Skintight NYC Reviews and Tickets

“Harmon charms his audiences with witty dialogue and recognizable characters before slapping us back to reality with penetrating observations...Under the surefooted direction of Aukin, every element works to create the habitat of someone who values beauty above all else...The performances are similarly clear...’Skintight’ isn't just a cynical take on the state of love in 2018; it's a hard look in the mirror that reveals more lines and cracks than any of us would care to own.”
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“Harmon has plenty of things to say about our superficial culture, with its emphasis on youth and beauty...But ‘Skintight’ rarely pierces the epidermal level, harvesting plenty of laughs from its dizzily self-absorbed cast of characters while leaving alone some of the plot's queasier implications. The main event is the replacement of one fetishized youth figure with another...If ‘Skintight’ is ultimately just for laughs, at least there are plenty of them.”
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"In his newest play—his fourth, all winners—it is tight skin that reigns supreme...Director Daniel Aukin keenly accentuates the author’s rapid-fire comedy, both verbal and visual. While you might think there’s little humor to be derived from Botox jokes nowadays, author and director give us a barrage which becomes funnier and funnier...'Skintight' is loaded with laughter as it contemplates beauty, love and lust."
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"Harmon’s keen wit and instinctive compassion ensure that none of these folks is ultimately unsympathetic, or unentertaining. But that doesn’t mean you’re going to spend two hours and change with them without at some point wanting to throw your program at one or two...Veteran director Daniel Aukin culls performances that mine both the humor in the characters’ considerable flaws and their underlying humanity."
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"While extremely entertaining and absorbing both for its raunchy sexual language and its witty sophisticated repartee, 'Skintight'...appears to intend to go deeper into its subject than it actually does. It never clears up the question of whether Trey is really attracted to Elliot or his money of which he has plenty to spare. Ultimately, the plotting is a little too neat and the characters too self-absorbed for it to be more than an entertainment on a serious subject."
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“Harmon knows how to create Jewish angst filled and out-of-joint milieus and populate them with often abrasive characters like Menzel's Jodi...A thoroughly modern family comedy, and Menzel and her colleagues give committed performances. However, you're unlikely to care much about these characters, none of whom will stay with you once you leave the theater. ‘Skintight’ is just too determinedly provocative, to make a really skin deep impression.”
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“A play populated with characters as chiseled as they are shallow...Jodi has no dramatic arc and is in the play exclusively to serve as the screen onto which all the men project their own neuroses...This would be less obvious if the men in question were fascinating enough to distract us from all the casual misogyny...If the purpose of the play was to satirize the homogeneity of affluent white people...Harmon takes these characters too seriously for ‘Skintight’ to work as that.”
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"Harmon’s premise about the difficulties of age gets diluted by many other themes...I found myself waiting for connections and reasons for characters and themes, but generally there were few. Instead, Harmon relies on some cheap and obvious jokes...Padded by these extra jokes and characters, the play ends up being too long...It isn’t about looks but age and the need for love and belonging...It’s wonderful to watch Idina Menzel onstage again. I just wished she had better material."
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