Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (213)
See it if you like to see good man body
Don't see it if you don't like vampire
See it if you want a Goth Christmas! This was just the funny break I needed. RHPS meets Charles Busch. Super fun for vampire fans, great cast, LOLs.
Don't see it if helps if you know your Bram Stoker/vampire lore (bats, mirrors, Van Helsing, etc). Silly, campy, fast-paced fun. Read more
See it if If you like a hilarious comedic romp with wonderful characters and creative “costuming”.
Don't see it if You don’t like smaller productions and wacky comedies.
See it if you want to laugh and laugh and laugh and enjoy the wonderful antics of the marvelous cast.
Don't see it if you don't like laughing!
See it if You want something funny, enjoyable, entertaining, and an all around great show. Really worth seeing.
Don't see it if You don't like sexual humor or actors playing multiple characters
See it if You want a fresh new take on a classic story, while having some serious eye candy to admire. The whole cast has amazing comedic timing.
Don't see it if You’re expecting to see a “regular” performance of Dracula.
See it if This is 90 minutes of side splitting laughter. The actors, writers etc did an excellent job of bringing the audience into this play.
Don't see it if Do not like laughing for 90 minutes. Can not imagine anyone like loving this presentation.
See it if You remember the Charles Ludlam productions where men play women and women play men, leave the kids at home and have fun with an adult farce
Don't see it if You are not into fun raunchy adult humor. Not your grandmother version of Dracula.
Critic Reviews (15)
“For the show to really work, it needs more moments like that one: simple, goofy and fast. That last quality is important in farce, but unfortunately, in this case, the second half of the evening drags a bit. Some scenes even slow down enough to suggest … emotions? In this context, that’s just like garlic to a vampire.”
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"4/5 - 'Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors' goes for the jocular. Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen's silly, sexy spoof of Bram Stoker's bloodcurdling novel replaces horror with humor, centering on a pumped-up, preening, pansexual vampire who is suffering through an eternal-life crisis."
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“The show makes it difficult to begrudge pointing out the occasional imprecise, maybe, I’ll say it, potentially transphobic ‘man in a dress’ nature to some of the jokes because, after all, it advertises itself as a gender-bending reenvisioning of the text.”
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“A funny thing happened to Arnie Burton on the way to ‘Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors,’ a raucous little spook spoof now at New World Stages. For several decades, Burton has been practicing—and perfecting—comedy on the stages of New York...’Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors’ is a relatively light sentence for Burton in that regard. The script by Steve Rosen and director Gordon Greenberg only allots him two characters to play, both women.”
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“I don’t believe the play is actually trying to say much of anything about sexuality as much as it is just trying to be sexy– and it does that very well. While this may not be the truest or most cerebral adaptation of ‘Dracula,’ it is certainly the gayest and campiest version I’ve ever seen, and one that I’d like to think Bram Stoker (who is widely believed to have been queer) would’ve enjoyed.”
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“The tone is struck at the top, when we are told, ‘Rest assured, you will be horrified. One way or another.’ After that, merriment prevails, thanks to a company willing to deliver the ripest nonsense with the straightest of faces while leaping in and out of assorted roles like decathlon runners. Not since The Mystery of Irma Vep has the supernatural been taken for such a wild comic ride.”
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“If you’re expecting historical accuracy, you’ve come to the wrong place...you probably never thought you’d get a straight-up comic take on the century-plus-old story.”
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“No amount of description can convey the delights of this ingenious rejiggering. You may gasp, you may marvel, but mostly you’ll be too busy laughing — thanks to all the artistry brought into play.”
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