Love, Love, Love NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (292)
See it if for a thought-provoking and deeply moving study on the tragic, yet very funny, impact of one generation's irresponsibility towards another
Don't see it if you're uncomfortable watching family dysfunction unfold on stage, or if you're worried about having baby-boomer guilt
See it if you enjoy satiric comedy about social and historical issues, delivered by an exceptionally talented cast.
Don't see it if you can't laugh at boomers behaving badly.
See it if you like clever family stories, with modern themes
Don't see it if you get annoyed by mean and selfish characters
See it if Love plays that follow characters through their life. Great acting by talented cast... a mixture of heartbreak and humor
Don't see it if are just looking for a light comedy...this play brings issues that make you think.
See it if You want to see these wonderful actors in a very entertaining play.
Don't see it if Family drama with a lot of fighting is not your thing. It is entertaining but gets dark.
See it if you like good drama about dysfunctional families and you are not bothered by British accents
Don't see it if If you are tired of satires and dysfunctional families
See it if enjoy great acting. Amy Ryan in particular is sublime! There are certainly dark undertones here but I really enjoyed this piece.
Don't see it if don't like character driven plays. That's the real joy here: watching this amazing ensemble.
See it if you are up for a biting comedy about modern life
Don't see it if you are not interested in family drama
Critic Reviews (36)
"The entire ensemble turns in strong performances...The leaps in time and setting are visually delightful. The compromise, however, is that the transformations require a 10-minute intermission between each short act. This effectively kills any pacing that director Michael Mayer was hoping to establish. The experience is more like binge watching three episodes of a BBC comedy, than viewing a cohesive piece of theater."
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"Often hilarious, ultimately troubling comedy, under the inspired direction of Michael Mayer...As portrayed to sheer perfection by British heartthrob Richard Armitage and Oscar and Tony nominee Amy Ryan, Kenneth and Sandra latch onto the free-love, pre me-generation ethos of the swinging '60s as teens and use it as the road map for their lives...Yet, it remains a testament to Armitage and Ryan that it’s almost impossible to hate these two people, even when we question or despise their actions."
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"The five actors, whom Michael Mayer directs with utmost authority, play together well. Needing to present characters who age 44 years, Ryan and Armitage have the biggest challenges, and they come out okay, if best suited to Act II. Rosenfield’s Jamie and Kazan’s Rose only age 21 years and come out OK, too. Susan Hilferty’s costumes help with the time progressions."
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"It’s a scathing, occasionally sidesplitting and not precisely subtle indictment of the Baby Boomer generation and the havoc it has heedlessly wrought...Bartlett occasionally comes at his social and political argument too directly...But he leavens his argument with a lot of nasty humor and is very good at showing the destruction a careless remark or action can inflict...Together the ensemble joins to create one of the most indelibly and viciously failed families to grace the contemporary stage."
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"Witty, intelligent, insightful and speaks volumes...The cast is perfect with Zoe Kazan breaking new ground...Mr. Mayer makes 'Love, Love, Love' seem like several episodes of 'Love, American Style' gone painstakingly bad. This play needs to be seen, produced and shown to a public that needs to laugh, needs to think and needs to be shown the truth. Mike Bartlett is a playwright to take note of, much like Tom Stoppard and Neil Simon."
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"It’s hard to say what’s more astounding: that Armitage is utterly convincing at each age in each act, or that someone has written a three-act play in an era of 80-minute divertissements?...Mayer‘s direction is bouncy...Mayer’s manic brand is much less effective with the introduction of Kazan’s teenage Rose in the second act. From the beginning, she should be the eye in this family storm, but her tragedy is played for broad laughs."
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"Selfishness is a motif in the scathingly funny take enlivened by excellent performances. Michael Mayer directs with precision that doesn’t let anybody off the hook...The author provides a sharply funny look at this kind of parenthood, which is a welcome antidote to the parental platitudes often served us in plays, films and TV programs. Amy Ryan in particular raises her character to an art form as she energizes a larger-than-life persona in a performance that is as funny as it is award worthy."
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"Bartlett is a clever writer with an acute ear for dialog and, with the assistance of Michael Mayer's sharp direction, the play is undeniably witty and entertaining. But I had expected it to be more—and to be more subtle...None of it is enough to inflate the play's one-dimensional caricatures into full-bodied people or to refine its broad generalizations about the lives of those in the boomer generation into a convincing portrait of one specific family."
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