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Theater Critic. Playwright. Opera Librettist. Future Dog Daddy.
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adopted this as my personality from age 15 to 24.

This week’s #Wordle sentence. Woodsy Stroll Edition! “Crossing the grassy glade, comfy in the elite taupe tracksuit which she found on offer at the camp, Claudia felt a chanting thrum oddly by her ear.” 6/26: OFFER 6/25: COMFY 6/24: ELITE 6/23: ODDLY 6/22: THRUM 6/21: GLADE 6/20: TAUPE

Headline of my review of the Atlantic Theater Co's latest is factually accurate, but by the end, Abby Rosebrock's snaky storytelling makes you wonder: who's the mess and who's the pest? observer.com/2025/06/revi...

"Dexy's Midnighte Runneres" ys a name that doth 100% fit seamlesslye ynto the Star Wars universe

Two of Danny Boyles best movies are unbeatable sequels. This is one of them. 150wordreviews.substack.com/p/150-word-r...

Buy a baby a basket Fox blows its damn gasket

Ukraine, Latvia, Germany, and Poland theatre can’t help but be shadowed by war and retrenchment, though there's still joy and art to fight for. David Cote reports on Poland's Kontakt Festival.

Comedy sketch in which a filthy tiny awful dive bar has a huge spotless deluxe bathroom with attendant for the scumbag clients

This week's #WordleApp sentence. Poe-Inspired Edition! “A prank, bilge—a petty curio in your cabinet of cruelty—to say, ‘Beware the ghost,’ just so I quail and munch my lips in fear.” 6/19: CURIO 6/18: MUNCH 6/17: PRANK 6/16: PETTY 6/15: QUAIL 6/14: GHOST 6/13: BILGE

Happy Father's Day!

This week's #Wordle sentence. Co-Op Edition! “Taffy was a vixen who favored plaid and she sat on the board that determined whether to reuse my lease or void it, and when I asked, she wouldn’t edify me.” 6/12: VIXEN 6/11: PLAID 6/10: TAFFY 6/9: BOARD 6/8: LEASE 6/7: REUSE 6/6: EDIFY

If Donald Trump and Elon Musk were both on fire and you only had one fire extinguisher, where would you hide it?

This is some grindhouse Robert Rodriguez shit.

This week’s #Wordle sentence. Actuarial Edition! “Cease to preen every datum; your admin habit is always to smooth the rough idiom of reality into fact.” 6/5: DATUM 6/4: CEASE 6/3: ADMIN 6/2: PREEN 6/1: ROUGH 5/31: HABIT 5/30: IDIOM

it's not so much a piece of theater changing the world as one that tries to change theater

on my headstone: PITHINESS AND TRUTH. But in Latin

This week's #Wordle sentence: Con Artist Edition! “His grift, which he viewed as sport, was to shuck his red suede loafers and tell the office drone in the plane seat next to him about his polar manse.” 5/29: MANSE 5/28: POLAR 5/27: SPORT 5/26: DRONE 5/25: GRIFT 5/24: SUEDE 5/23: SHUCK

Huge news in arts funding in San Francisco. This has been talked about for years, and now it's finally happening. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Thank you for your service, @johndevore.bsky.social

On the one hand, I'm glad right-wing conservatives are so scared that our country is evolving toward greater equality that they've installed an ethnofascist puppet dictator to serve billionaires. On the other hand, they're doing that.

This week’s #Wordle sentence: Elizabethan Editor Edition! “Livid hath he grown, fain would pitch alarm with bitter cry borne unto the firmament by weedy errata espied in the fifth line of the folio.” 5/22: FOLIO 5/21: ALARM 5/20: BORNE 5/19: PITCH 5/18: LIVID 5/17: GROWN 5/16: FIFTH

"Hugh Jackman: Do Stand So Close to Me. Not a rejected title for the Wolverine actor’s residency at Radio City Music Hall." observer.com/2025/05/revi...

working hard to deserve this headstone

Now the ex-president of the Kennedy Center has made a statement to rebut "false allegations" about her tenure. In writing this story, it was wild to try to summarize all the reporting the Chronicle has done on the center just since (checks notes) February: www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Lots to enjoy with the latest revival of BUS STOP at Classic Stage Company: observer.com/2025/05/revi...

This week’s #Wordle sentence: 97 lb. Weakling Edition! “Was he aware the dowel-thin bicep that he flexed with eager pride shone pale as yeast or tripe or the skin of a bongo?” 5/15: EAGER 5/14: BONGO 5/13: AWARE 5/12: BICEP 5/11: DOWEL 5/10: YEAST 5/9: TRIPE

T∀LKING HE∀DS - Remain In Light (1980). Happy birthday, David. #nowspinning #vinyl #artrock #talkingheads

🔥 DAMN! — @benniegthompson to @kristinoem: “I’m glad you found time among your many photo ops and costume changes to testify.”

I've been empaneled - May 21 at the Salmagundi Club! www.broadwayworld.com/article/Mimi...

If dictatorship was really based on charisma, these would be the United States of Natasha Lyonne.

Saw this absolute delight last night. Sweet, horny, fragile high-school weirdos blurring lines between theater and life. Should return @ the Public or elsewhere, as recent Clubbed Thumb shows did. @loreningrid.bsky.social captures so vividly Dana's shifty mix of memory play and backstage comedy.

At an upper west side diner listening to two late middle aged douchebags discuss the pros and cons of various broadcasts and apparently they’re on a first name basis with “Tucker.” 🤮

Looking forward to the articles in five years about ex-ICE officers suffering PTSD for all the pain they inflicted asking forgiveness etc etc

New #Wordle sentence. Fishing Date Edition! “It was balmy on the lake that afternoon Patsy caught a trout, about which she kept bragging and whose macho boyfriend when they got back to the suite shouted: SHUSH!” 5/8: BALMY 5/7: MACHO 5/6: SUITE 5/5: SHUSH 5/4: TROUT 5/3: PATSY 5/2: WHOSE