The Inheritance
Closed 3h 15m
The Inheritance
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The Inheritance NYC Reviews and Tickets

87%
(480 Ratings)
Positive
92%
Mixed
6%
Negative
2%
Members say
Great acting, Absorbing, Ambitious, Great writing, Great staging

About the Show

Re-envisioning E. M. Forster’s masterpiece “Howards End” to 21st-century New York, this epic two-part play follows the interlinking lives of three generations of gay men searching for a community of their own.

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Show-Score Member Reviews (480)

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399 Reviews | 205 Followers
95
Riveting, Profound, Great acting, Great writing, Absorbing

See it if Howard's End fashioned into a tale of post-AIDS gay life. I couldn't take my eyes of the stage. Almost a sequel to Angels in America.

Don't see it if This show is long. It's 3 hours and 20 minutes, and part 2 is a similar length. If you're not interested in gay life in NYC.

206 Reviews | 40 Followers
95
Masterful, Relevant, Thought-provoking, Great staging, Great acting

See it if You want to see one of the best written and performed plays on Broadway.

Don't see it if You absolutely cannot sit through a 3 hours plus play with 2 parts.

247 Reviews | 61 Followers
95
Thought-provoking, Resonant, Great writing, Great acting, Absorbing

See it if you want a moving, thought-provoking journey through memory lane of the AIDS plague, all the incredible lives lost and the few who survived.

Don't see it if you can not endure 3 hours 15 minutes per part (including 2 intermissions). But the play fascinated us so much that time flew by quickly. Read more

106 Reviews | 60 Followers
95
Absorbing, Ambitious, Great acting, Must see, Thought-provoking

See it if Six hours to interweave 100 years of gay history. Some sex scenes seem silly but afterwards seem relevant. Best gay play maybe ever.

Don't see it if You don't have patience. I saw Part 1 and didn't like it SO much. Happily, I saw Part 1 again, and Part 2 and loved it. Read more

94 Reviews | 23 Followers
95
Intelligent, Masterful, Great acting, Edgy, Absorbing

See it if you love great theater, acting and stories

Don't see it if you want fluff, big sets/costumes and/or are upset w/explicit sex discussed/simulated on stage

318 Reviews | 61 Followers
95
Epic, Great acting, Must see, Relevant, Absorbing

See it if You know what? It is over 6 hours long and part 1 does have more humor than part 2, although it makes sense to see it as a unit, but, the

Don't see it if Acting is superb! The stage is minimal, although I like the trickery of which the created scenes and ambiance with what little they had. If Read more

136 Reviews | 34 Followers
95
Epic, Great writing, Must see, Great staging, Great acting

See it if You appreciate an extraordinary play about the Gay Community that deserves to win a TONY award for Best play. Profound & emotionally moving.

Don't see it if You don’t like long dramas about the Gay Community with many complex characters. You don’t like the writings of E. M. Forster.

54 Reviews | 15 Followers
95
Thought-provoking, Intense, Great writing, Great acting, Absorbing

See it if Loved the acting, writing & directing. Telling an important story a little different. Thought provoking and emotional.

Don't see it if You don’t like emotions or thought provoking drama. You don’t enjoy a homosexual driven storyline.

Critic Reviews (31)

CurtainUp
November 17th, 2019

"This award-winning production of a new American play arrives from London ’s West End with a top-notch..."
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Theater Pizzazz
November 25th, 2019

"It's…melodramatically intense, angrily argumentative, unduly vulgar, egregiously overlong, and, while sprayed with strong laugh lines, emotionally overwrought…'The Inheritance,' for many, will be [a]…powerful, life-affirming work of art. For others…, it will be less than the sum of its parts."
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Front Row Center
December 3rd, 2019

Score: 80% "In this play there is one moment where the great loss from the plague of AIDS is handed to us like a baby in swaddling clothes. Before we know it we have wrapped our arms around the now visible wound that we thought we had left behind."
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Front Mezz Junkies
December 8th, 2019

"'The Inheritance' truly surprises us, moment to moment, with its tender power and strong parallel story-telling. It slides in almost unsuspecting, finding a way to deliver a heart breaking truth and an emotional reality that sends me, almost, over the edge. "
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New York Theater
November 21st, 2019

"Sweeping and intimate, sophisticated and raw, a weepy that is often funny. Several performances are transporting…There are swoops into intellectual brilliance...dips into nudity and raunch. There is insight and debate and uplift. Does it have to be nearly seven hours? No."
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C
November 18th, 2019

"Its social message aside, Lopez's riveting two-part examination of how America's gay men do - and sadly, don't - learn lessons from previous generations (as well as each other) is a feat of unexpected theatrical daring, passion and beauty."
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4Columns
November 22nd, 2019

"The Inheritance is three stacked genres-literary homage, AIDS melodrama, and relationship play-but its metafictional layer-cake gambit is not matched by the moral intelligence or prose pyrotechnics required to pull it off."
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