Broadway Play Home http://broadwayplayhome.com Learn about Broadway plays and the people who make them, buy show tickets, and enjoy videos from all your favorite shows. Mon, 20 Feb 2017 17:57:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 The Reviews for A Delicate Balance are In… http://broadwayplayhome.com/the-reviews-for-a-delicate-balance-are-in.php http://broadwayplayhome.com/the-reviews-for-a-delicate-balance-are-in.php#comments Sat, 22 Nov 2014 02:20:01 +0000 http://broadwayplayhome.com/?p=2076 The Reviews for A Delicate Balance are in…

John Lithgow and Glenn Close in a new staging of Edward Albee’s drama "A Delicate Balance" at the Golden Theater. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
John Lithgow and Glenn Close in a new staging of Edward Albee’s drama “A Delicate Balance” at the Golden Theater. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF A DELICATE BALANCE

PRETTY CROWDED FOR AN EMPTY NEST

Ben Brantley

Hope arrives in the form of dread toward the end of the first act of Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance, which opened on Thursday night in a revival at the Golden Theater. Up to that point in this production, directed by Pam MacKinnon, it’s been hard to detect much feeling of any kind within the carefully…

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TIME OUT NEW YORK REVIEW OF A DELICATE BALANCE

ALBEE’S PULITZER WINNER STILL STINGS AND SINGS

David Cote

“Time happens, I suppose. To people. Everything becomes…too late, finally.” Thus opines matronly Agnes (Glenn Close). No, she has not been asked to summarize the plot of A Delicate Balance, the Edward Albee parlor puzzler in which she appears—although if you don’t let in this desolating, resonant piece (v…

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WALL STREET JOURNAL REVIEW OF A DELICATE BALANCE

AN ALBEE REVIVAL TRIES AGAIN

Terry Teachout

Everybody knows Edward Albee’s ho’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” Not so A Delicate Balance, which came along four years later, in 1966, and failed to make the same culture-shifting stir. Though it won the Pulitzer Prize that Virginia Woolf absurdly failed to nail, the first production ran for only 132 performance…

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NBC NEW YORK REVIEW OF A DELICATE BALANCE

GLENN CLOSE TIPS THE SCALES IN “A DELICATE BALANCE”

Dave Quinn

If you’re going to do an Edward Albee play, you better be sure you have your bar pretty well-stocked. The Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf playwright loves to get his characters liquored up. It seems to help their deep secrets and personal demons bubble to the surface more quickly. You know — the whole “finding yourse…

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LA TIMES REVIEW OF A DELICATE BALANCE

‘DELICATE BALANCE’ TEETERS SLIGHTLY BUT ALWAYS FASCINATES

Charles McNulty

The setting for Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance is “the living room of a large and well-appointed suburban home,” and scenic designer Santo Loquasto has conjured the scene so sumptuously at Broadway’s Golden Theatre that you can practically hear the tennis balls being hit at the country club down the road. Director Pa…

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]]> http://broadwayplayhome.com/the-reviews-for-a-delicate-balance-are-in.php/feed 0 The Reviews for The River are In… http://broadwayplayhome.com/the-reviews-for-the-river-are-in.php http://broadwayplayhome.com/the-reviews-for-the-river-are-in.php#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2014 04:43:36 +0000 http://broadwayplayhome.com/?p=2065 The Reviews for The River are in…

Hugh Jackman in Jez Butterworth’s play "The River" at the Circle in the Square Theater. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
Hugh Jackman in Jez Butterworth’s play “The River” at the Circle in the Square Theater. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF THE RIVER

A RESERVE SO DEEP, YOU COULD DROWN

Ben Brantley

Hugh Jackman isn’t giving anything away these days. And reticence, it turns out, becomes him. Who knew? In Jez Butterworth’s The River, the poetic tease of a drama that opened Sunday night at the Circle in the Square Theater, Mr. Jackman conveys an impression of mightily self-contained silence, even when he’… 

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TIME OUT NEW YORK REVIEW OF THE RIVER

JACKMAN STRAYS FROM HIS COMFORT ZONE IN THIS WEIRD MEDITATION ON LOVE AND LOSS

David Cote

Jez Butterworth’s elliptical chamber drama is a mystery play in the purest sense: no answers, no closure. As Hugh Jackman (identified only as the Man) interacts with Cush Jumbo (the Woman) and Laura Donnelly (the Other Woman), you may worry over the gals’ well-being: Is Jackman playing a serial womanizer—or someth… 

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VARIETY REVIEW OF THE RIVER

BROADWAY REVIEW: ‘THE RIVER’ STARRING HUGH JACKMAN

Marilyn Stasio

The peculiar configuration of the stage at Circle in the Square creates a sense of close-encounter intimacy that is making Hugh Jackman’s fans very happy. So long as they silence their cell phones and don’t try to snap a photo (after a fervent and apparently necessary pre-curtain request made by the understudy), t… 

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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS REVIEW OF THE RIVER

JACKMAN TAKES JEZ BUTTERWORTH’S DRAMA TO THE NEXT LEVEL WITH A MEASURED, SUPERHERO PORTRAYAL OF A MELANCHOLY ANGLER

Joe Dziemianowicz

If you’re casting the role of a passionate fisherman who’s an irresistible lure himself, Hugh Jackman makes ideal bait. That goes for audiences of The River, at Circle in the Square, where Wolverine is reeling in capacity crowds and giving a striking performance. In this slight but twisty drama by Jez Butterw… 

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VULTURE REVIEW OF THE RIVER

HUGH JACKMAN’S MANLY CHARMS ARE ON DISPLAY IN THE HAUNTING THE RIVER

Jesse Green

What with The Last Ship, Disgraced, and seminude Bradley Cooper all on the boards this fall, Broadway is more testosterony than usual, full of scruff and blowtorches, beefcake and wife-beating. But nothing beats Jez Butterworth’s new play The River for manliness: It’s got Hugh Jackman, Wolverine himself… 

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]]> http://broadwayplayhome.com/the-reviews-for-the-river-are-in.php/feed 0 The Reviews for The Real Thing Are In… http://broadwayplayhome.com/the-reviews-for-the-real-thing-are-in.php http://broadwayplayhome.com/the-reviews-for-the-real-thing-are-in.php#comments Fri, 31 Oct 2014 04:19:04 +0000 http://broadwayplayhome.com/?p=2050 The Reviews for The Real Thing are in…

Maggie Gyllenhaal and Ewan McGregor in “The Real Thing.” Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Ewan McGregor in “The Real Thing.” Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF THE REAL THING

WHEN THE HEAD LEADS THE HEART

Ben Brantley

Do not be misled by the title. Authenticity is conspicuous only by its absence in the tinny revival of The Real Thing, which opened on Thursday night at the American Airlines Theater. Evidence of real feelings, real chemistry and real life in general is dishearteningly scarce in this interpretation of Tom Stoppard’s 1982 … …

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TIME OUT NEW YORK REVIEW OF THE REAL THING

STOPPARD’S BRAINY LOVE STORY MELTS OUR HEARTS

David Cote

One of the finest speeches in Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing (and there are several), concerns the absolute value of good construction, using a cricket bat as an example. Henry (McGregor), an emotionally moderate but aesthetically conservative playwright, explains to second wife, Annie (Gyllenhaal), that they’re specially built to give maximum propulsion to the struck ball. “What we’re trying to d… …

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ASSOCIATED PRESS REVIEW OF THE REAL THING

‘THE REAL THING’ IS THOROUGHLY EXCELLENT

Mark Kennedy

A thoroughly excellent and tuneful version of Tom Stoppard’s brilliant play about love and fidelity opened Thursday at the American Airlines Theatre, directed by Sam Gold and featuring a dozen songs, both sung onstage by the actors between scenes or wafting out of record players. The Roundabout Theatre Company …

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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY REVIEW OF THE REAL THING

THE REAL THING REVIEW

Thom Geier

Tom Stoppard is justly renowned for his erudition and wit, but in his 1980s drama The Real Thing he also found a (philandering) heartbeat beneath all the allusions to Strindberg, Wilde, Coward, and Herman’s Hermits. The hero is a Stoppard-like playwright named Henry (Ewan McGregor), who dr…

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HOLLYWOOD REPORTER REVIEW OF THE REAL THING

IN A PLAY THAT SHOULD TOY WITH THE DIVIDING LINES BETWEEN TRUTH AND ARTIFICE, ARTIFICIALITY DOMINATES

David Rooney

Ewan McGregor makes an assured Broadway debut as Tom Stoppard’s semi-autobiographical stand-in, an erudite playwright struggling to tame the slippery concept of love in his writing as well as his personal life in The Real Thing. Maggie Gyllenhaal also brings poise and sophistication t…

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]]> http://broadwayplayhome.com/the-reviews-for-the-real-thing-are-in.php/feed 0 The Reviews for Disgraced are In… http://broadwayplayhome.com/the-reviews-for-disgraced-are-in.php http://broadwayplayhome.com/the-reviews-for-disgraced-are-in.php#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:46:32 +0000 http://broadwayplayhome.com/?p=2043 The reviews for Disgraced are in…

From a slow simmer to a raging boil: From left, Gretchen Mol, Hari Dhillon, Karen Pittman and Josh Radnor in “Disgraced,” directed by Kimberly Senior. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
From a slow simmer to a raging boil: From left, Gretchen Mol, Hari Dhillon, Karen Pittman and Josh Radnor in “Disgraced,” directed by Kimberly Senior. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF DISGRACED

WHEN THE SOUL MUST BE HEARD

Charles Isherwood

“Bon appétit!” The festive phrase announcing the start of a meal sounds more like a bell signaling another round in a prizefight when it is chirped by Gretchen Mol, playing a hostess whose dinner party has become a verbal jousting tournament in Ayad Akhtar’s terrific, turbulent drama Disgraced. By this poi… 

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TIME OUT NEW YORK REVIEW OF DISGRACED

A PULITZER PRIZE WINNER SCORES POLITICAL POINTS

David Cote

As a friend and I left Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced, which premiered two years ago, nabbed the Pulitzer Prize and recently moved to Broadway, he mused that you don’t see a lot of in-depth “issue” fare in pop culture. Even Homeland’s ripped-from–Al Jazeera realism is a cover for spy-versus-spy melodrama, and th… 

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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY REVIEW OF DISGRACED

DISGRACED REVIEW

Thom Geier

Ayad Akhtar’s topical play Disgraced, the worthy winner of last year’s Pulitzer Prize for drama, continues a long tradition of theater that explores the costs of assimilation for minority groups in the great American melting pot. In this case, we get an engaging snapshot of the challenge for upwardly mobile Muslim… 

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ASSOCIATED PRESS REVIEW OF DISGRACED

BROADWAY’S ‘DISGRACED’ IS RAW, BLISTERING

Mark Kennedy

What does Miss Manners say about how to ensure dinner conversations remain polite? Never bring up politics or religion. Thankfully, playwright Ayad Akhtar minds her no heed. Akhtar’s blistering Disgraced opened Thursday on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre with a punch and power that won it a Pulitzer Prize. Few play… 

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NBC NEW YORK REVIEW OF DISGRACED

RACIAL, RELIGIOUS TENSIONS FLARE UP OVER DINNER IN “DISGRACED”

Dave Quinn

There are some topics you just shouldn’t discuss at a dinner party. Religion, race, politics — it’s probably good to avoid these controversial matters altogether, and focus on more agreeable subjects. Like the weather. Perhaps if the two couples in Disgraced would have taken that advice, they would have av… 

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]]> http://broadwayplayhome.com/the-reviews-for-disgraced-are-in.php/feed 0 The Reviews for It’s Only a Play are In… http://broadwayplayhome.com/the-reviews-for-its-only-a-play-are-in.php http://broadwayplayhome.com/the-reviews-for-its-only-a-play-are-in.php#comments Fri, 10 Oct 2014 03:11:32 +0000 http://broadwayplayhome.com/?p=2034 The reviews for It’s Only a Play are in…

"It’s Only a Play": From left, Rupert Grint, Megan Mullally, Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane and Stockard Channing in Terrence McNally’s ribald play at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
“It’s Only a Play”: From left, Rupert Grint, Megan Mullally, Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane and Stockard Channing in Terrence McNally’s ribald play at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF IT’S ONLY A PLAY

WELL, DID WHAT’S-HIS-NAME LIKE IT? MATTHEW BRODERICK, NATHAN LANE AND STOCKARD CHANNING IN ‘IT’S ONLY A PLAY’ ON BROADWAY

Ben Brantley

Big names drop like hailstones in Terrence McNally’s It’s Only a Play, the kind that look like diamonds from a distance and then melt away before you know it. As a star-struck young man observes at the beginning of this deliriously dishy revival, which opened Thursday night at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater (and is… 

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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY REVIEW OF IT’S ONLY A PLAY

IT’S ONLY A PLAY IS A POISON-PEN MASH NOTE TO NEW YORK THEATER, AT ONCE GLEEFULLY BITCHY AND AFFECTIONATE

Thom Geier

It’s taken more than three decades for Terrence McNally’s backstage comedy It’s Only a Play to make it to Broadway. The show was bound for the Great White Way in 1978 until a disastrous Philadelphia tryout derailed those plans. But McNally never completely abandoned the project, which is set at the posh Manhattan townhouse of…

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VARIETY REVIEW OF IT’S ONLY A PLAY

NOBODY DOES MEAN-NASTY-VICIOUS LIKE TERRENCE MCNALLY, BLESS HIS BLACK HEART

Marilyn Stasio

The setup for this showbiz comedy is perfect: The producer, playwright, director and star of a new Broadway show, along with friends and foes, are huddled upstairs in the producer’s townhouse, anxiously awaiting the reviews, while a raucous opening-night party rages downstairs. After an initial false step in 1978 (w… 

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HOLLYWOOD REPORTER REVIEW OF IT’S ONLY A PLAY

BROADWAY BUDDIES MATTHEW BRODERICK AND NATHAN LANE HEAD AN ALL-STAR CAST IN TERRENCE MCNALLY’S IRREVERENT BACKSTAGE COMEDY

David Rooney

There are 26 credited producers on the Broadway production of Terrence McNally’s theater-biz satire It’s Only a Play, and presumably nobody will be laughing harder than those guys at the zingers about the phalanx of moneymen who now regularly mob the Radio City stage when winners are announced on Tony Awards night.… 

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ASSOCIATED PRESS REVIEW OF IT’S ONLY A PLAY

‘IT’S ONLY A PLAY’ IS WICKEDLY FUNNY

Mark Kennedy

Terrance McNally’s play is not so much a love letter from a shy, smitten admirer as a mash note sent by a stalker who’s written it in capital letters and smeared it with what may be bodily fluids. Whatever it is, it’s a pure hoot, a rollicking comedy with perfect casting and deft direction in Jack O’Brien that gleefully dis… 

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]]> http://broadwayplayhome.com/the-reviews-for-its-only-a-play-are-in.php/feed 0 The Reviews for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Are In… http://broadwayplayhome.com/the-reviews-for-the-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time-are-in.php http://broadwayplayhome.com/the-reviews-for-the-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time-are-in.php#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2014 18:46:59 +0000 http://broadwayplayhome.com/?p=1944 The reviews for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time are in…

Alex Sharp and Enid Graham in "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," a new Broadway play that opened Sunday at the Ethel Barrymore Theater. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
Alex Sharp and Enid Graham in “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” a new Broadway play that opened Sunday at the Ethel Barrymore Theater. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME

PLOTTING THE GRID OF SENSORY OVERLOAD

Ben Brantley

Ever had one of those days in the city when you feel like you forgot to put your skin on? Sure you have. It happens when you haven’t slept, or you drank too much the night before, or you’ve been brooding over bad news. All your senses, it seems, have been heightened to a painful acuity; your nerve endings are standing on gu… 

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TIME OUT NEW YORK REVIEW OF THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME THEATER REVIEW

David Cote

Despite the Sherlock-derived title and gruesome crime scene it opens with, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time solves the case relatively quickly. By the end of the first act we know whodunit (that is, impaled a pooch with a pitchfork) and we’ve gotten another revelation, this one having to do wit… 

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ASSOCIATED PRESS REVIEW OF THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME

B’WAY’S ‘THE CURIOUS INCIDENT’ IS DAZZLING

Jennifer Farrar

A boy reaches out to pet a neighbor’s dog. It sounds so cozy, except the dog onstage that begins the Broadway production of the National Theatre’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time has just been murdered with a giant garden pitchfork. Aside from that grisly initial image, the New York produc… 

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HOLLYWOOD REPORTER REVIEW OF THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME

THE SMASH BRIT HIT THAT SWEPT LONDON’S OLIVIER AWARDS ARRIVES ON BROADWAY IN A DAZZLING PRODUCTION FROM THE DIRECTOR OF “WAR HORSE”

David Rooney

Direct from sell-out London runs at the National Theatre and in the West End,The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time crosses the Atlantic to Broadway with a boatload of deserved acclaim and awards, both for Mark Haddon’s novel and for playwright Simon Stephens’ and director Marianne Elliott’s kin… 

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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS REVIEW OF THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME

A COMPELLING BLEND OF MYSTERY AND SELF-DISCOVERY PROPELS FINE ADAPTATION OF MARK HADDON’S NOVEL, STARRING ALEX SHARP, FRANCESCA FARIDANY AND ENID GRAHAM

Joe Dziemianowicz

Bow-wowza! To crack the case of a murdered mutt, a boy goes on a remarkable journey in the eloquently theatrical and deeply touching adaptation of Mark Haddon’s 2003 novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Set in and around London, the story is about family, pain and discovery — and the show…

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]]> http://broadwayplayhome.com/the-reviews-for-the-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time-are-in.php/feed 0 The Reviews for The Country House are in… http://broadwayplayhome.com/the-reviews-for-the-country-house-are-in.php http://broadwayplayhome.com/the-reviews-for-the-country-house-are-in.php#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2014 15:42:20 +0000 http://broadwayplayhome.com/?p=1941 The reviews for The Country House are in…

"The Country House": Blythe Danner stars in this Donald Margulies play, a Manhattan Theater Club production at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
“The Country House”: Blythe Danner stars in this Donald Margulies play, a Manhattan Theater Club production at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF THE COUNTRY HOUSE

‘VANYA’ AND ‘SEAGULL’ AND MASH-UP AND SPITE BLYTHE DANNER STARS IN ‘THE COUNTRY HOUSE’

Ben Brantley

Blythe Danner’s voice makes its entrance before she does. “Da-ahr-ling!” it cries out from the wings in that familiar italicizing rasp, and a gratified ripple of recognition runs through the audience. The applause begins even before Ms. Danner’s willowy form flutters into view. That “darling” is the first word heard

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TIME OUT NEW YORK REVIEW OF THE COUNTRY HOUSE

DONALD MARGULIES HEADS TO THE BUCOLIC BERKSHIRES FOR HIS LATEST COLLABORATION WITH MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB

Adam Feldman

Timing is everything. Donald Margulies respectfully raids the Chekhovian thematic pantry in The Country House, which arrives on Broadway in an elegant production staged with customary polish by Daniel Sullivan and starring Blythe Danner in a role that overlaps with her own professional history. But coming in th

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HUFFINGTON POST REVIEW OF THE COUNTRY HOUSE

IS DONALD MARGULIES’S ‘COUNTRY HOUSE’ TOO CHEKHOVIAN OR NOT CHEKHOVIAN ENOUGH?

David Finkle

Some plays about actors, acting and other theater concerns can be quite good–a worthy example being Anton Chekhov’s 1895 work, The Seagull. Most plays about actors, acting and other theater concerns, however, are not so rewarding. Sorry to say that one of them is Donald Margulies’s newest comedy-drama, The Country Hou

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HOLLYWOOD REPORTER REVIEW OF THE COUNTRY HOUSE

BLYTHE DANNER PLAYS A VETERAN ACTRESS WHOSE FAMILY GATHERS IN THE BERKSHIRES IN DONALD MARGULIES’ CONTEMPORARY HOMAGE TO ANTON CHEKHOV

David Rooney

Timing is everything. Donald Margulies respectfully raids the Chekhovian thematic pantry in The Country House, which arrives on Broadway in an elegant production staged with customary polish by Daniel Sullivan and starring Blythe Danner in a role that overlaps with her own professional history. But coming in the wake of Ch

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NBC NEW YORK REVIEW OF THE COUNTRY HOUSE

“THE COUNTRY HOUSE” IS NO VACATION

Dave Quinn

If there’s one thing we’ve learned, it’s that a trip to the country is never quite as relaxing as it seems. Just ask Anton Chekhov, Terrence McNally, Stephen Sondheim, Noël Coward, Christopher Durang, David Ives, Theresa Rebeck, Laura Eason or Sharr White — all who have all put their characters through turmoil while

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]]> http://broadwayplayhome.com/the-reviews-for-the-country-house-are-in.php/feed 0 The Reviews for You Can’t Take It With You are in… http://broadwayplayhome.com/the-reviews-for-you-cant-take-it-with-you.php http://broadwayplayhome.com/the-reviews-for-you-cant-take-it-with-you.php#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2014 13:48:09 +0000 http://broadwayplayhome.com/?p=1928 The reviews for You Can’t Take It With You are in…

"You Can’t Take It With You": Kristine Nielsen, Rose Byrne, Annaleigh Ashford and James Earl Jones in a revival of Kaufman and Hart’s 1936 comic account of a Depression-era household, at the Longacre Theater. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
“You Can’t Take It With You”: Kristine Nielsen, Rose Byrne, Annaleigh Ashford and James Earl Jones in a revival of Kaufman and Hart’s 1936 comic account of a Depression-era household, at the Longacre Theater. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU

SCREWBALL MAGIC DOES THE TRICK ‘YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU,’ HANDLED PROPERLY, AGES WELL

Ben Brantley

The only downside to the unconditional upper called You Can’t Take It With You, which wafted open last night at the Longacre Theater, is that it may strain previously underused muscles around your mouth. That can happen when you spend two-and-a-half hours grinning like an idiot. A lot of shows can make … 

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NBC NEW YORK REVIEW OF YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU

A JOYOUS “YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU,” WITH JAMES EARL JONES

Robert Kahn

James Earl Jones, more often a lion who roars, instead brings a soft steadiness to his role as the family patriarch in You Can’t Take It With You, the Moss Hart-George S. Kaufman comedy—a perennial favorite that first arrived during the Great Depression—now enjoying a revival at the Longacre Theatre. You Can’t T… 

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ASSOCIATED PRESS REVIEW OF YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU

‘YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU’ CRAZY, UNEVEN

Mark Kennedy

You know the play you’re watching might be a little long in the tooth when there are jokes about Eleanor Roosevelt, the Works Project Administration and Calvin Coolidge, and it makes reference to the nation’s 48 states. As in not 50 yet. The Great Depression was still palpable when Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman… 

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HUFFINGTON POST REVIEW OF YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU

YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU’ TAKES YOU WITH IT MERRILY

David Finkle

On the way into You Can’t Take It With You, the revival at the Longacre of the 1936 George S. Kaufman-Moss Hart comedy, I ran into Anne Kaufman Schneider. For those who don’t know, Schneider is Kaufman’s daughter and the primary keeper (now that Kitty Carlisle Hart is gone) of the collaborators’ flame. S… 

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HOLLYWOOD REPORTER REVIEW OF YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU

CHOCK FULL O’ NUTS AND STILL A DELICIOUS TREAT

David Rooney

With its spirited defense of lives lived for sheer joy rather than for achievement, ambition, financial gain or rank, the 1936 play You Can’t Take It With You proved an escapist tonic in the midst of the Great Depression. It has remained irresistible in the decades since, in particular to anyone ambivale… 

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“Love Letters”: Mia Farrow and Brian Dennehy, who will be succeeded by other couples in A. R. Gurney’s two-person play at the Brooks Atkinson. TODD HEISLER / THE NEW YORK TIMES

NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW OF LOVE LETTERS

THE MUTED MELANCHOLY BETWEEN THE LINES BRIAN DENNEHY AND MIA FARROW IN ‘LOVE LETTERS’

Charles Isherwood

The dying art of putting pen to paper to exchange news is being celebrated on Broadway this fall. Love Letters, A. R. Gurney’s durable epistolary play, in which two actors sit on comfortable chairs onstage and read from the lifelong correspondence between a man and a woman from the East Coast upper crust… 

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NBC NEW YORK REVIEW OF LOVE LETTERS

DENNEHY AND FARROW ARE LETTER-PERFECT IN A.R. GURNEY REVIVAL

Robert Kahn

To truly appreciate all that Love Letters has to offer, just sit there and listen. A.R. Gurney’s 1988 drama, now enjoying a vibrant revival at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, has no set, so there’s not much in the way of distraction. Paired actors—Brian Dennehy and Mia Farrow are up first, in a rotatio… 
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ASSOCIATED PRESS REVIEW OF LOVE LETTERS

‘LOVE LETTERS’ ON BROADWAY WITH BRIAN DENNEHY AND MIA FARROW IS A THIN MISSIVE

Mark Kennedy

September 18, 2014: What’s the minimum requirement for putting on a play? Is it performers? Sets? Memorization? Surely, at a minimum, it’s acting, right? More than a quarter-century after Love Letters premiered, A.R. Gurney’s charming ditty of a play has landed on Broadway with virtually none of the characteristics of what 

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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY REVIEW OF LOVE LETTERS

STAGE REVIEW LOVE LETTERS

Thom Geir

September 18, 2014: Dennehy, a two-time Tony winner, has been a steady presence on Broadway in the last few decades–and he brings a stalwart, hunched-over gravitas to Andrew, a self-serious young man who’s brief youthful indiscretions naturally give way to a Rockefeller-Republican conservatism. The real surprise here is Farrow, ret

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HOLLYWOOD REPORTER REVIEW OF LOVE LETTERS

‘LOVE LETTERS’ THEATRE REVIEW

David Rooney

September 18, 2014: A table, two chairs and a pair of actors reading from scripts on an otherwise bare stage sounds like one notch up from a radio play. But A.R. Gurney’s deceptively simple 1988 epistolary two-hander, Love Letters, is that rare work whose emotional richness requires no embellishment in order to become a ful

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"This Is Our Youth": Kieran Culkin, left, and Michael Cera star in a Broadway revival of Kenneth Lonergan’s play at the Cort Theater. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
“This Is Our Youth”: Kieran Culkin and Michael Cera star in a Broadway revival of Kenneth Lonergan’s play at the Cort Theater. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW

DESPERATE FLEDGLINGS, FLUNG FROM THE NEST ‘THIS IS OUR YOUTH’ STARS MICHAEL CERA, KIERAN CULKIN AND TAVI GEVINSON

Ben Brantley

Just watch these bodies in motion: loping, flying, dancing, vamping and writhing at an altitude known only to the permanently high and perpetually crashing. The acrobatics being performed in Anna D. Shapiro’s sensational, kinetically charged revival of Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth, which opened … 

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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY REVIEW

THIS IS OUR YOUTH REVIEW

Thom Geier

It’s been nearly two decades since Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth first appeared with its searing portrait of college-age entitlement and ennui. The drama, which helped launch the career of Mark Ruffalo as well as Lonergan, is now back in a crackling Broadway revival by director Anna D. Shapiro that … 

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ASSOCIATED PRESS REVIEW

3 MILLENNIALS HONOR ‘THIS IS OUR YOUTH’

Mark Kennedy

A truly well-oiled — should we say well-rolled? — revival of Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth opened Thursday on Broadway at the Cort Theatre with a super cast of rising-star millennials playing Gen-Xers. Michael Cera, making his New York stage debut, once again perfectly captures being an awkward man-boy … 

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AM NEW YORK REVIEW

‘THIS IS OUR YOUTH’ REVIVAL STILL RINGS TRUE

Matt Windman

Chekhov meets Gossip Girl in This Is Our Youth, Kenneth Lonergen’s bruising but sensitive comedic drama about insecure and unsure teens living on the Upper West Side in the early 1980s. Since its 1996 Off-Broadway premiere, it has been acclaimed for its frank, casual depiction of affluent youth … 

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TIME OUT NEW YORK REVIEW

KENNETH LONERGAN’S 1996 BREAKOUT PLAY GETS A BELATED BROADWAY DEBUT

David Cote

Funny how yesterday’s manboy becomes today’s sad old guy. But that’s always been Michael Cera’s trick, hasn’t it? Ever since he grew a cult fan base as frozen-in-the-headlights teen George Michael Bluth on Arrested Development, then starred in a series of instant-classic indie comedies (Juno, Superbad) … 

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