Skylight NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (51)
See it if you want a masterclass in acting from these brilliant performers. Also, a superb acting feat. Simple and lovely.
Don't see it if plays bore you. Especially small cast plays.
See it if classic and proper stage play
Don't see it if you don't like classic plays
See it if You want to see two incredibly talented stage actors give their all.
Don't see it if You're looking for a profound play with a lot of action.
See it if you want to see masterful acting and writing in a multi award winning show
Don't see it if you need a lot of action on stage. This is a play about telling a story of lost love.
See it if you want a fascinating political discourse disguised as a romantic drama in a subtly directed piece with a luminous Carey Mulligan.
Don't see it if discussions of money, class and society are not of your interests.
See it if you like very slow paced psychological drama. Great actors!
Don't see it if you don't like very slow paced psychological drama.
See it if you appreciate a well-crafted story with great acting
Don't see it if you are looking for flash / you are uncomfortable with the May/Decemberest of inappropriate relationships.
See it if You are a Cary Mulligan/Bill Nighy fan and enjoy talky plays that don't have much action
Don't see it if you don't feel like paying a LOT for a play that would be better suited to a smaller off-Broadway setting
Critic Reviews (31)
"It is the charged mixture of mystery and tension and sense of unfinished business between them that most exquisitely animates “Skylight,” David Hare’s movingly absorbing story of Kyra and Tom and the compassion and comprehension gaps that leave their intense connection in tatters. That Tom is played by Bill Nighy and Kyra by Carey Mulligan adds to the allure of “Skylight,” which opened as one of the season’s highest-caliber dramatic events."
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"Watching a couple duke it out works only if you also understand what drew them to each other in the first place. But in the new Broadway revival of David Hare’s “Skylight,” the lovers don’t share much, either in love or war...The lack of sexual chemistry between them makes you wonder why Kyra bothers to put up with Tom."
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"The waft of vegetable aromatics infusing a homemade Bolognese isn’t the only thing that will fully arouse your senses in the magnificent revival of David Hare’s Skylight. This relationship drama is the kind of (mostly) two-hander that has the ability to turn into either a soap opera or a boulevard comedy in the wrong hands. Under the expert guidance of director Stephen Daldry and its luminous, impassioned stars, the production becomes–to get back to the food–nothing short of a five-star meal."
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"There is nothing quite like great acting to re-kindle one’s love affair with the theatre. That’s most certainly the case with “Skylight,” which has the added pleasure of playwright David Hare’s heart-rending eloquence. When a show is loaded with this much talent, it does not take much to captivate...Director Stephen Daldry exploits every subtle clue in the writing to stirring effect. Moment to moment, this “Skylight” is truly illuminating."
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"Hare offers some surprisingly prescient observations and stinging barbs, but they've been carefully insulated in heaps of down stuffing so as not to make the audience too uncomfortable. Director Stephen Daldry's lackluster production, featuring unremarkable performances from the two lead actors, does little to change that. Unfortunately, Skylight, by design, is a boring play...the result is about as thrilling as watching pasta boil."
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"I loved this play madly when I read it in college, not too long after it debuted. I thought it romantic and tragic and true. In this revival, directed with sensitivity and some unnecessarily cinematic flair by Stephen Daldry, I can now see the working of Hare’s hand more than I’d like, particularly in some of the more impassioned, politically minded monologues."
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"When it comes to playing sufferers and pricks, you can’t do much better than Mulligan and Nighy. It is brilliant typecasting and the play sparkles with wit and verve and even a little pathos."
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"Broadway's April Madness starts tonight, with 14 plays and musicals racing to open over the next twenty-two days...We cannot at this point state that the Stephen Daldry revival of "Skylight" will be the finest of the group, no, but it is likely to be near the top of the list. This is a smashingly good production of what might be David Hare's finest play, with two of the season's most striking performances from Bill Nighy and Carey Mulligan."
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