Happy Birthday, Wanda June
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Happy Birthday, Wanda June
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Happy Birthday, Wanda June NYC Reviews and Tickets

81%
(271 Ratings)
Positive
88%
Mixed
9%
Negative
3%
Members say
Great acting, Funny, Entertaining, Relevant, Quirky

About the Show

Wheelhouse Theater Company offers a return engagement of famed novelist Kurt Vonnegut's rarely produced satire. A searing and darkly comedic look at American culture.

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Show-Score Member Reviews (271)

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182 Reviews | 17 Followers
62
Great acting, Quirky, Edgy

See it if You like off beat plays. (I just didn’t get this show one bit, at all and was painfully bored so I don’t know what to say here.

Don't see it if What I can say is people around me seemed to really like this show. Because I can’t understand the humor I really can’t judge this show.

228 Reviews | 42 Followers
61
Great staging, Relevant, Quirky, Great acting

See it if You want to explore everything in Vonnegut's canon. You like black humor. You enjoy VERY broad acting. You enjoy theater of the absurd.

Don't see it if You are tired of representations of toxic masculinity.

113 Reviews | 15 Followers
48
Disappointing, Confusing, Excruciating, Insipid, Quirky

See it if You want to see a rarely produced Vannegut play, like absurdism & can laugh at anything.

Don't see it if This was an overacted, muddled mess, not funny (although lots of people laughed). Not at all interesting. I like offbeat but this was bad

671 Reviews | 126 Followers
29
A big confusing mess

See it if You have the patience to hang in there. The first act of this play is bad including the acting. But all of the acting gets better

Don't see it if you like to understand what you are watching. Read more

24 Reviews | 1 Follower
100
Funny, Great acting, Great writing, Profound, Relevant

See it if A terrific production of a play by a brilliant author with a stunning cast. Vonnegut was a visionary and this production is true to it.

Don't see it if If you do not know about Vonnegut's anti-war stance and why he felt so strongly about war you voted for Trump you will hate this play.

38 Reviews | 17 Followers
98
Brilliant direction, Funny, Edgy, Incredible acting, Must see

See it if You like Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and dark comedy and enjoy watching a group of artists truly flex their creative muscles in this resonant romp!

Don't see it if You think that any play that challenges "normality" is "weird". Read more

22 Reviews | 6 Followers
98
Intelligent, Great writing, Funny, Delightful, Clever

See it if Like a great play where true craft in every dept. puts on an amazing show! Great acting.

Don't see it if If you don't like male centered plays.

21 Reviews | 4 Followers
98
Absorbing, Funny, Great acting, Edgy, Riveting

See it if you're a fan of Kurt Vonnegut and the American "dream" family of the 60s/70s. It's satire and it's sarcastic, in your face crazy.

Don't see it if you are the person the play makes fun of: the trophy hunter, the manly brute, the one stuck in the old ways when America was "great".

Critic Reviews (18)