The Parisian Woman NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (447)
See it if you enjoy stories about relationships.
Don't see it if you want a political drama. Washington D.C, political scene is the backdrop but the story is rooted in the interpersonal relationships.
See it if If you like house of cards, this political play on how to get a head in DC iis right for you. Keeping the Donald out of it most of the time!
Don't see it if If gay relationships or stabs at the predictor in chef are troubling to you. (We wouldn’t want you their either!) Read more
See it if You want to laught with Modern day trump jokes, if you like a good plot twist
Don't see it if You don’t find trump jokes to be funny, it political views aren’t for you. If martial affairs upset you
See it if you enjoy seeing Uma Thurman and the talented ensemble interact with some political justice.
Don't see it if you are fed up with socialites and political romps.
See it if A fan of Uma Thurman. She’s gorgeous in this and gives a great performance.you enjoy political humor targeted at today’s insane environment.
Don't see it if You’re a Trump supporter. If you’re not an Uma Thurman fan.
See it if You enjoy really great comedic theater and great performances, especially that of Uma Thurman
Don't see it if You are not into political humor
See it if You enjoy drama and intrigue within the political world. Absorbing with a couple of unexpected twists to maintain your interest. Well writte
Don't see it if You dislike drama and the political scene
See it if You enjoy clever political dramas brimming with scandal, intrigue, and betrayal.
Don't see it if You are ultra conservative and not open-minded. This play is unabashedly critical of the current administration.
Critic Reviews (57)
"Thurman attacks the part like she's doing bad Noel Coward in regional repertory theater....This is a play with an identity crisis, exacerbated by MacKinnon's incongruously stylized scene changes...Visually, these fussy interludes make no sense, beyond echoing the confusion of a work that can't decide if it's a sly political thriller about our alarming reality or a conventional drawing-room comedy about no credible reality at all."
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"Feels as if it has had the life sucked out of it. Not only is the Washington of Willimon’s imagination here a place of tawdry political prostitution, but it’s also a pretty dull den of iniquity to boot...Willimon’s plot seems to demand an actress of more naturally devious impulses than are possessed by Thurman...Washington may seem to have a hole where its heart is supposed to be, but that’s the only fragment of portraiture in which 'The Parisian Woman' excels."
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"A stunningly smug, utterly incredible and wholly inept political satire...All of the nuance, sophistication and intellectual complexity of a presidential tweet...One of the fundamental problems of this terrible show is that you never for a moment believe that anyone involved here really knows how the people they are lampooning actually function...But you can’t blame Trump (or Willimon) for some of the incomprehensibly terrible acting on view."
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"Unfortunately, Willimon brings none of his shrewd insight into the political machine to the stage here...They’re amusing enough, but don’t offer any more insight than a five-minute scroll through Twitter would, and it quickly starts to feel stale and cliché. Likewise, Thurman’s Chloe feels uninspired, and the actress doesn’t slip smoothly into the role...Still, the show has its pleasures: Soo is wonderful...And some of Willimon’s lines are deliciously funny."
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"A thin and underwhelming new drama...Although the play revolves around heavy-handed plot machinations, it still manages to feel slight and slow. The characters are initially interesting but prove to be one-dimensional. The direction does little to pep up the production...Thurman gives a stiff, unvaried, muted performance in which she mostly sits around and delivers her lines with a small grin and a poker face."
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“The play is something of a throwback to the stilted dramas of the past...Everyone plays their part well enough but the characters have a cliched scent to them and despite the contemporary spin, there's a sense that we've seen it all before...The 90 minute play, tidily directed, by McKinnon still feels long...The entire production has an under-developed quality...Neither villainous nor irresistible enough to make us care one way or the other.”
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"A plot as flimsy as a house of cards...Unfortunately, 'The Parisian Woman' is dramatic junk food at its best moments. We gasp at the intrigue and laugh (with ever-diminishing relish) at the perfunctory jabs at the President. None of it really sheds any light on this juncture in our republic...This less than thrilling thriller is further hindered by some of the worst acting currently on a Broadway stage...Cheap cynicism masquerading as the truth."
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“Much of the play is quite clever and interesting, but the peripheral Trump references keep upstaging the intrigue...On paper, 'The Parisian Woman' works pretty well. On the stage, it's generally a bore, due primarily to the exceedingly bland performance of Thurman...Lucas is equally uninspired...And then there's the wonderful Brown...If the play could be revised again so that she could play Chloe,’ The Parisian Woman’ would be a heck of a lot more interesting.”
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