...VIRGINIA WOOLF? Reviws

[LimelightMike]

Today is Saturday, October 13, marking the return to the Great White Way of George and Martha, the English-speaking theatre's most contentious married couple since Katharina and Petruchio, on Broadway in a new production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — 50 years to the day of its 1962 Broadway premiere.

This incarnation boasts the talents of Tracy Letts and Amy Morton playing the college-town husband and wife — he the history professor, she the college president's daughter — in a staging that premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre Company's home in Chicago in 2010, under the direction of Pam MacKinnon, which began Broadway previews at the Booth Theatre on September 27.

Here's how the 2012 producers characterize the modern classic by Pulitzer Prize winner Albee: "On the campus of a small New England college, George and Martha invite a new professor and his wife home for a nightcap. As the cocktails flow, the young couple finds themselves caught in the crossfire of a savage marital war where the combatants attack the self-deceptions they forged for their own survival. Steppenwolf ensemble members Tracy Letts and Amy Morton face off as one of theatre's most notoriously dysfunctional couples in Albee's hilarious and harrowing masterpiece."

[SondheimFan5]

So will reviews not be out til Monday?

[winston89]

They might be out online, but not in print till Monday. I know, for example, that if you get home delivery of the New York Times, they give you some of the Sunday sections on Saturday. The arts section is one of those sections. So, I do doubt that it will be available at least in print till Monday.

[PatrickDennis92]

I haven't been around and following reviews for that long, but do you think the reviews were all delayed because the Sunday Times is preprinted and the other publications, knowing that the Times is the "authority" decided to wait even though their publications, in many cases, are not preprinted?

[little_sally]

I'd say the NY Times is a rave:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/theater/reviews/tracy-letts-in-whos-afraid-of-virginia-woolf.html?_r=0&adxnnl=1&seid=autolf&smid=tw-nytimesTheater&adxnnlx=1350256865-wedFNF4aovjbh4BXhlaadw

[morosco]

Review Roundup

[Auggie27]

That's a rave, if slightly less glowing for Morton, whom I feel deserves to be feted equally. But a quibble; that's a money review.

[SexyPants88]

so happy to see this show get the great reviews it deserves!

[little_sally]

Me too! I was concerned this show would get lost, considering it's a very familiar play and the production has no recognizable names in the cast so I'm hoping it turns into a hit with these reviews.

[theaterfan862]

...Virginia Woolf is one of my all time favorite plays and I am very excited about this production! It is great to see it received wonderful reviews. I can't wait to see the show in two weeks.

[NewYorkTheater]

Two links here

My review. I call it "a hit…palpably, to the guts." but I also force a quibble http://bit.ly/QnBtQa

And then my ticket giveaway contest, which ends at midnight tonight (October 15th)
Win 2 tickets to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

[RippedMan]

Can't imagine it's too costly to run, so I think with these reviews it should do well.

[chanel]

Another excellent review.

"If he had been born decades later, this George would have gotten his own cable news show."


http://blogs.villagevoice.com/dailymusto/2012/10/whos_afraid_of.php

[aaronb]

I really liked it--but with some reservations. You can read my review here: http://scribicide.com/2012/10/19/the-play-about-the-babies/