Ohio State Murders (Broadway) NYC Reviews and Tickets

77%

(293 Ratings)

Positive

79%

Mixed

14%

Negative

Members say

Great acting, Absorbing, Slow, Intense, Ambitious

About the Show

Six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald returns to Broadway in Adrienne Kennedy's thrilling classic.

Tony award winner Audra McDonald stars as writer Suzanne Alexander, who goes back to her alma mater as a guest speaker to explore the violence present in her writing. Adrienne Kennedy’s mysterious, suspenseful, and prescient play examines the destructiveness of racism in our society.

This production marks acclaimed playwright Adrienne Kennedy's Broadway debut, at age 91. Tony Award winning director Kenny Leon (Fences, A Soldier’s Play) helms the history-making production.

The play will be the inaugural production in the newly renovated and renamed James Earl Jones Theatre (previously known as the Cort Theatre).

Show-Score Member Reviews (293)

100

Riveting, Intense, Intelligent, Great writing, Great acting

See it if you have any questions about why Audra McDonald has 6 Tonys. Her acting is perfect and mesmorizing.

Don't see it if everyone must see this

100

Heartbreaking, Masterful, Absorbing, Riveting, Great acting

See it if Audra McDonald give the performance of a lifetime. She seamlessly alternates from old to young to old. Bryce Pinkham is also amazing

Don't see it if Not for the queasy. The plot reveals the details of a toddler's death.

Riveting, Must see, Great writing, Great acting, Absorbing

See it if you are a fan of true stories told in an deliberate manner

Don't see it if you want to laugh and want humor

Intelligent, Great acting, Edgy, Absorbing

See it if you like an excellent actress unpeeling the onion and revealing a story layer by layer.

Don't see it if you are expecting Audra to burst into song.She is a superb actress and shows us her stuff in this one.Subtle acting, honest, nuanced.

Must see, Masterful, Great staging, Great acting, Absorbing

See it if you are a fan of the amazing Audra. This is a heart-crushing production. Not to be missed. SO DISAPPOINTED it didn't have it's full run.

Don't see it if if you don't want to see something that is sad. But please, it is something not to be missed.

Intense, Relevant, Great acting, Great staging, Great writing

See it if you want to see the first Broadway production of a major writer and an amazing performance from the incomparable Audra McDonald

Don't see it if you're looking for something light

Intense, Great staging, Great writing, Great acting, Absorbing

See it if Audra McDonald’s performance is a must see

Don't see it if You prefer light material

Great acting, Absorbing

See it if There is not a better acted show on Broadway. Audra McDonald is sensational.

Don't see it if If you like lots of special effects and spectacle. Ms. McDonald IS the spectacle.

Critic Reviews (22)

"Not that the 75-minute play, first performed in 1991, is coldblooded or didactic...it is painful both in the story it tells and in the immense effort expended to tell it properly."
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"The chills that periodically shoot through this play are part of the same cold front as the steady, muffling whiteness that falls gently in its background."
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"It feels as if Kennedy herself has seen all this from a distance, and already predicted the weather patterns. She leaves us here, uncertain, in the snow."
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“ 'Ohio State Murders' is not a mystery, nor is it structured around conventions of suspense — the crimes are right there in the title, and disclosures about its victims and perpetrator occur almost incidentally."
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“ 'Ohio State Murders' leaves a lasting imprint—I picture a bloody handprint—on what for lack of a better term I’ll call the soul."
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"Like nervous parents giving their kids a bit more attention than they might need, Ohio State Murders in a production that’s sometimes just much for its own good, portentous when it needn’t be, with a here-and-there vibe of being overcooked when pared-down simplicity might be called for."
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"It’s an absorbing, observant and admirably peculiar character study with stinging parallels to today. What the one-act drama comes just short of is being meaty."
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