Betrayal (Broadway)
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Betrayal (Broadway)
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Betrayal (Broadway) NYC Reviews and Tickets

79%
(446 Ratings)
Positive
84%
Mixed
12%
Negative
4%
Members say
Great acting, Absorbing, Slow, Intelligent, Great staging

About the Show

Harold Pinter's classic play, which tells the story of an extra-marital affair in reverse order, comes to Broadway starring Tom Hiddleston ('The Avengers'), Zawe Ashton ('Velvet Buzzsaw'), and Charlie Cox ('Daredevil').

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Show-Score Member Reviews (446)

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94 Reviews | 9 Followers
89
Intelligent, Great acting, Entertaining, Absorbing

See it if you like plays analyzing personal relationships, full of humor

Don't see it if you want exciting action on the stage or if you don't like plays which go backwards in time Read more

MJK
677 Reviews | 193 Followers
89
Stylish, Absorbing, Great acting, Spartan, Intelligent

See it if u want to see an elegant, brooding, sparsely-staged, expertly-acted, emotionally complex Pinter drama about truth & deception & infidelity.

Don't see it if u prefer ur love-triangle dramas full of mushy sentiment & histrionics (or superhero excessiveness) vs Pinteresque stiff-upper-lip stoicism.

94 Reviews | 28 Followers
89
Intense, Masterful, Intelligent, Great acting, Ambitious

See it if you like Pinter’s plays about relationships. Great acting about adulterous relationships.

Don't see it if if you do not like Pinter plays about people.

JHR
79 Reviews | 25 Followers
89
Intelligent, Great writing, Great acting, Clever, Absorbing

See it if You like spare, insightful plays that emphasize great acting and universal themes.

Don't see it if You must have fast pacing or are impatient with slow, deliberate, non-linear story-telling.

253 Reviews | 46 Followers
88
Must see, Indulgent, These characters can only exist in an harold pinter play!, If only real betrayal were that glamorous!!!

See it if you often fantasize of an ideal fictional love triangle with you as a beautiful, if whimsical woman at its center.

Don't see it if You don't like plays that leave things unresolved. Read more

87 Reviews | 31 Followers
88
Romantic, Great staging, Masterful, Resonant, Absorbing

See it if You like flashback plays and you want to see a truly excellent performance by Tom Hiddleston.

Don't see it if You like sustained pauses (i.e. the "Pinter pauses").

372 Reviews | 84 Followers
88
Resonant, Masterful, Intelligent, Complex, Quiet

See it if a story told quietly with great simplicity and pathos --but fully, emerges like a butterfly from a cocoon

Don't see it if not sure if this is a good date play-- betrayal not a happy topic, but ultimately this is very romantic in a complex way Read more

195 Reviews | 396 Followers
88
Riveting, Masterful, Great staging, Great acting, Absorbing

See it if You like straight forward staging of plays where the focus is on dialogue and character. The cast led by Tom Hiddleston is masterful.

Don't see it if You're not a Pinter fan or you don't like plays, especially one's dealing with infidelity.

Critic Reviews (35)

The Hollywood Reporter
March 14th, 2019
For a previous production

"Tom Hiddleston and Charlie Cox are the men fighting over Zawe Ashton in the London revival of Harold Pinter's consummately structured love triangle."
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BroadwayWorld
March 13th, 2019
For a previous production

★★★★★ "The star power certainly works, but it's just one aspect of the brilliance of this last instalment. Lloyd's direction, combined with the depths of the intricacies of the text, is enough to make the show a well-rounded success of its own."
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Time Out London
March 13th, 2019
For a previous production

★★★★★ "Jamie Lloyd’s Tom Hiddleston-starring production of Pinter’s masterpiece is haunting and profound."
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