Skintight

See it if you want to hear Idina whine. It is an embarrassing display of trite, self-indulgent "acting" on the part of everyone in the cast. Dreadful

Don't see it if You love the theater and believe that it is about challenging ideas and engaging with interesting and potentially difficult subjects

See it if you want to see Idina Menzel in a play and a phenomenal performance by Eli Gelb.

Don't see it if you want a show with depth. The message of the show is underwhelming and unsettling. What will be next, a musical version of Pretty Woman?!

See it if you like superficial explanations of why people love each other.

Don't see it if you dislike shallow stories. I felt like all the characters were spoiled and obnoxious.

Also The one redeeming feature was the actor who played the son. He was hilarious and really did a good job with the role.... Read more Read less

See it if You want to see Idina Menzel in action without singing

Don't see it if You want a script with enough context to justify why these people treat each other the way they do. Unlikable. The lot of them.

Also Acting is great, but the script leaves them no favors.

See it if You love Josh Harmon plays and want to see all of his work.

Don't see it if You love Josh Harmon plays but don’t want to see his worst work.

Also I loved Bad Jews, Significant Other and Admissions. I hated Skintight with a passion. It is the most superficial of Josh Harmon’s plays and overall the cast was terrible. It was hard to tell whether it was the writing or the performance for the family patriarch that was bad, although I suspect it was both. The actor specializes in being a sad sack which is the opposite of what the character should be. Idina Menzel was funny but her timing was off which threw the entire play off balance. Only the actor playing the grandson captured the character as written. And the set was inauthentic because that character (a la Calvin Klein) would never live in a townhouse on Horatio Street (a modern apartment in the far west village—like one of the Richard Meier buildings—would have made much more sense, although then the Horation Algers metaphor wouldn’t have worked).... Read more Read less

See it if you want to see Idina flex her acting chops. See if you don't want a complex story with complex characters. The plot came off very flat.

Don't see it if if whiney, rich, snobbish characters make your skin crawl. If you don't find humor in the elementary.

Also Unfortunately, the play didn't work because the characters have not a single redeeming quality to them. Their problems came off as 2 hrs of bitching and not funny. The finished play seemed like a first draft.... Read more Read less

See it if You are willing to take a risk on a limited run play. If you can laugh at stereotyped characters, you might enjoy it.

Don't see it if You expect a comedy about family relationships. I blame the director who neglected to make the characters sympathetic and believable.

See it if Idina Menzel

Don't see it if She's wasted in the part.

See it if you like Lucas Hnath/Bruce Norris-style plays that are more about the playwright's ideas vs. characters that resemble real people

Don't see it if it would disappoint you greatly to see Josh Harmon fall out of form. At least he's 3 for 4 but man what a whiff.

See it if you enjoy seeing good actors playing self-absorbed, frequently cruel characters in what seems to me a pointless script.

Don't see it if the message that sex is the total meaning of life is less than intellectually satisfying to you.