Skeleton Crew
Closed 2h 5m
Skeleton Crew
85

Skeleton Crew NYC Reviews and Tickets

85%
(147 Ratings)
Positive
98%
Mixed
1%
Negative
1%
Members say
Great acting, Absorbing, Relevant, Great writing, Thought-provoking

About the Show

After a successful run earlier this year, Atlantic Theater Company brings back Dominique Morisseau’s hit play about four Detroit auto workers during the 2008 recession for an encore run.

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Show-Score Member Reviews (147)

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55 Reviews | 6 Followers
89
Intense, Relevant, Clever

See it if You enjoy a well written and well acted play

Don't see it if you are looking for fluff

216 Reviews | 58 Followers
88
Clever, Absorbing, Great acting, Intelligent, Thought-provoking

See it if you want to tap into your emotions & the importance of trust, privacy, social interactions, personal fears, and surviving life challenges

Don't see it if you are in the mood for a musical or a show that is more entertaining than emotionally charged

536 Reviews | 157 Followers
88
Great acting, Intelligent, Relevant, Thought-provoking, Great staging

See it if You like Plays set in the workplace of a lower class population using heavy street dialogue and accents. You like realistic plays.

Don't see it if You can't deal with heavy, unsubtle street talk. You dislike even a few moments of rap music used to set the tone and time of the plot.

104 Reviews | 103 Followers
87
Absorbing, Great acting, Great staging, Great writing, Relevant

See it if an important American play. Sensitively performed and directed. Resonant moral and economic issues. Precise, layered dialogue and set design

Don't see it if It may take a little extra effort to fully understand the vernacular, but that's a rewarding experience.

239 Reviews | 33 Followers
87
Absorbing, Great acting, Ambitious, Great writing, Thought-provoking

See it if you like dynamic theater that delivers a message relevant to today's political climate.

Don't see it if you don't care about people's struggles and personal lives.

97 Reviews | 64 Followers
87
Absorbing, Edgy, Great acting, Relevant, Great writing

See it if u want a well-directed & vibrant telling of the effect of economic collapse on the working class. Felt fresh due to charismatic performances

Don't see it if you have zero interest in factory decline, blue-collar milieu, Detroit struggles, morally gray defiance, rap music, or interpretive dance.

183 Reviews | 367 Followers
87
Absorbing, Great writing, Great acting, Profound, Relevant

See it if you are interested in extremely fine acting in a very original and relevant play that speaks to the American working class experience

Don't see it if you don't like deep plays or don't want to think too deeply about what you are seeing, or only want to see happy content plays.

197 Reviews | 531 Followers
86
Great acting, Great writing, Intense, Relevant, Resonant

See it if Moving depiction of 4 Detroit auto workers facing the imminent closing of their plant; seen from both white collar & blue collar perspective

Don't see it if Acting was terrific. Story unfolds slowly; not much action. One actress spoke in a strong dialect that was sometimes hard to follow.

Critic Reviews (25)

250 Word Reviews
January 19th, 2016
For a previous production

"The 'whodunit' dramatic tension keeps the play exciting—Morisseau keeps giving us reasons to love the people we most suspect...Although we first see these characters as snapshots, they grow into complex people we deeply invest in, and concordantly Morisseau invests us in the plight of the American autoworker."
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