American Psycho NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (827)
See it if You love everything 80's but not enough that you forget what it was really like. You have.a slightly warped sense of humor. Brilliant cast
Don't see it if You are easily offended or have a weak stomach
See it if you read the book, you saw the movie and you like it. I'm a Bret Easton Ellis reader and fan. The soundtrack of the movie is superb.
Don't see it if you don't like killing scenes, blood, murders scene. You get inside a murder head and it is not pretty. But it has a lot of style. Read more
See it if You enjoy extremely dark musicals and/or appreciate hunky semi-naked men.
Don't see it if The concept of a slasher musical repels you or if you dislike ambiguity.
See it if You love subtle, nuanced theater that's showing you the world in a new and thrilling way.
Don't see it if You plan on comparing Ben Walker to Christian Bale. This is not Patrick Bateman from the movie.
See it if You remember the 80s in all its big-shouldered glory. Or if you're in the mood for some serious eye candy.
Don't see it if You have an aversion to simulated blood.
See it if you are ready to have your limits pushed and don'T mind lots of sex and violence. This is not for the feignt of heart or stomach
Don't see it if you don't like blood and gore and lots of beautiful bodies, mostly naked doing the nasty,
See it if You are a fan of Duncan Sheik.
Don't see it if You don't like dark shows.
See it if you like dark, edgy shows with interesting scores
Don't see it if you get queasy around a little blood
Critic Reviews (77)
"This distinctively modern show offers an uncomfortable mix of hilarity and horror…Under the masterfully precise direction of Rupert Goold, this roller-coaster ride will have you peering over your shoulder at the well-dressed patrons behind you…Everyone in the cast excels in this vocally and physically challenging show…Unfortunately, the dragging second act is wrapped up by a sung conclusion that tells us what to think about what we have just seen."
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"Rarely has a team of top talents so thoroughly conspired to deprive the audience of an entertaining evening...The show is a largely pleasure-free excursion...Opportunities for satire are exhausted after one or two scenes...A better musical score might at least have given the story a jolt of energy...'American Psycho' has two things going for it: The first is Benjamin Walker...The production also benefits from a dazzling physical production. "
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“A big, Broadway misfire...The heroes here are a shimmering sextet called Huey Lewis and the News, who produced one of the few worthwhile songs and the only memorable moment in this sterile, static, and flat-out frustrating evening...Sacasa and Goold prevent anything from catching fire. To where can you build when you telegraph the end from the beginning as fearlessly as the creative team here does?...This 'American Psycho' is too square to be hip.”
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“Based on the Brett Easton Ellis novel which led to the equally controversial movie, this ‘American Psycho’ has been given a sensational high-concept production by Rupert Goold. The story of a Wall Street investment banker who moonlights as a serial killer by night is a high-camp satire of the conspicuous consumption, greed and excesses of the late 1980’s. As anti-hero Patrick Bateman, charismatic Benjamin Walker returns to Broadway for the first time since ‘Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson’.”
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“The workmanlike script and lyrics evoke the aspirations and anxieties of Reaganite America...Sheik's pleasant though bland musical score replicates effectively the moods of pop hits of the day...Lacking the acute sense of danger that effective horror stories must have, 'American Psycho' relies for thrills on the Grand Guignol pleasures of its top-flight design team...This anemic new musical adds little, if anything, that's noteworthy to what Brett Easton Ellis said 25 years ago.”
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"Converting such a crazy, confounding and notorious novel into a Broadway show is no easy task and the results here are applaudable but inconsistent. At its worst, the show is muddy and plodding. But at its best, American Psycho is a high energy, top-of-the-line visual spectacle with catchy songs and strangely mesmerizing choreography...At the end of it all, Patrick Bateman explains to us that he has no clear sense of self. I’d say the same about the show he lives in."
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"For those who will undoubtedly see a reflection of the very same shallow New York they still inhabit, the show will be the most terrifying experience they’ve had on Broadway...The show becomes a provocative character study, rather than have the audience study, judge and dissect Patrick and company, we are invited to develop empathy for them, something which proves to be challenging, discomforting and ultimately quite moving."
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"'American Psycho' is jagged and edgy, but sadly, the intensity is limited and it falters in its engagement...The music and songs are penetrating, loud, and harsh in a perfect 1980s kind of way, and in this lies the problem. It does look amazing, graphic and violent, but alienated with little underneath...At times I loved the critique and the irony, but as with sarcasm, it gets tiring after a time, and just leaves you as cold and isolated as the Wall Street bankers."
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