The Thanksgiving Play (Broadway) NYC Reviews and Tickets
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See it if you want to laugh at yourself or at well-intentioned people who club you over the head with their up-to-the-minute wokeness.
Don't see it if you don't have a sense of humor about yourself and your politics. Read more
See it if You want to see an amazing cast. D'Arcy, Chis, Scott, and Katie amazing
Don't see it if No reason not to see this
See it if You like thought-provoking comedy. I wasn’t sure about how to react to the jokes. It was funny but it felt wrong! Guilty pleasure!
Don't see it if You can’t handle non “politically correct “ jokes.
See it if Fantastic performances all around. Really captures the essence of white liberals who mean well but tragically miss every single mark.
Don't see it if A slow start where the payoff is completely worth it. Warning for viscerally graphic scenes with lots of blood.
See it if You like a laugh-out-loud comedy, so rare on Bway...a great cast...clever staging. Yeah, I loved it, and so did everyone else.
Don't see it if You are offended by parody that poke and might even puncture your heartfelt beliefs...you are just an uptight grump.
See it if you can laugh at yourself and be okay with it
Don't see it if you’re easily offended
See it if you like a good satire and comedy about wokness and identity politics.
Don't see it if you are easily offended and are a conservative who doesn't know much about how first nation tribes were treated Read more
See it if Youre looking for an extended skit of cringe-worthy gags and goofball satire
Don't see it if You find that plays about writing plays is a boring set up no matter how irreverent the writing is
Critic Reviews (25)
CRITIC’S PICK: "For Larissa FastHorse, the author of “The Thanksgiving Play,” farce is not an end in itself. Rather, it is the hilarious envelope in which she delivers a brutal satire about mythmaking, and thus, in a way, about theater itself."
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"In a swift 90 minutes, 'The Thanksgiving Play' delivers solid laughs at the expense of targets that are admittedly, at this point, not unfamiliar: clueless liberals so busy holding space that they don’t get around to filling it with anything"
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"It’s a little disconcerting to hear so much laughter from the very theatregoers FastHorse caricatures — people who are not just the punchline, but also the problem — but FastHorse takes that laughter all the way to the bank."
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"One of the later videos has a band of Indigenous middle-school kids singing a punk song that mashes together...There, you get a sense of what the rest of this play is missing — the subjectivity of actual Indigenous people and children and a heart."
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"For all its knife-sharp humor, the play might be compared to a delicious Thanksgiving meal that nevertheless makes you feel a bit overstuffed, and slightly tired of your family, too."
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" 'The Thanksgiving Play'...is the sort of easy-target satire that should by all rights have sophisticated New York audiences seeing their own foibles and smiling at their own political vulnerabilities."
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“ 'The Thanksgiving Play,' ...is actually a funny and cutting piece of work. It suffers from its own moral earnestness, although kindly note I’m speaking there of its structure, not the case it makes about Thanksgiving."
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"The substance of its argument is no less pressing: How and by whom stories get told perpetuate systems of power and oppression. But the objects of its satire seem both too easy a mark and already expired."
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