The Property NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (49)
See it if You want to see a strong ensemble of actors, and the set and lights are great
Don't see it if Realism or in-your-face theater
See it if you like Chekhovian plays (traditional storytelling) and new work. GREAT acting ensemble and design elements.
Don't see it if you like musicals or action-packed plays.
See it if The actors are quite good and it was a pleasant evening.
Don't see it if I felt the story jumps around a bit and I wasn't sure I believed the last love storyline.
See it if you want to look in on the struggles of a family over a two year period and you do not require complete resolution to all they face.
Don't see it if you want an answer to everything. There is a lot of dialogue and the teenager's language may be too intelligent for his age.
See it if you like great acting and visually satisfying design elements.
Don't see it if long speeches or old-fashioned speaking isn't your thing.
See it if You want to see a snapshot in time of a family during W’s reign that is without a doubt the family that became the Trump supporter today.
Don't see it if You don’t care about personal character study or development. This play is pretty slow except for watching the slow arc of each character.
See it if If you want to see family drama unfold. If you like plot twists. The people change each act!
Don't see it if You don’t like shows with unhappy endings.
See it if You want to see a play with great actors that is absorbing because you are wondering where it is going.
Don't see it if You think all things will be answered by the end of the play. Read more
Critic Reviews (5)
“While the themes of ‘The Property’ are topically relevant, its melodramatic events and wooden dialogue make this new play extremely difficult to believe. The characters are simply mouthpieces for various philosophies without being very convincingly portrayed. Ultimately, Irene gets what she wants but destroys a great many people in the process. George Kelly's eponymous Harriet Craig did this more believably and trenchantly in the 1925 Pulitzer Prize winning play.”
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"It's a fixer-upper, but it has good bones...It is far too easy to zone out during the script's long monologues. There are comedic moments that recapture our attention, but unfortunately when the action switches back to drama, it's difficult to be invested. 'The Property' tries to fit too many themes into a single story. These characters say so much, but don't listen to each other, or maybe they just don't care, and that made me not care much either."
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"An innocent light-hearted play with a bubbling cauldron of simmering rage just below the surface. Written by Ben Josephson and efficiently directed by Robert Kalfin, the story is disarmingly simple and allows the fantastic company of actors room to play...A somewhat frothy, uneven evening of theatre, satirical in tone with mature themes that are very compelling, but perhaps, haven’t been fully fleshed out."
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"Weary, stale, flat, and unfunny...Robert Kalfin has been unable to bring a minute's worth of believability or truth to the artificial, unappealing characters and dialogue…Apart from a few scenes involving several characters, Josephson finds feeble reasons for people to leave for extended periods so he can provide long-winded, two-character hot-air sessions, totally lacking in dramatic tension. Cardboard people pontificate in pseudo-intellectual, bookish sentences."
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“There was potential for this play, but sadly, the writing misses the mark. The basic outline of the characters was there, but they weren’t adequately fleshed-out. It is unfortunate because the actors each turned in admirable performances. In the end, no character is better off than they were at the start. And while that may be realistic, it falls short in a production when the themes aren’t clear. While 'The Property' doesn’t consistently entertain, it doesn’t educate or explain itself either."
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