My Name is Lucy Barton NYC Reviews and Tickets
Member Reviews (159)
See it if you love solo shows, altho this isn't gr one. Much more fun to see LL in Little Foxes. Not much humor, not much insight. Dull staging.
Don't see it if Story is an uninsightful therapy session. Not worth time/money. LL is excellent actress; she deserves a worthy vehicle! Pretentious drivel.
See it if You want to experience a stunning performance of an extraordinary play. Linney holds your attention for every second. Great lighting.
Don't see it if If you had a particularly painful mother/daughter experience this might be too much-or it might just be cathartic. I would guess the latter. Read more
Critic Reviews (28)
CRITIC’S PICK. "Laura Linney Finds Her Perfect Match: Ideally cast as a plain-spoken woman made of quiet steel, she acts the way Elizabeth Strout writes in this compelling adaptation of the 2016 novel."
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"3/5 Stars. "'My Name Is Lucy Barton' is being produced in association with Penguin Random House Audio, which will release a recording of it early next month. That might be the show's ideal form...It feels neither like a novel nor quite like a fully realized play."
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"'My Name Is Lucy Barton' Comes to the Stage As a Glum, Gray Dud"
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"Laura Linney plays a writer recalling an interruption to her long estrangement from her emotionally withholding mother in playwright Rona Munro's solo adaptation of the Elizabeth Strout novel."
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Grade: A-. "Laura Linney makes memory mesmerizing in 'My Name is Lucy Barton'"
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"Laura Linney reprises her starring role in the one-person play that premiered in London last year."
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"Portrait of Perseverance: Laura Linney stars in a solo show about a woman who overcomes a mysterious illness, an abusive childhood and an emotionally absent mother."
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"Laura Linney Is a Marvel in Solo Play ‘My Name Is Lucy Barton’"
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"A Mesmerizing Laura Linney Conjures A Life (Or Two) In Broadway’s ‘My Name Is Lucy Barton’"
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"Laura Linney, going it alone on Broadway as both a mother and her estranged daughter"
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"In ‘My Name is Lucy Barton’ on Broadway, Laura Linney shines in a complex solo play set in fictional Illinois"
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"Laura Linney shines in Broadway’s blah ‘My Name Is Lucy Barton’"
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"Lucy Barton,’ Broadway’s first new play of 2020, a heavy & discomforting drama"
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"Laura Linney Is All Alone in My Name Is Lucy Barton: Linney brings the solo stage adaptation of Elizabeth Strout's novel from London to Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre."
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"Laura Linney Plays Both Sides of An Uneasy Mother/Daughter Relationship in 'MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON'"
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"If you want to see what a great stage actress at her peak looks like, I can do no better than suggest a visit to the Samuel J. Friedman."
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"Laura Linney gives a lovely, polished performance in this adaptation of a bestselling novel, but the entire enterprise comes off as too literary and not nearly theatrical enough."
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4/5 Stars. "Things are not what they seem in this compelling play starring the altogether wonderful Laura Linney"
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4/5 Stars. "Emotions are carefully measured and sentimentality is in short supply in 'My Name Is Lucy Barton,' the very fine (and very faithful) stage adaptation of Elizabeth Strout's novel"
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"Despite Laura Linney's customary charm and sparkle, this inert monologue chugs along, telling a familiar and stiffly novelistic tale of class trauma passed from mothers to daughters down the years."
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"Laura Linney shimmers in ‘My Name Is Lucy Barton’"
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"Under Richard Eyre's unobtrusive direction, Laura Linney gives a lovely and compelling portrait of a woman who has lived through much grief but has come out the other side whole. As Lucy Barton, she put an entire woman's life on the stage in a dense and compact 90 minutes."
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"Olive Strout's melancholy memoir adapted as a solo play with Laura Linney deftly narrating in the voice of both the mother and daughter whose brief reunion drives the plot."
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Score: 80%. "I am confounded. I don't know what 'My Name Is Lucy Barton' is. I know what it is not. It is not a play. Which, in and of itself might not be a bad thing if a person could latch onto whatever it is and go for a ride. I could not find a latching-on place."
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"Adapted by the detailed Rona Munro, the precise entrance of the lead makes it clear that this one act one woman play is going to dive into family dysfunction from a foggy memory stance."
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"A sometimes poignant, often tedious 90-minute monologue…Rona Munro's stage adaptation is too faithful to the novel...Our complex and satisfying relationship to the printed page is erased, but it is not replaced by any strenuous effort to make this work explicitly theatrical."
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"Many theatregoers will recognize the universals in Lucy's story and empathize with her dilemma…but there's an ordinariness to the material that lacks dramatic impact. Simply put, what may read well on the page becomes unexceptional on the stage."
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"The only moments where I completely believed Linney were at the play's end, when Lucy speaks as the fiercely independent, successful writer who has made peace - more or less - with her past and her decision to escape it."
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