A Bright Room Called Day NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (129)
See it if If you like Tony Kushner's plays. First play he ever wrote: has been updated and timely in today's political world. Very well done.
Don't see it if if you don;t like plays that make you think. Or plays that deal with the rie of HItler and fascisim
See it if you care about the future of American democracy and moral leadership.
Don't see it if you only like the ideas you already have and you really like Fascism and Trumpism-— almost equivalents.
See it if You want to see a big, messy, teaching world that yearns to pose big questions about how we live our lives with relation to history.
Don't see it if You want something easy, pleasurable, or short. It’s ambitions are matched by a hefty running time, and the threads can become unwieldy.
See it if Well written and interesting to see how an author updates material. Actors played even the minor roles well.
Don't see it if You don’t like modern drama or plays that take risks. It’s not chronological and that might annoy people.
See it if You appreciate historical and political theatre. Like Kushner and watching a fine ensemble of actors.
Don't see it if You want to be unchallenged and comfortable. You need patience and close listening to appreciate this!
See it if The Public is your go-to theatre. Great Kushner moments and haunting parallels of the bigots of history and the unfortunate leaders of today
Don't see it if You don’t like immersive plays. At times, characters are not presented. Keep your ears alert not to miss great writing.
See it if you're interested in playwriting, historicity, power, the purpose of theater, WWII, or what it means to act morally in the world.
Don't see it if You don't like breaking the fourth wall, supernatural plot elements, lots of talking, intellectualizing, or Tony Kushner. Read more
See it if You like relevant theater and you’re into politics
Don't see it if You like relevant theater and you’re a staunch Republican and arent open minded and don’t like intellectual theatre
Critic Reviews (15)
"The Playwright Enters the Play
In retooling his first produced work, Tony Kushner himself appears as a character in this lumbering portrait of endangered artists in Nazi Berlin."
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4 Stars. "This will not be welcome to the kind of people who scream 'Godwin’s Law!' at any whiff of comparison to the Third Reich...But it is a privilege to spend three hours in the company of such an invigorating, morally serious intellect.
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"The Wild Invention of 'Fefu and Her Friends,' and the (Latest!) Rewrite of 'A Bright Room Called Day'"
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"Blaming the President: Tony Kushner’s 1985 history play prefigured ‘Angels in America,’ but even a new revival leaves a lot to be desired."
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"This first major NYC revival of the 1985 debut from Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Angels in America' author Tony Kushner is a revised version featuring a stand-in for the playwright commenting on the action."
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"Tony Kushner's A Bright Room Called Day Corrects Its Past Mistakes — and Hopes America Will Too: Kushner updates his Reagan-era critique of dangerous right-wing politics for a new production at the Public Theater."
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"Tony Kushner Inserts Himself Into His Early Effort, 'A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY'"
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"Dead on arrival when first seen at the Public in 1991, thanks to its irritatingly facile and misleading parallels between the Nazi regime and the Reagan Administration, it has been tinkered with by the author, with results that only add to its dramatic inertia."
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