Sense & Sensibility NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (434)
See it if Even if you're an Austin purist.The show sticks to the story - just spotlights the wit and amps up the action. I laughed & cried (a little)
Don't see it if U tend to fall asleep in theaters.Not likely w/this show but there's seating on both sides of stage and some audience interaction.stay awake
See it if Just see it! Can't imagine anyone not enjoying this show. Clever staging, seamless transitions, very creative storytelling overall
Don't see it if You like to see shows in big venues. This is an intimate performance with occasional audience interaction
See it if You are a fan of innovative cleverly staged updated versions of the classics, or are a big Jane Austen fan
Don't see it if You are a purist and don't like theater companies toying with the classics--or if you are bored by Austen
See it if If you love innovative theatre with great acting.
Don't see it if If you love a proscenium stage.
See it if this production is smart, joyful, witty, and ingeniously staged. One of my favorite pieces I've seen in ages. Go!
Don't see it if Not for young crowds or those who can't follow actors playing multiple roles, quick changes in tone, little exposition of some scenes.
See it if you're a fan of innovative staging & great story telling & like an intimate theater experience that makes you feel like part of the show.
Don't see it if you prefer elaborate staging and more traditional story telling.
See it if You enjoy innovative theater with interesting dialog, scenery and talented cast
Don't see it if You only enjoy big budget Broadway productions
See it if willing to watch a Jane Austen classic Jane upending (sometimes literally) and reinvigorated. I've seldom laughed so hard. Brilliant cast!
Don't see it if you hate hilarity, want a straightforward Austen tale, dislike slight audience interactions, want a fancy stage setting, or never laugh.
Critic Reviews (29)
"This 'Sense and Sensibility' gets the humor and certainly the gossipy, unforgiving world of high society to a 't.' Its staging is -with that glaring exception- impeccable and truly inventive. It's worthy of a much longer run on a bigger stage and it ranks as one of the best shows of the year. But it does not move you nearly as much as the novel does and a great adaptation should. Still, it's only a few tweaks and perhaps a switch in casting away."
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"For sheer, exuberant theatricality, head down to the Bedlam production…'Sense & Sensibility' is blissfully delightful…Having the director off-stage, directing--as opposed to on-stage, directing-while-acting--seems to have enhanced the pacing and heightened the dizziness, which adds just that much more to the evening…'Sense & Sensibility' is wildly enjoyable, wildly inventive and wildly funny."
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"Kate Hamill’s ingenious adaptation offers sheer delight with its creative stagecraft, lively exuberance, clever storytelling and fine acting. The talented cast of ten, some doubling and even tripling roles, vividly bring Austen’s characters to life. Andrus Nichols has the right gravitas for Elinor Dashwood and Hamill is appropriately overwrought as her sister Marianne...Director Eric Tucker deftly keeps everything under control. It all makes for a very enjoyable experience. "
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"Bedlam’s terrific staging of 'Sense & Sensibility' is everything great about reading an Austen novel: wry, sharp-witted, engaging, intimate, and often hysterical. It’s also imaginative in such a way that seems to recreate how readers might actually picture the story in their heads...The company’s stagecraft is whimsy, dynamic, and refreshingly lo-fi. The physical production also manages to capture swells of intense feeling — like heartbreak and betrayal — by doing a lot with very little."
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"I don't usually count myself among the Austen lovers but the Bedlam theater company's delightfully inventive production may make a convert out of me...The entire 10-member cast is terrific and yet first among equals in this production, adapted by Kate Hamill and directed by artistic director Eric Tucker, were Andrus Nichols as the most responsible of the husband-seeking Dashwood sisters and Jason O'Connell as the object of her desire. I want to see them in whatever they want to do."
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"An invigorating production that artfully blends words and movement...What's most exciting though, is not that the staging is great, down-to-earth fun. It's that it's all in the service of theater's prime mission: storytelling...In an exemplary adaptation by Kate Hamill Austen's story is related with shining clarity, and with such great humor that, when you find yourself emotionally touched at the end, you're not quite sure how that potent feeling snuck up on you."
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"The Bedlam Theatre Company's radical, experimental, hilarious, lovable and altogether excellent adaptation for the stage. It's Downton Abbey on roller skates, a rock-n-roll minuet, complete with curls and caps and corsets. Bedlam Theatre, an off-Broadway powerhouse, is a collective of actors of such finesse, such flexibility, such charm, such precision, as to just about redefine ensemble...'Sense and Sensibility' provides a splendid evening in the theater."
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"The show is very smartly adapted and directed for a cast of ten versatile actors. Obviously, I already love the story and it is being told her very well. Most of the actors play more than one role and they do so beautifully. Each character is perfectly delineated and shows so many of the foibles that Austen captured so well. Everyone had the opportunity to make me laugh and everyone had the opportunity to make me cry."
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