Long Day's Journey into Night NYC Reviews and Tickets
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Show-Score Member Reviews (436)
See it if Want to see great acting by a very accomplished cast.Leslie Manville is mesmerizing.
Don't see it if You are not into family dramas and cannot sit for almost four hours.
See it if you want to see great performances, especially Jessica Lange and Gabriel Byrne, in a true american mid-century classic.
Don't see it if 4 hours is just too long, especially if you don't like family dramas.
See it if You like a grand poetic work of literature, that makes you think about the human condition. Jessica Lange is amazing.
Don't see it if You are not up for a nearly 4 hour play.
See it if you want to see a lucid, well-spoken, respectful revival of an amazing play with beautifully crafted performances all around.
Don't see it if three and a half hours is going to be too much for you
See it if you want to see a fine production of an American classic w/ impressive performances. Autobiographical aspects are fascinating and sad.
Don't see it if you can't sit for 4 hours, and you're not up to really concentrate. Also don't see it if family drama doesn't interest you.
See it if you want to see excellent acting.
Don't see it if don't like the classics.
See it if Absolutely loved this show. I see why Jessica Lnage won a Tony. Every actor had me engaged. Very long but well worth it.
Don't see it if If you can't sit through a 4 hour play then this is not for you.
See it if you love Eugene O'Neill and are dying to see a revival of his magnum opus. The writing is too good to miss, even if the actors over do it.
Don't see it if you can't behave yourself in a theater for 4 hours. The worst part of the show was the badly behaved audience the night I saw it.
Critic Reviews (41)
"Brevity and subtlety are not among O’Neill’s strengths…The fourth and final act seemed endless...The first problem for me was that Shannon is so much bigger than Byrne that he literally and figuratively overshadows him. In a restrained performance, Byrne is not convincing as a former matinee idol. Lange’s Mary, on the other hand, is much too theatrical for my taste...Jonathan Kent’s direction does not produce a unity of approach from the actors. "
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“Rarely do audiences get to witness a performance so rich and fully realized that it’s hard to imagine anyone else has ever played the part. Jessica Lange is delivering just such an indelible, knockout performance...Director Jonathan Kent’s revival of O’Neill’s ode to regret otherwise has much to recommend its nearly four-hour run time...Whether Lange’s performance feels too close to home or helps you realize your family isn’t so effed up after all, it’s not one you’re likely to forget."
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"Jessica Lange has here written the dictionary on various forms of nuanced, nervous laughter, fluttering hands, darting eyes, and erratic vocal change. The actress embodies power, desperation, and fragility with equal conviction…Much of this play has the Tyrone family staring at each other or brooding in a corner. There’s also a great deal of anxious, aimless walking and hapless gesturing. Kent successfully holds tension and guides focus during these evocative parentheses."
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"It's Lange's nuanced, quietly wrenching performance that anchors the new revival…This staging, by British director Jonathan Kent, doesn't pack the emotional or theatrical wallop of its predecessor, but its bleak naturalism remains compelling for 3 ½ hours (excluding a 15-minute intermission). Though the venue is large, Kent keeps the performances relatively intimate, and painfully accessible...The striking Michael Shannon brings a flush of earnestness to Jamie."
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"The temptation is to talk all day and into the night about Jessica Lange as Mary Tyrone...This really is, with perhaps one miscalculation, a stunning revival of this churning family exorcism...Nothing gets in the way of O’Neill’s emotional rhythms, which come in waves and mood swings of lumbering honesty, outbursts and apologies, litanies of accusation and self-recrimination. Everyone has betrayed everyone else in this great play, but O’Neill makes us believe in them all."
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“Jessica Lange gives one of the most transcendent stage performances seen in years...What this production, beautifully directed by Jonathan Kent, lets you see is the deep love that's shared in American drama's most famous dysfunctional family...The acting company isn't perfect. Gallagher is a bit too modern, and the mostly very good Shannon is occasionally an awkward fit...Byrne, though, makes a compelling James, an ideal companion for Lange's haunted Mary.”
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"Roundabout’s first-rate take on O’Neill’s 'Long Day’s Journey'…Director Jonathan Kent guides the simple and elegant, nearly 4-hour-long production…Leads Lange and Byrne share an effortless chemistry…Lange is magnetic as the family matriarch…This is a solid production of a canonical play. The actors inhabit their characters with as much truth as can be mustered: Lange, for one, seems so immersed that we feel as if we were watching some real Mary Tyrone.”
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"Just under four hours long, I’ve always felt the play could use a little weight, but I don’t really question Mr. O’Neill’s decision to pound his points home...I do know I was held spellbound throughout, and I don’t think the playwright himself could have wished for a finer ensemble than the one assembled here...This production, under the very tight direction of Jonathan Kent, will send you out into the night after a nourishing and provocative theatrical experience."
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