A Delicate Balance NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (136)
See it if You love powerful music with an absorbing story and incredible performances.
Don't see it if You do not like stripped down musical productions.
See it if I saw the original production 4 times, this scaled down version is amazing and much better. 3rd time and Heather Headley/Cynthia amazing!
Don't see it if you don't want to cry or be affected by a powerful performance
See it if You wanna see one of the greatest show on Broadway right now
Don't see it if You don't have a heart
See it if You want to see a vibrant, energetic production with great singing.
Don't see it if You want to understand every word. Some lyrics and lines difficult to understand.
See it if you want to see a great play from one of the best playwrights there is. A great uncomfortable drama.
Don't see it if you are looking for light entertainment.
See it if you love an understated drama, love bickering families, love Albee or any of the amazing actors in it, have a tolerance for long monologues.
Don't see it if you can't stand improbably long monologues or repressed drama.
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 want to see a classic
Don't see it if you hate family drama
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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