The Government Inspector NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (280)
See it if In need of a good evening out with some laughing and good feelings.
Don't see it if Your not into off broadway and you find it difficult to laugh.
See it if You want to be entertained by great actors performing a fun, physical farce. Non stop laughter and Michael Urie was amazing.
Don't see it if You are looking for serious theater. This is just fun and silly, but it is really well done. Read more
See it if you want to leave the theater with your cheeks hurting from laughing; if you love Michael Urie (he's THE BEST), if you like farce.
Don't see it if you want something serious or deeply introspective; this is a clever play that's really funny, but it's not particularly substantive.
See it if you like classic plays updated.This is hilarious, very relevant, funny as homemade sin.Acting is superlative.Urie,McGarth &Burton are GREAT
Don't see it if you are looking for a dark drama or a musical. But if you like good plays, terrific translations, great acting and a fun show, then go!
See it if You want to enjoy the funniest play of the season, top-notch in every respect. A joy from start to finish. The company is sublime.
Don't see it if You are some sort of grinch and don't like comedies. Just stay home and let someone else have the the pleasure. Read more
See it if You enjoy broad comedy played by masters of silliness. I have found Michael Urie charming in other shows, but here he is just brilliant.
Don't see it if You want anything thought-provoking or expect a traditional interpretation of the Russian classic.
See it if you love Michael Urie & want to see a top notch cast..enjoy silly farce-want to laugh.
Don't see it if You have no sense of humor, dislike farce and sillyness
See it if You enjoy well-acted silliness.
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Critic Reviews (47)
"An exuberantly raucous revival...If you don’t find yourself guffawing out loud at least once or twice during this show, check to make sure your vocal cords are still intact...Director Jesse Berger has assembled some of the most physically and verbally dexterous performers around to act out this fable/cautionary tale...This tremendously talented troupe is led by the wiry, wily Michael Urie...Berger’s staging is often daring and consistently hilarious."
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"Gogol waxed broadly funny, as the revival of the play proves with great delight and close to nonstop entertainment. Jeffrey Hatcher’s knockabout translation is even more than that. Often, it’s unashamedly corny, which has the effect of proving that when farce is delivered this expertly, under such bold direction, with such over-the-top performing, artistic corn is sweet. The cast means no end to the rib-tickling and thigh-slapping."
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“Under the hilarious direction of Jesse Berger, the insanely funny production is a night well spent at the theatre. Berger has collected a company of A-list actors at the top of their game…Michael Urie is adorable, Michael McGrath, superb, Mary Testa, over-the-top delicious. Arnie Burton, outrageously funny. For that matter the whole cast is utterly impressive and layered…Jeffrey Hatcher has created an adaption that brings to mind our present political dilemma.”
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"Gogol’s satire remains razor-sharp and Jeffrey Hatcher’s adaptation contemporizes the humor while keeping the action in Gogol’s dusty old provincial town...Urie is marvelous indeed...Director Jesse Berger does a thoroughly assured job, wrangling his clowns and keeping the laughter percolating...All in all, the Red Bull 'Inspector General' is bright, funny and as refreshing as a bowl of cold summer borscht crowned by two dollops of sour cream."
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"Red Bull Theater is presenting Hatcher’s clever adaptation of Gogol’s 1836 comic masterpiece...This production’s biggest plus is the casting of Michael Urie...He demonstrates a previously unseen talent for physical comedy that is prodigious...Most of the other actors create vivid characters and work well as an ensemble...Red Bull’s artistic director Jesse Berger keeps things moving fluidly. If you enjoy farce and slapstick, well-performed, you will have an enjoyable time."
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"Jeffrey Hatcher’s spirited adaptation of Russian author Nikolai Gogol’s play 'Revizor' is broadly staged by Jesse Berger with hilarious results in this Red Bull Theater presentation. The cast is wonderfully up to the uproariously funny satire on government dishonesty...The entire company deserves much praise for providing the ensemble merriment...Much credit should go to director Berger, whose vigorously over-the-top staging gives an audience a rollicking good time."
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"Like many alternately hilarious and terrifying works of art, Gogol’s satire, adapted here by Hatcher, has assumed a new kind of relevance... Just the balm this summer theatre season calls for...Urie's fluid way with physical gags and innate goofiness are perfectly suited to the part and a delight to watch...It’s a good thing Urie keeps us laughing; sometimes it’s the only thing left to do."
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"What was once deemed exaggeration now seems as relevant as it does rollicking and absurd...Hatcher’s adaptation is quick and clever...Berger does a splendid job with physical comedy, timing, and use of Distler’s inspired, two-story, doll’s house environs...Though a well-oiled, Rube Goldberg machine, the day is carried by Michael Urie whose creativity, energy, focus and ebullience offer one of the great pleasures of a jam-packed theater season."
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