The Last Match NYC Reviews and Tickets

75%

(249 Ratings)

Positive

80%

Mixed

17%

Negative

Members say

Great acting, Entertaining, Absorbing, Great staging, Clever

About the Show

Set against the high-stakes backdrop of professional tennis, this New York premiere from Roundabout serves up a richly theatrical look at what keeps us striving and why.

You’ve given it all to reach the top of your game. Now where do you go from here? That’s the question at the heart of Anna Ziegler’s new play 'The Last Match.' It’s the semifinals of the U.S. Open, and two tennis greats are facing off in the match of their lives. Tim Porter, the aging all-American favorite, wants to prove to the world, his wife and himself that he’s still a champion. Hot-headed rising star Sergei Sergeyev struggles to believe he truly deserves to beat his lifelong hero.

Show-Score Member Reviews (249)

Absorbing, Great acting, Intelligent

See it if You love tennis & plays that make you fill in the details. Amazing how you find yourself immersed in a game wo a ball being bounced

Don't see it if You don’t enjoy thinking/analyzing message plays. Not just about tennis but doing what you love & sticking w/it through life’s ups & downs Read more

Indulgent, Slow, Thought-provoking

See it if You enjoy exposition-style story-telling. You are drawn to themes of sport, competition, sacrifice, personal challenges.

Don't see it if You are bored by themes of physical perseverance, men fighting for "glory" at the expense of personal relationships and family. Read more

Great acting, Great staging, Cliched, Slow

See it if You adore championship tennis. If you do, add extra points to the score I gave it. Good insight on what it takes to play at that caliber.

Don't see it if Watching tennis bores you and you've read enough on what it takes, in addition to raw talent, to play at that level

Deep by force

See it if you enjoy sports and theatre, it pairs the two well delving into relationships, fears, the psyche of a champ.

Don't see it if you need more character interaction and range. If you're in a bad mood, it's two successful men complaining for 90 minutes.

Ambitious, Cliched, Disappointing, Slow

See it if you have a particular love of tennis or shows that leave endings ambiguous.

Don't see it if you need to like the characters to be invested in their journeys.

Built around a tennis match/existential struggle, this is often flat and predictable

See it if script on occasion is poetic and contains flashes of humor

Don't see it if tennis opponents binary stereotypes: old vs new, American vs Russian, optimist vs pessimist as are wives; existential struggle contrived

Confusing, Intelligent, Slow, Quirky, Ambitious

See it if You’re a tennis fan. Shows 2 players in the semi-finals at the US Open. Shows what they’re thinking about as thry’re Playiing. Flashacks.

Don't see it if If you’re not a tennis fan, you might be bored. I was.

Cliched, Disappointing, Great staging, Overrated, Thought-provoking

See it if You love tennis and all the players.

Don't see it if You want more of a metaphor than tennis in your theater.

Critic Reviews (23)

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