This Thursday we’re in for a real treat: David Cote, Time Out New York’s chief theater critic, is going to speak to us about his career path from director/performer to one of the most influential theater critics in the city. He’ll talk about the challenges of his work and discuss some particularly insightful and controversial reviews he's written, and answer your questions about the ups and downs of the reviewer’s life.
In addition to working for TONY, David has written for the New York Times, Maxim, Opera News and The Best Plays Theater Yearbook 2005-2006 and 2006-2007. He is a member of the New York Drama Critics Circle, a contributing critic on NY1’s On Stage, and the author of two books – Wicked: The Grimmerie, a behind-the-scenes look the Broadway musical Wicked, and a new book about Jersey Boys. David keeps a foot in the theater scene as well. In the 1990s, he was a performer and director, mostly in avant-garde productions below 14th Street by Richard Foreman, Richard Maxwell and others. Now he’s the Public Dramaturge for Montclair State University’s cutting-edge Peak Performance series. He received his B.A. from Bard College. He muses about theater, books, and religion on his blog, www.histriomastix.typepad.com.
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Adam Feldman, David Cote's colleague at Time Out, came and spoke with Theater TRaC on Friday November 2nd! Looks like we've got some cross-pollination going on.
Great. We really enjoyed David's visit. Had he not told us that journalists barely make a living wage, we'd probably have a dozen prospective Time Out New York reviewers. Maybe some will brave it anyway. He made the job sound like a lot of fun.
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