BATHHOUSE.PPTX NYC Reviews and Tickets

73%
(16 Ratings)
Positive
50%
Mixed
50%
Negative
0%
Members say
Ambitious, Confusing, Quirky, Funny, Edgy

About the Show

Jesús I. Valles' meditation on queer longing, grief, and reality.

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Show-Score Member Reviews (16)

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73 Reviews | 10 Followers
100
Thought-provoking, Must see, Masterful

See it if You love intelligent theatre with marvelous gut-wrenching performances and full frontal male nudity.

Don't see it if You're a hater. If you're not open to discussions about race and gender equity and colonialism you will not like this.

1180 Reviews | 343 Followers
84
Edgy, Clever, Funny, Great acting, Great writing

See it if you like a little history on cleanliness, showering and bathing that morphs into a gay bathhouse stories both past and future.

Don't see it if you don't like nudity, presentation-like performances with slides, or if you want to sit for almost two hours without an intermission.

535 Reviews | 137 Followers
83
Ambitious, Quirky, Explicit

See it if you're into funny, original & exciting experimental theater that is hard to pin down, a hallucinatory graphic exploration of gay bathhouses

Don't see it if you dislike plays that are form-adventurous but thematically meandering. A bit of a messy play, I'm still not sure what it was trying to say

79 Reviews | 14 Followers
78
Titillating, Thought-provoking, Edgy, Confusing, Ambitious

See it if You like experimental theater and exploring how coming out and sexual freedom has evolved (or not) since the 70s. You like off-off- Broadway

Don't see it if if you want a linear line of thought and plot, or feel uncomfortable with sexually explicit topics/conversations. Performances were mixed.

503 Reviews | 96 Followers
69
Relevant, Edgy, Funny, Confusing, Ambitious

See it if and only if you are looking to reminisce over the "good old days" of going to gay bathhouse, here in New York or around the world.

Don't see it if you aren't Gay, are gay but younger than 40 years old, and just never had the opportunity to experience a gay bathhouse - YOU will be LOST! Read more

152 Reviews | 12 Followers
66
Indulgent, Confusing, Cliched, Banal, Ambitious

See it if You want to learn about the history of bathhouses…in a pretty crazy way. You want to see nudity and some stimulated sex. Cool set.

Don't see it if If you are a prude. If gay topics offend you. If you don’t like nudity or sex.

332 Reviews | 53 Followers
65
Slow, Titillating, Disappointing, Banal

See it if you want to see cute guys in towels or less.

Don't see it if you want a believable plot or entertaining play.

213 Reviews | 9 Followers
62
Quirky, Confusing, Ambitious

See it if You like non traditional storytelling. You have an interest in the queer world of the past.

Don't see it if You want a show that knows exactly what it is. Read more

Critic Reviews (3)

Theatermania
March 25th, 2024

"...is a thrillingly transgressive concept executed in the blandest way possible."
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TheaterScene.net
March 26th, 2024

"the show is, in essence, episodic and, as such, confusing and perplexing."
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New York Theater
March 23rd, 2024

"funny, forlorn, full-frontal, yes a mess; but if a work in progress, a memorable one."
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