSZENIERUNG Sebastian RitschelAUSSTATTUNG Kristopher KempfDRAMATURGIE Ronny ScholzREGIEASSISTENZ & ABENDSPIELLEITUNG Tomas StitilisLILI Renate BehleDR. CLAIRE KLUGMAN Svitlana SlyviaSUNNY Scarlett PulweyDANTE Davide Pivađ¸Sylvain Guillot#theater #regensburg #haidplatz #premiere #toitoitoi #LauraKaminsky
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19 days ago
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This weekâs
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: Columbo Edition âAllot me one jumbo cigar to swoop in my mouth, and chide me not if said stogie stays unlit as I weigh and puzzle out spiny mysteries.â 2/5: SWOOP 2/4: CHIDE 2/4: WEIGH 2/4: CIGAR 2/4: SPINY 1/31: ALLOT 1/30: JUMBO
20 days ago
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laundry machines in Europe are amazing. Small load takes 2 hours and comes out feeling dirtier than when it went in!
24 days ago
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Check out the exuberant, subject-to-style match of Rhoda Feng's bravura review of ERS's "tasting menu" of Ulysses. Such flowing wit, intertextual frisking between page and her POV of stage & audience. Am gobbling, digesting... (tho not as long as scholars Joyce...)
www.4columns.org/feng-rhoda/u...
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Ulysses
https://www.4columns.org/feng-rhoda/ulysses
26 days ago
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This week's
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: Aristocrat Comeuppance Edition âThe evening light was dusky as the baron, a notoriously cruel, flaky freak, was seen to strut off the edge of a high cliff.â 1/29: FLAKY 1/28: CRUEL 1/27: DUSKY 1/26: FREAK 1/25: STRUT 1/24: CLIFF 1/23: BARON
27 days ago
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Ilhan Omar
30 days ago
Iâm ok. Iâm a survivor so this small agitator isnât going to intimidate me from doing my work. I donât let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
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New work by Ella Baron, political cartoonist at
@theguardian.com
about 1 month ago
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âIn the clink the racer paced a filthy cell, careful not to sully his waxen jumpsuit festooned in logos, now and then glancing out a one-cubic-foot window: bushes of fiery red sumac.â 1/22: CLINK 1/21: CUBIC 1/20: SULLY 1/19: WAXEN 1/18: SUMAC 1/17: FIERY 1/16: RACER
about 1 month ago
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Human suffering: The inexhaustible natural resource from which one can make quite a pretty penny.
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about 1 month ago
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Wouldn't be
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season without HBD to the most sinister of GOATs....
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about 1 month ago
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so end of this month I'm going to Germany (first time!) to see an opera I co-wrote produced in a lovely medieval town. Hoping they will let me in, and I will want to be let out!
www.theaterregensburg.de/produktionen...
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Lucidity
Lili ist eine pensionierte Sängerin und Komponistin, die frßh an Demenz erkrankt ist. Ihr Sohn Dante hat seine Karriere als Pianist geopfert, um fßr sie zu sorgen. Die Medizinerin Dr. Klugman, die den...
https://www.theaterregensburg.de/produktionen/lucidity.html
about 1 month ago
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first NYT review by the redoubtable
@helenshaw.bsky.social
is up, displaying her usual x-ray vision for dramaturgical slippage and minute stage business, peppered with apt and spicy word choices: feint, gait, valence, puffery. Lucky her editor; lucky her readers.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/t...
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âThe Disappearâ Review: A Couple on the Rocks and Out of Sync
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/theater/the-disappear-review-erica-schmidt.html
about 1 month ago
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: Courtroom Drama Edition! âEight minutes until the trial I was manic to avoid; the gumbo I gulped for lunch sluiced up the chasm of my throat and I wished myself tiny as a quark.â 1/15: CHASM 1/14: AVOID 1/13: GUMBO 1/12: TRIAL 1/11: QUARK 1/10: MANIC 1/9: EIGHT
about 1 month ago
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"The collapse of the unseeable into the visible is the downfall arc powering Tracy Lettsâs 1996 Bug, a compact horror romance making its Broadway debut in a vivid but lopsided production at Manhattan Theatre Club."
4columns.org/cote-david/bug
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Bug
https://4columns.org/cote-david/bug
about 1 month ago
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Being a Christian conservative is truly a win-win: use your faith to justify manifold bigotries and supporting a fascist, then suffer no consequences in a nonexistent afterlife.
about 1 month ago
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In this light his face looks like a dirty copper face plate about to slip and fall off.
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about 1 month ago
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This week's
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: Banghra Cowboy Edition! âA raga blast from the sitar-shredding dude on the pecan-colored filly gave the posse proof of his oomph.â 1/8: BLAST 1/7: PECAN 1/6: OOMPH 1/5: FILLY 1/4: POSSE 1/3: SITAR 1/2: PROOF
about 2 months ago
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Sorrowscopes
about 2 months ago
Capricorn: Your desire to travel may be awakened by a pack of pale wolves that surround your apartment complex. Nowâs the time to finally check if that door in the laundry room connects to the old mineshaft. Hurry!!
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âA diptych of an obscure fableâa batch of rotting fruit, a siren serenading a ship making speed through wavesâwas the only extraneous dĂŠcor the abbot kept in his office.â 1/1/2026: FABLE 12/31: SIREN 12/30: DECOR 12/29: FRUIT 12/28: ABBOT 12/27: BATCH 12/26: SPEED
about 2 months ago
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Megan Abbott
about 2 months ago
A New Year's Toast from Patricia Highsmith (and me) đĽđĽ
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He was given free rein to reign freely and freely rain rained that gray day and reigned over my going away, washing away any sovereign sway about my departure today sans delay.
about 2 months ago
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! âSpicy tendrils of myrrh incense rose as I stared hard into the conch, my eye following a glint down its white, calcium spool, a prism or quilt of light, particolored and spinning.â 12/25: PRISM 12/24: SPOOL 12/23: GLINT 12/22: CONCH 12/21: QUILT 12/20: WHITE 12/19: MYRRH
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"Okay, newsroom! Let's make sure we represent both sides when the governments of two nations collude to commit flagrant civil rights and human rights abuses!"
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2 months ago
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If you want to see the segment axed by Little Miss Goebbels (a.k.a. Bari Weiss)
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2 months ago
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My last review before the year goes "poof." A rather unfortunate new Tartuffe.
observer.com/2025/12/revi...
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Old French Bores: Molière Is Blasphemed in This Tin-Eared âTartuffeâ
What a misguided affair from such an accomplished team.
https://observer.com/2025/12/review-tartuffe-bad-matthew-broderick-david-cross/
2 months ago
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: British Sport Edition! âBuilt like a truck but a dodgy miser with the rugby ball, Clive would segue from locker room to grass pitch, warming up with a violent leg swing.â 12/18: RUGBY 12/17: GRASS 12/16: SEGUE 12/15: DODGY 12/14: SWING 12/13: MISER 12/12: TRUCK
2 months ago
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Honored to be one of MANY theater folks asked to weigh in. My suggested plays are the ones that are 100% correct and impeccably wise, well-judged, exquisitely curated, etc.
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2 months ago
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New
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: Socially Awkward Holiday Party Edition! âGuess whoâs among the festive snide, draining a postprandial flute of fizz and wishing he could erase the gravy stain on his bulging waist.â 12/11: GUESS 12/10: ERASE 12/9: SNIDE 12/8: GRAVY 12/7: FLUTE 12/6: WAIST 12/5: AMONG
3 months ago
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Ryan Bernardoni
3 months ago
Stealworkers
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speaking as a journalist who does *not* report non-arts news: I wish the media would not blare "Why This..." or "How This..." headlines before they can accurately report WHAT tf is happening in the first place.
3 months ago
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Reading Dorothy Parker on her theater beat more than a century ago, you reflect⌠maybe things ainât quite so bad today?
3 months ago
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Back to reviewing after a couple months of residencies hither and yon:
observer.com/2025/12/revi...
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Review: âMarjorie Primeâ Tracks the Ghost in the Machine of Artificial Intelligence
As humans are periodically replaced by eager and curious Primes, the audience tumbles headlong into the uncanny valley.
https://observer.com/2025/12/review-marjorie-prime-hayes-theater-june-squibb/
3 months ago
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Normalize characters in their 20s not shoveling slang like parrots
3 months ago
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Recently awarded a NYSCA grant through an application made with Hubbard Hall in Cambridge, New York upstate. With composer Alejandro Zuleta, I'm writing an oratorio called The Lemon Grove Incident, based on an actual school segregation court case in California in 1931. Excited to get working!
3 months ago
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This week's
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. Maternity & Floriculture Edition! âA gruff mother made haste one muggy morn past a tulip field shriveled from mineral leach, her baby with colic and prickly as a patch of cacti.â 12/4: TULIP 12/3: HASTE 12/2: CACTI 12/1: LEACH 11/30: MUGGY 11/29: GRUFF 11/28: COLIC
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John DeVore
3 months ago
My friend
@davidcote.bsky.social
introduced me to Tom Stoppard during intermission of the original run of the Harry Potter Cursed Child magic show: I was starstruck and shy and Stoppard seemed charmed and baffled by the expensive spectacle he had just seen
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Evil Landlord! âPlead no more, I loathe each supplicant vowel; to remain in this dismal hovel, remit one thick bunny ready for the pot, and turn that dough into something I might butter.â 11/27: REMIT 11/26: HOVEL 11/25: PLEAD 11/24: DOUGH 11/23: BUNNY 11/22: THICK 11/21: VOWEL
3 months ago
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A friend of mine is a professional driver for celebrities. Heâs driven movie stars, pop stars, and politicians. I tell him he must be proud of his famous clients. He shrugged. âWhat do I have to chauffeur it?â
3 months ago
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The Sondheim Hub
3 months ago
As we pass Through arrangements of shadows Toward the verticals of trees Forever.
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The A train is absolute dog shit
3 months ago
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: Alt-Arthurian Legend Edition! âWield well the sword, Sir Kevin; clamp it in hand as you clung to nursery toys, and I opine you shall speed any knave to his maker in a lurid grave.â 11/20: GRAVE 11/19: MAKER 11/18: OPINE 11/17: CLAMP 11/16: WIELD 11/15: CLUNG 11/14: LURID
3 months ago
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You're invited to play a puzzle created by David.
www.nytimes.com/games/create...
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Wordle Puzzle Created By David
Choose a word for friends to guess, then share your own puzzle.
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3 months ago
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You're invited to play a puzzle created by David.
www.nytimes.com/games/create...
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Wordle Puzzle Created By David
Choose a word for friends to guess, then share your own puzzle.
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3 months ago
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Las Vegas Swindle Edition! âIf I play the deuce, a fugue of peril may arise, bringing a tabby-cat scarlet tinge to my cheeks, as I pray casino security donât spy the gizmo stuck in my ear.â 11/13: TINGE 11/12: DEUCE 11/11: GIZMO 11/10: TABBY 11/9: FUGUE 11/8: ARISE 11/7: PERIL
3 months ago
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