Significant Other NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (606)
See it if Great acting, relationships
Don't see it if Nothing
See it if You like shows about love and romance that also explore the complexity of friendships between straight and gay people.
Don't see it if You don’t like neurotic main characters.
See it if If you are single and in your 20s/30s
Don't see it if You're a cynic. Read more
See it if Quirky clever humor.
Don't see it if Looking for a happy feel good show. Took a bit of a sad turn I felt
See it if you sometimes feel left out among your friends who seemingly are all getting married.
Don't see it if you can't stand hearing someone complain, even in a show.
See it if you like laugh-filled comedies with engaging characters...and a serious side, to boot.
Don't see it if a story about an unattached millennial wallowing in self-pity isn't quite your "thing". Read more
See it if you can identify with the trials of being single among all your friends who are getting married
Don't see it if looking for something light. While this does have its funny moments, they are balanced by some intense ones.
See it if you like slice-of-life plays dealing with gay issues
Don't see it if you are looking for a deeply intense play
Critic Reviews (63)
"Though there are plenty of details that identify this brightly performed play as belonging to the immediate present, 'Significant Other' often seems to hail from another era...Despite a thoroughly engaging and interdependent ensemble, which conveys the prickly intimacy of longtime acquaintance, 'Significant Other' ultimately talks too much and too explicitly...The play’s structure can start to feel like a sustained musical vamp with only slight variations."
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"Gay characters in mass culture often serve as supportive accessories in the marriage plots of others, but Harmon keeps Jordan in sharp, brutally revealing focus...Glick delivers a star-making, gut-wrenching performance of deep sweetness and quicksilver mood shifts...Directed with ideal snap by Trip Cullman...Don’t underestimate the value of a smart new American romantic comedy on Broadway: It’s a rare thing indeed, and worth celebrating."
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"Although Joshua Harmon’s sour comedy has many fine supporting qualities — wit, a neat structure, lacerating dialogue, and a clutch of terrific performances from a cast led by Gideon Glick — they don’t have very much to support...Director Trip Cullman has tightened the staging tremendously, vanishing the dead spots...Despite all the tightening, and all the emotion, 'Significant Other' is still a lot like one of those rituals: a happy occasion, somehow, yet loud, tiresome, and overlong."
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""All this is the stuff of light entertainment...and 'Significant Other' aspires to nothing more for roughly three-quarters of its length...Halfway through the second act, it suddenly metamorphoses into a different play...The cliché tap is shut off and every character becomes touchingly real, the way they should have been all along...Even when he’s being slick and safe, Mr. Harmon knows how to put a script together, and Trip Cullman, the director, has gotten the most out of what’s there."
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"The latest play to move from the Roundabout’s off-Broadway truck farm to...Broadway...The play’s strengths and weaknesses both are cast in brighter relief...'Significant Other' is more sensitively drawn than his acrid comedy 'Bad Jews,' though they share a certain glibness and a maddening disconnect from any world outside their own hearts...One of the finer things about 'Significant Other' is that it has in store for us a surprise ending that feels organic, and sad, and true."
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"Hilarity comes from spry, occasionally crude one-liners showcased to the max by the fine cast as well as Trip Cullman’s deft direction...The annoying part? Contrivances, cartoonishness and the play’s retro sensibility. Why no same-sex nuptials? And peripheral gays are either 'Hey girl' dopes or pining mopes...Glick gives a stellar performance, but self-loathing Jordan gets the pity party he deserves."
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"Cullman repeats his directorial chores with the same insouciant ease while his collaborators make some smart adjustments for the larger Broadway house. Playwright Harmon strikes the perfect balance between comedy and pathos — with the emphasis on comedy...The wonder of his humor is that, while it reflects a youthful sensibility, his clever jokes appeal to all ages...Harmon is that kind of playwright: He makes you laugh, he makes you laugh harder, and then he makes you choke."
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"Under playwright Joshua Harmon's compassionate gaze, that potentially mopey, extended sitcom scenario becomes by turns hilarious and poignant, delivering a relatable contemporary take on the old-fashioned theme of waiting with increasing impatience for Mr. Right...A big part of what prevents this delightful play from turning either trite or maudlin is the wonderful performance of Gideon Glick...'Significant Other' is consistently pleasurable, funny-sad entertainment."
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