Sell/Buy/Date NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (140)
See it if you love watching a brilliant transform into different characters before your eyes.
Don't see it if I can't think of a reason not to see this.
See it if Sarah Jones is masterful in her portrayal of her grab bag of characters. Funny, touching and thought-provoking
Don't see it if "Plot" is a thin framework to allow for the delivery of all the characters seen in the evening
See it if You appreciate a solo performance by a writer/activist/performer...the characters are touching, clever and amazingly varied.
Don't see it if you do not want to think.....the sex worker industry is at once exciting, complicated & controversial. Jones' is a master impressionist.
See it if one actor portraying many different characters, issues facing sex workers
Don't see it if offended by sex
See it if you'd enjoy thoughtful, creative, nuanced takes on female sexuality & sex trafficking. Enjoy a conceit of a near future present.
Don't see it if you don't care for one person, multi-character shows. Or women's issues. Or human issues. Or humanity.
See it if like intelligent exquisitely performed by Sara Jones. Look for extended performance in other venues.
Don't see it if If you do not like one actor performances.
See it if Brilliant writing and character portrayals; doesn't feel like a one woman show; look through various lenses on this important issue
Don't see it if Although there are many funny moments and lots of laughter, it's not just light entertainment
See it if you liked Bridge and Tunnel or you appreciate a versatile performer at the top of her form.
Don't see it if can't think of any reason not to see this show.
Critic Reviews (20)
"It's a real treat to watch Jones bring her disparate characters to life with sharp-edged artistry and a generous spirit that almost saves them from coming across as caricatures. But the message they're supposed to be delivering isn't as successful. And a melodramatic subplot about the professor's pending promotion and her uneasy relationship with her mother merely distracts from the main subject…It felt wrong to be laughing in the presence of the larger subject matter."
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"Jones dazzled Broadway audiences 10 years ago with 'Bridge & Tunnel'...In her new solo work, her remarkable impersonation skill, using gestures and expressions as well as her voice, is just as prodigious, even if her subject, the sex industry, is somewhat limiting...The show goes down easy, which isn't necessarily a good thing...The stories offer few revelations, and generally sound like things we've heard before. What holds us is Jones' stunning facility in turning herself into everyone else."
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"In another one-woman show coup, the indomitable Sarah Jones brings her cadre of characters to life in a creative, clever new show 'Sell/Buy/Date'...Ms. Jones' characters all have accents, mannerisms, and voices that she flawlessly and seamlessly blends in and out of...Ms. Jones has a unique voice and that voice delivers a potent message via all her shows."
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"Each character is pitch-perfect in dialect, attitude, physicality-everything that makes a character more human and more relatable, Jones gets right...The show is pretty fast and often very funny about a very serious topic. I maybe would've had more darkness and more pain to more sharply contrast...I like a good deep painful theatrical catharsis. I probably left 'Sell/Buy/Date' without that huge catharsis, but that doesn't mean I didn't have a huge, incredibly good time."
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