City Stories
Closed 2h 15m
City Stories
75

City Stories NYC Reviews and Tickets

75%
(38 Ratings)
Positive
71%
Mixed
21%
Negative
8%
Members say
Great acting, Original, Entertaining, Absorbing, Thought-provoking

About the Show

Part of the Brits Off Broadway fest, this musical exploration of love, magic, and the city of London features six stories performed in rotating rep.

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Show-Score Member Reviews (38)

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548 Reviews | 1902 Followers
82
Absorbing, Great acting, Resonant

See it if You like beautiful acting, the show challenges notions of love in a demonstrative, yet delicate way. Very well done.

Don't see it if Monologue-ish pieces are not your thing.

58 Reviews | 13 Followers
80
Clever, Entertaining, Funny, Great acting, Great writing

See it if you like intimate, up close and personal theater experiences

Don't see it if you like musicals or straight forward dramas with simple plots.

96 Reviews | 18 Followers
79
Clever, Delightful, Enchanting, Entertaining, Exquisite

See it if You like chamber theatre, with the emphasis on the written and spoken words.

Don't see it if You are expecting a traditional theatre production.

108 Reviews | 27 Followers
78
Quirky, Wistful, Romantic, Presentational

See it if Enjoy vignette or monologue style contemplations of love and self, for the apt and original songs nicely woven in throughout

Don't see it if Don't enjoy being crammed into a space of uncomfortable and loud chairs, looking for a through plot and realistic stories

228 Reviews | 62 Followers
75
Charming singer-pianist bookended each pas de deux, 4 romantic playlets w/ casts of 2-3 actors, Playlets dominated by monologue-storytelling, Part of the annual brits-off-broadway play festival

See it if If U like shows in a place so intimate U may need a shoehorn 2 wedge yourself into your seat, w/ actors so close they make deep eye-contact.

Don't see it if If U dislike monologue-storytelling dominating dialogue, British accents, romance without physical intimacy, & a singer that steals the show

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506 Reviews | 1009 Followers
75
Clever, Great acting

See it if love the idea of cabaret seatin but too many seats provided for the small space . Singer/pianist excellent as well as 3 of the Brit actresse

Don't see it if coninued.. dreamy supernatural subconscious thoughts... should do 3 tales in each perf. as to see all 6 you must catch 3 perf Love the Brits

179 Reviews | 92 Followers
74
Absorbing, Great acting, Original, Slow

See it if you enjoy short narration-drive stories that express humanity and ask thought-provoking questions; some more captivating than others

Don't see it if you dislike monologues/on-stage narration; you need more than simplistic staging; you dislike table seating

754 Reviews | 128 Followers
72
Slow, Ambitious, Disappointing, Original, Good music

See it if you enjoy cabaret mixed with futuristic leanings. Attractive performers tell stories. The pianist plays and sings familiar and original

Don't see it if you need closure. Most of the stories drift off rather then end. The cabaret set up makes for squashed seating areas without table service?

Critic Reviews (11)

BritishTheatre.com
June 2nd, 2015
For a previous production

"If this is a new genre of ‘theatre-cabaret,' as some reviewers have suggested, then I would like more of it! This is work at a sophisticated creative level, where everything depends in a very pure, basic sense on the players themselves…Great credit then to all the players and to James Phillips for his direction, quite apart from his luminous yet precisely calibrated writing."
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L
February 13th, 2015
For a previous production

"A sublime, atmospheric and enchanting cabaret drama, with two hours of love, hope and delight…Rosabella composed the music for this show and what a brilliant composition it is! A perfect match in my opinion to the stories and one could be totally forgiven to be completely absorbed and lost within its layers of beauty…In essence this evening delivered exactly what it promised...This show, cast, composer, writer and director are a match made in heaven!"
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Everything Theatre (UK)
June 8th, 2015
For a previous production

"In all the stories the dialogue is, I suppose, lyrical, and probably works on paper, but on stage sounds mannered and phoney...Characters are underdeveloped and used simply as a conduit for the many, many words...What’s clever about 'City Stories' is the way it interweaves songs with stories, and I certainly can’t fault either the music or the voices of the various singers. But overall, I found it a draining experience."
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