Linda Vista NYC Reviews and Tickets

79%

(322 Reviews)

Positive

87%

Mixed

10%

Negative

Members say

Great acting, Funny, Great writing, Entertaining, Absorbing

About the Show

Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Tracy Letts ("August: Osage County") takes a brutally comedic look at Wheeler, a 50-year-old divorcee in the throes of a mid-life spiral in this production from Steppenwolf.

From the show:

Just out of his ex-wife’s garage and into a place of his own, Wheeler starts on a path toward self-discovery — navigating blind dates, old friends, and new love. Full of opinions, yet short on self-examination, Wheeler must reconcile the man he has become with the man he wants to be.

Member Reviews (322)

Great staging, Intelligent, Great acting, Funny, Entertaining

See it if This was a really well acted play. Much better than Nebraska. A funny play and moves for the most part quickly. Great ensemble cast.

Don't see it if Full nudity and explicit language. If you dont want politics in a play.

Biting, Raunchy, Disturbing, Edgy, Great acting

See it if Self-loathing man going through mid-life crisis feeds his ego & hurts people. His exaggerated damaged character makes for a lot of drama.

Don't see it if You can’t abide Dick Wheeler, a funny narcissistic misogynist who sucks people in. Maybe too contrived, but maybe not. Nude sex scenes. Read more

Critic Reviews (29)

CRITIC’S PICK "A Womanizer Who Devastates as He Charms: Tracy Letts, the author of 'August: Osage County,' reinvents the midlife crisis play with a hilarity that scalds in this Steppenwolf production."
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4/5 Stars "Tracy Letts's Broadway play is a sharp portrait of a male midlife crisis."
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"When Middle Age Goes Bad, in 'Linda Vista'"
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"Pulitzer- and Tony-winning playwright Tracy Letts' mostly unromantic comedy tracks a misanthropic narcissist in midlife-crisis freefall, and the women caught in his slipstream."
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"His Own Worst Enemy: Tracy Letts’s serious comedy about the midlife crisis of a newly divorced man who doesn’t know how to listen to women comes to Broadway."
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"Your ultimate enjoyment is dependent on how much you can tolerate a white, middle-aged blowhard who stumbles into butt-naked sex with two beautiful women."
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‘Linda Vista’ Broadway Review: Tracy Letts Play Gets Last Laugh On Know-It-All Radiohead Hater"
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"‘Linda Vista’ is Steppenwolf back on Broadway, but out of step"
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"'Linda Vista' turns out to be an engaging, if flawed, portrait of a modern day everyman who's incredibly smart on the one hand while behaving so inexplicably dumb on the other. The bones of this play are all there, but like the 50-year-old Wheeler, the body could use some tightening."
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"'Linda Vista' Has an Ugly View of the Pursuit of Happiness: Tracy Letts writes a midlife crisis for Broadway."
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"'Linda Vista' is a romantic comedy, Tracy Letts-style, which means that the human toll is enormous…Ian Barford, something of a Letts regular, seizes the role of Wheeler for the kind of tour-de-force performance people talk about long after the curtain has fallen."
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"Like 'Groundhog Day' for the neurotically maladjusted."
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5/5 Stars "'Rollicking Comedy on Broadway, from Tracy Letts': The 'August: Osage County' playwright returns with an explosively funny comedy of crotchety manners"
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3/5 Stars "'A View for the Bottom': Tracy Letts pens a startlingly accurate, if tough to swallow, portrait of middle-aged desperation"
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"Tracy Letts’ dark-tinged rom-dram is a portrait of an unsympathetic man in the throes of an ugly divorce and a middle-age tailspin."
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"In ‘Linda Vista,’ one man’s spiral creates a tornado"
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"The play delineates a case of toxic masculinity and will most likely fascinate men and infuriate women. While Dick Wheeler played by Ian Barford…is reprehensible in the comic first act, he is redeemed by the end of the poignant second act where one's sympathies finally go out to him."
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"I enjoyed its…locker-room talk; its…acerbic humor; its steamily raw sexuality…its anti-Trump takedowns; its grittily humane depiction of a rotten man’s decline, and his righteous comeuppance…I also felt discomfort at…its…contrivances and some of its…credulity-stretching behavior."
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"The Misanthrope...If the title were not already taken by a much produced French classic, Tracy Letts might well have called his play about a middle-aged guy who hates everything and everyone -- including himself."
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"As written with dynamic energy and force by the expertly aligned Tracy Letts, Wheeler is one of the more difficult people to want to spend time with, let alone more than two hours. Somehow though, much to our surprise, this dark comedy finds its way to respecting itself."
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"A dismal commentary on marriage, relationships and the alpha male. All this would probably be easily acceptable ten years ago, but in the current socio-political ideology it is difficult to subject an audience to this counterculture even though existing remnants are still being unearthed."
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"Can an underemployed middle-aged jerk be a babe magnet?...Your ability to get past that question – and...your willingness to entertain yet another middle-aged white guy comedy – is a gauge of how much you will appreciate this showcase for some impressive acting and very funny writing."
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"Playwright Tracy Letts asks Broadway audiences to consider the reawakening of men of a certain age, at a certain time, who recognize their multi-generational entitlement is not without perils."
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"Luckily, Letts' razor-sharp skill at dialogue and characterization will keep most of us riveted, even when we're feeling angry, disgusted or just a little sad. More than once, we may even find ourselves wishing for an unlikely happy ending for our less-than-sympathetic anti-hero."
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For a previous production

"Most of the original cast of Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts' 2017 Steppenwolf premiere make it to Los Angeles in this clever and entertaining chronicle of a mid-life trainwreck."
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