Infinite Life NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (124)
See it if you like brilliant actors at the top of their game, Mary Louise Burke is AMAZING.Entire cast is terrific.Story is interesting & well written
Don't see it if Actually I can't think of any reason NOT to see this.I guess if all you like are showy musicals, this might not appeal.But go anyway.
See it if A quiet stunner from Annie Baker working at her peak, this is a gorgeous, meditative work performed by a killer cast.
Don't see it if Baker isn’t afraid of silence or letting moments take their time to build. I’m sure some will be bored, but I was riveted and moved deeply.
See it if You're a fan of Annie Baker's work. You are willing to listen, laugh, be disturbed, appreciate something that isn't flashy.
Don't see it if You can't sit through shows with silences, pauses, endings that don't wrap things in neat packages. Read more
See it if Spellbinding, empathetic play about people with severe pain making connections, learning & growing. Beautifully written & performed.
Don't see it if You don’t like slow development with many details & pauses. Rich in theme & characters with subtle plot. Graphic w/bodily illnesses. Read more
See it if you like cutting edge theater with great acting and real feeling and humor
Don't see it if you like conventional musicals or something lighthearted
See it if you appreciate great deep intense acting/ writing/ directing/ storytelling. you want to be moved and enjoy slow paced theatre,situation play
Don't see it if you prefer to hear a story, or more face paced, short-attention span theatre, you're looking for a comedy, can't appreciate slow-moving art
See it if you admire excellent, insightful writing that illuminates the human condition.
Don't see it if you want rainbows and puppies.
See it if You’re willing to pay attention for a slow, thoughtful unfolding of people dealing w complex truths about pain & desire. Some bits are funny
Don't see it if You want a show with action or that’s fast-moving.This play is entirely conversation. The writing is idiosyncratic & surprising.
Critic Reviews (18)
CRITIC’S PICK: “For all the detailed behavior that shows up at the surface — the various ways the women sip from their water bottles, the shuffling or striding or creeping to their chaises — you always sense the greater weight of whatever lies beneath. That the characters also live in a world of ideas gives the play its intellectual heft and complex texture, both light and profound.”
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“ ‘Infinite Life’ is a play about pain and illness — about the messed-up guilt and meaning we ascribe to these uncontrollable things, and the crises of identity and faith that they cause, and the way in which they so often go ignored, dismissed, under-researched, and preyed upon, especially in women.”
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“...’Infinite Life,’ Annie Baker’s tender and compassionate but staunchly unsentimental new play about people living with chronic pain and disease.”
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“Pain may be trapped in the sufferer’s body, but great acting in such primal, honest drama can soothe a collective hurt.”
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“Director James Macdonald assembled an ace ensemble...If ’Infinite Life’ doesn’t quite knit together into a fully satisfying whole, it’s always worthwhile to see what’s currently on the playwright’s mind. And it doesn’t hurt one bit when the acting is exceptional.”
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“In ’Infinite Life,’ Baker isolates the simple act of existing as (or in) a body and shows us how it’s not so simple.”
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"Healthy or not, we can live only in the moment, never knowing what is coming, and maybe that's a good thing. Among our playwrights, only Baker can illuminate such transient episodes with such feeling and insight. I don't know how she does it."
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“ ‘Infinite Life’ has much to say about the ideas it explores, and it does so with laser-sharp exactitude...Baker has never shied away from writing plays that run over three hours in length, but, despite its dragged-out ending, this one seems to cry out for more.”
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