A Delicate Balance NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (136)
See it if You enjoy plays on relationships with family, friends, ourselves. If you enjoy being faced with our human condition.
Don't see it if You expect laughs and an easy playful night.
See it if you enjoy family dynamics on a gorgeous set with amazing acting
Don't see it if you prefer a big stage musical.
See it if you enjoy good actors doing their thing.
Don't see it if you're looking for a laugh-out-loud escape. This is very much a play about upper-middle class people with upper-middle class problems.
See it if you like great acting with superb direction. One of my fav Albee works, the other who's afraid. A must see with great actors.
Don't see it if Albee is not for everyone, so do some research on Albee first to see if he is for you.
See it if you need, want or have to see Glenn Close on a Broadway stage.
Don't see it if you are more into musicals. Read more
See it if you want to see amazing performers and are willing to look past the vagueness of Albee's plot.
Don't see it if you don't like Albee's writing. I think you really have to be an Albee fan to love this, though the performers are fantastic.
See it if You want to be engrossed in the story
Don't see it if well you don't like it.
See it if I was so disappointed in DB. GClose was dull! No one could lift the show above her dead weight. I wanted one of the many drinks poured!
Don't see it if Albee creates fascinating situations and characters, but this production had no life. Not enjoyable.
Critic Reviews (14)
"Great Edward Albee, tepid production...although the play still dazzles with wit, gorgeous writing and the lurking terror of mortality, Director Pam MacKinnon spells things out here instead of letting Albee toy with us through suggestion and suspense. Nothing, alas, is delicate."
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"As you would expect of these highly accomplished, multi-award-winning cast members, none of them are bad. But they’re giving us the play, instead of living it."
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"Pam MacKinnon directs this solid revival with a keen ear for the curling, teasing rhythms of Albee’s ornate lines, and the performances are top-notch...this Pulitzer winner still stings and sings."
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Things finally become interesting, even zany, in the second scene of the second act. Until then, though, “A Delicate Balance” comes across like a dramatically static rewrite of “Virginia Woolf” with rather less drinking and much less cursing."
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"Whip-smart and wickedly funny, the 1966 play is showcased in a very good production that’s cool, well-composed and captivating."
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"A Delicate Balance is no play for sissies...a brilliantly constructed if ultimately unfathomable play that only Edward Albee can get away with writing."
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"Whether audiences are encountering A Delicate Balance for the first time or for reappraisal, watching the six supremely accomplished actors in this cast bite into their roles is thrilling."
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"Albee's gift to humanity, you might say: a pleasurable three acts of watching others teeter on the brink, which always helps you last another day on terra firma yourself."
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