Hillary and Clinton NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (491)
See it if you want to spend time with two fascinating individuals who have a unique place in America's history
Don't see it if You want to see a 'big production'...this is small and spare. Read more
See it if You don't tire of thinking about how sexism messes with women's sucess in love and politics & if u want to c stellar performance by Metcalf
Don't see it if You blame Hillary Clinton for every stupid thing Bill Clinton ever did Read more
See it if You are fans of Laurie Metcalf & John Lithgow. They will not disappoint & the show will surprise you. Much better than I anticipated.
Don't see it if you think you've seen enough of the Clintons. You'll be wrong and miss a good show.
See it if for terrific performances by Metcalf, Lithgow, and Orth. See it if you want to feel moved at the end of the show.
Don't see it if you need Hillary and Bill to look like Hillary and Bill. Don't see it if you are not interested in politics or marriage. Read more
See it if You care about power and the quest to attain political immortality. What does it take. You care about marriage power struggles.
Don't see it if You revere Bill and Hill and can hear no ill.
See it if you love to watch great actors.
Don't see it if you want a fully rounded out story.
See it if you want to see a well-acted (not just by Metcalf and Lithgow, but supporting cast as well) show that examines the lives of the Clintons
Don't see it if you are expecting to see actors try to imitate the characters they play or aren't interested in a political play, even if very comic. Read more
See it if You are a fan of the leads. Incredible performances by both accompanied by sharp writing.
Don't see it if You are not interested in politics.
Critic Reviews (51)
“'Hillary and Clinton' reminds us...why Metcalf is so exciting, with her great intelligence and great versatility and her surplus of fierce, nervous energy that barely seems contained...At the core of the play are Bill’s scenes with Hillary and it’s here perhaps that Hnath’s imagination fails. There’s something worn-out and maybe even a little distasteful in viewing Hillary through the prism of her husband, seeing a savvy politician...as, first and foremost, his wife and his victim.”
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"A clear-eyed, incisive look at one of the most fascinating marriages ever...Metcalf is alternately steely, frantic, no-nonsense, desperate and steadfast — and she makes every one of those transitions while looking simultaneously backward and forward. She’s cautious. She’s deliberate. She’s beyond smart...Joe Mantello directs...He’s the minimalist director who fills the stage with the playwrights’ words and actors’ performances. That’s an especially spectacular achievement here."
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"I guess celebrities lose the right to protect their privacy, but I couldn’t see any value in Hnath presenting a fantasy version of events. The actors make no effort to imitate their real-life models, which is probably a plus. Director Joe Mantello keeps things moving briskly...As one would expect, both Ms. Metcalf and Mr. Lithgow are a pleasure to watch. Nevertheless, there seemed to be little point to the enterprise."
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"Metcalf and Lithgow make Hnath’s intriguing behind-the-scenes political premise into a gripping portrait of a complex marriage...In a snappy, idea-packed 90 minutes, Hnath not only addresses a plethora of contemporary concerns about our body politic but also...creates an incisive dissection of a famous couple’s push-pull connection...
Joe Mantello delivers his usual economical, unfussy staging with several inspired moments."
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"The drama scarcely does more than scratch curiosity over the private lives of public figures, and assuage those whose obvious sympathies may have led them through...By stripping the story of its social context — in sharpened hindsight, it’s about nascent gender, race, and class wars — Hnath has thrown the baby out with the bathwater. While Metcalf and Lithgow succeed in making political royalty feel believably flesh-and-blood, the play suffers from a lack of substance."
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“’Hillary and Clinton’ is a depressing form of inept and backhanded fan fiction, the very existence of which is irredeemably sexist. Putting the marriage and choices of one of the most accomplished and celebrated women in American history on stage for yet more public scrutiny is an indignity no male politician would ever face. Great performances aside, this inaccurate and intrusive play’s existence on Broadway feels irresponsible as a matter of civic integrity.”
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"The provocative production features a top-notch Tony Award-winning team that should surely garner more accolades here. Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow star in the titular roles, and, under Joe Mantello’s razor-sharp direction, deliver the biting humor, explosive issues, conflicted emotions, and unwelcome consequences of faulty decision-making in imagined conversations and confrontations that wink at absurdism but ring all-too true."
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"As zippy as 'A Doll’s House, Part 2,' but whereas that felt new, fresh, and subversive, 'Hillary and Clinton' feels like very old and well-trodden ground, a mash-up of every single argument you’ve ever heard (with very little new insight) in favor and against Hillary...Metcalf’s Hillary is a candidate of many weathers, which Metcalf skillfully commandeers: variously intelligent, morose, angry, despairing, determined...But the play also feels as airless as the hotel room we are in."
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