The Last of the Love Letters
The Last of the Love Letters
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The Last of the Love Letters NYC Reviews and Tickets

64%
(55 Ratings)
Positive
38%
Mixed
47%
Negative
15%
Members say
Great acting, Confusing, Disappointing, Slow, Intense

World premiere by 2020 Steinberg Playwright Award winner Ngozi Anyanwu.

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Show-Score Member Reviews (55)

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TRC
161 Reviews | 26 Followers
87
Painterly, Profound, Relevant, Resonant, Absorbing

See it if you already did (it's closed). It was a provocative and painterly invitation into a theater experience that one's linear mind won't get.

Don't see it if you need to "understand" every single theater experience. This is art. Experience it. Read more

134 Reviews | 15 Followers
86
Thought-provoking, Profound, Masterful, Great acting

See it if You enjoy plays, solo performances and are open to topics of race, culture and privilege. The topics are moving end accurately depicted

Don't see it if There is no reason not to see the show

393 Reviews | 101 Followers
85
Engaging, if ultimately confusing, Intelligent, Riveting performances, Great writing, Ambitious

See it if You’re up for a sharply written meditation on loss & loneliness, & a remarkably brilliant performance by Daniel J Watts that should be seen.

Don't see it if You need more narrative, action & plot than the two long monologues here provide, or if you need stories that neatly resolve. Read more

460 Reviews | 188 Followers
80
Paean & prayer to artists, Uneven, Mysterious, Imaginative, Thought-provoking

See it if Your devotion to the arts exceeds your love of all else; a fan of Daniel J. Watts; supportive of Black-helmed works.

Don't see it if expecting a traditional love story, total clarity, and an easy finale. This is beauty and tragedy, unreconciled. Read more

56 Reviews | 10 Followers
78
Intelligent, Great staging, Great acting, Confusing, Ambitious

See it if This was largely engaging to me and had me thinking for days afterwards. I wish I could talk to someone about it. Fantastic actors.

Don't see it if If you just want light entertainment and don’t want to be challenged

615 Reviews | 147 Followers
76
Intense, Confusing, Profound, Intelligent, Great acting

See it if you love great acting and ambiguity; sometimes very funny & thought provoking; heartfelt

Don't see it if Feels like two separate plays; takes time to comprehend what is joining the two acts together; disturbing.

121 Reviews | 7 Followers
75
Romantic, Great acting, Absorbing

See it if You enjoy fabulous acting and heart felt dialogue.

Don't see it if You prefer fast action, blood, and gore.

812 Reviews | 132 Followers
75
Intense, Great acting, Edgy, Absorbing

See it if you like very emotional dialogue with 2 wonderful actors. This is really 2 solo shows in one. Very intense.

Don't see it if you don't like people talking about their bad relationships or solo shows. Each actor speaks separately.

Critic Reviews (8)

The New York Times
September 15th, 2021

"If Anyanwu doesn’t provide us with keys to the allegory, except to hint rather broadly that it involves the repression of artists in a totalitarian state, an actor as excellent as Watts cannot help but fill in the blanks."
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Theatermania
September 13th, 2021

"Patrons likely won't leave with much more clarity than they entered with. But, at the very least, they will have had the pleasure of soaking up Anyanwu's prose, which floats from high poetry to conversational wit on the winds of her shifting jet stream of consciousness."
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Lighting & Sound America
September 14th, 2021

“A bring-your-own metaphor party… you're unlikely to be bored; indeed, the performances, especially Watts', may carry you through the show. But one is left with the sense of a talented writer pursuing a private meaning with little regard for her audience. Whatever is going on is for her to know and for you to find out -- if you can.”
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New York Stage Review
September 13th, 2021

"Anyanwu’s play is a meditation on love that strongly implies love inevitably disintegrates into loneliness. Or worse. The 70-minute, intermission-less three-hander is best, and rightly, appreciated as a muscularly poetic outcry."
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TheaterScene.net
September 19th, 2021

"Anyanwu possesses a charming and sunny presence which struggles to transcend her pretentious and unremarkable writing."
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Front Row Center
September 15th, 2021

Broken into two segments, the piece finds strength in its universality. The chuckles, gasps, cheers, and applause from the audience confirm that Love Letters touches a nerve, one that is unanimously shared by anyone who has ever loved, lost, or walked away.
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Stage Buddy
September 13th, 2021

"Like much pandemic theatre, Anyanwu's often devastating piece is clearly influenced by a year of separation, seclusion, and shut downs. Its poignancy on the subject of being apart from people we love and losing things like live theatre is powerful."
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NY Theatre Guide
September 13th, 2021

"Both Anyanwu and Watts are magnetic performers; under Patricia McGregor’s taut direction, they instantly draw viewers into lockstep with the lovers’ torments. Watts, in particular, animates so many facets of a single man that it’s plausible to deny he’s on stage alone."
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