Junk NYC Reviews and Tickets

77%
(449 Ratings)
Positive
83%
Mixed
14%
Negative
3%
Members say
Great acting, Absorbing, Intelligent, Relevant, Great staging

About the Show

Lincoln Center Theater presents Pulitzer Prize-winner Ayad Akhtar's new drama about an '80s junk bond king out to change the rules of the financial world. Starring Steven Pasquale as Robert Merkin.

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509 Reviews | 337 Followers
79
Absorbing, Great acting, Great staging, Thought-provoking, Relevant

See it if A well staged, sleek production about wall street. It is educational in terms of showing us how we got to where we are today.

Don't see it if You are not interested in learning the recent history of wall street. Read more

261 Reviews | 70 Followers
79
Great acting, Great staging, Great writing, Intelligent, Relevant

See it if Crisply written beautifully staged reviving memories of the debt driven 80s exploring greed vanity power and loss of moral compass for $

Don't see it if You are bored by financial jargon and don’t want to revisit Michael Milken/Boesky era Read more

567 Reviews | 151 Followers
78
Ambitious, Entertaining, Banal, Indulgent

See it if Perceptively loaded title of leveraging debt and thinly-disguised Miliken get the Lincoln Center treatment. Big production values.

Don't see it if The past predicts the future and all its relevant glories are on display as we're asked to make connections from unions to boardrooms & back

60 Reviews | 23 Followers
78
Entertaining, Ambitious, Great acting, Great staging, Intelligent

See it if you enjoy complex stories and are knowledgeable about the corporate/financial doings in the 1980's

Don't see it if you don't care anything about financial or economic topics Read more

114 Reviews | 52 Followers
78
Absorbing, Ambitious, Great acting, Intelligent, Great writing

See it if you’re interested in what our major playwrights want to tackle and want to be amused and entertained

Don't see it if you expect groundbreaking answers to life’s major questions Read more

121 Reviews | 47 Followers
78
Absorbing, Ambitious, Dense, Thought-provoking

See it if you are interested what was behind 80’s market scandals. Beautifully staged and well-acted. If you enjoyed the Big Short or Madoff stories.

Don't see it if Money manipulation is of no interest. If you don’t want to concentrate hard to follow the dense dialogue and plot with supporting concepts. Read more

184 Reviews | 30 Followers
78
Clever, Ambitious, Great acting, Great staging, Great writing

See it if you enjoy ambitious drama recalling he me me me 80's. This fast pace show will take you put in the middle of the action.

Don't see it if if you lost your shirt in the junk stock market.

242 Reviews | 44 Followers
78
Great staging, Intelligent, Intense, Thought-provoking, Brilliant set

See it if you enjoy challenging material on a serious subject which is not always easy to follow, brilliantly staged, and based on true events.

Don't see it if you only want to be entertained and you don't want to have to deal with conflict and angry confrontations.

Critic Reviews (51)