Cambodian Rock Band NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (131)
See it if you like a bit of rock & roll woven into the story. The story is sweet, yet meaningful. A beautifully told father/daughter story.
Don't see it if music sung in another language drives you crazy or you're not into personal dramas, where the first act is lighter than the second. Read more
See it if History lessons about Cambodia, a stellar cast and the wonderful writing by Lauren Yee tells. The devices are clever. It's a good play!
Don't see it if Asian experience is not your thing.
See it if A nuanced, deeply personal musical about the Cambodian Holocaust with great music & spectacular performances.
Don't see it if You don't like loud rock & roll or Asian music. It's about genocide & family disfunction.
See it if you historical drama, rock music, and an emotional story.
Don't see it if you don't like music in plays.
See it if you’re connected to people who fled or people who died under Communism. You want to discover some awesome, 60s/70s surfer-style rock bands.
Don't see it if dislike popular, accessible shows, other languages, or psychedelic music that makes you want to howl. Marked coincidences—like most musicals Read more
See it if you want to see the tragedy that happened in Cambodia through personal stories, relevantly interwoven with live rock music.
Don't see it if you hate rock music and reliving tragic history. Read more
See it if a great story and acting do it for you even if there are some uncomfortable scenes; you like loud music with an exceptional on-stage band
Don't see it if you only like traditional musicals and traditional comedies
See it if You enjoy layered mediums, CRB toggles btw intimate drama & bold big sound. The mix of sensations says what dialogue can't about surviving
Don't see it if You don't want to contemplate the horrific genocide that US foreign policy helped create in Cambodia. Read more
Critic Reviews (15)
"Partying With the Khmer Rouge in ‘Cambodian Rock Band’: Lauren Yee’s ambitious, tonally mixed play uses bait-and-switch tactics to approach the dark heart of a genocidal regime."
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3/5 Stars. "Directed by Chay Yew, 'Cambodian Rock Band' doesn't quite hang together as a whole: It relies too much on contrivance and exposition, especially in the modern parts. But there's something both touching and rousing about the way it honors the lost beat of Cambodia's past. It's an act of defibrillation."
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"Men to Watch in 'Cambodian Rock Band', 'Blues for an Alabama Sky,' and 'The Headlands'"
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"Lauren Yee’s play draws on the music of Dengue Fever to track the fate of a fictional Cambodian band that ran afoul of the Khmer Rouge."
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"One of the most widely produced new American plays of the current season, Lauren Yee's plugged-in confrontation with genocidal history takes its New York bow in Chay Yew's electric production."
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"‘Cambodian Rock Band’ is vibrant, moving, and overstuffed"
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"Lauren Yee's Fabulous 'Cambodian Rock Band' Is the First Great Play of 2020: Yee's award-winning drama comes to the Pershing Square Signature Center."
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"'Cambodian Rock Band' is notable for its confident, if shocking, trajectory, from a wisecracking family drama with kicky musical interludes to a struggle for survival under the most pitiless of conditions."
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