The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window NYC Reviews and Tickets
About the Show
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See it if You want to think about the consequences of actions, feminism, freedom of choice and what to do in the current society
Don't see it if You just want to have a good time without thinking about current social and political issues, or if you want a musical, rather than a play
See it if you love the play
Don't see it if you get bored by preachy plays. i love oscar isaac but i felt like this play fell flat
See it if An inspiring and eye-opening drama about the quest to find one’s place and pursuing passions, ‘Sign’ is a well-executed non-musical treat.
Don't see it if Zero notes.
See it if Great show and great actors
Don't see it if You’re close minded
See it if you like great acting and not afraid of long plays
Don't see it if you cannot sit through an almost 3 hours performance
See it if The acting was fantastic (Oscar Issac especially), however the background actors stole the scenes. The staging was nice.
Don't see it if It was pretentious, but not in an ironic, self-aware away, and 45 minutes too long. It tried to grapple with every societal travesty.
See it if you want to see Oscar Isaac deliver a great performance
Don't see it if you arent interested in complicated and not necessarily likable characters
See it if You enjoy thought-provoking theater.
Don't see it if You want to have a light evening.
Critic Reviews (16)
“Its hailstorm of ideas remains stunning — and aptly painful if, as a proud progressive, you’re struck in the face by the ice of its wit. But as human drama goes, and despite fine performances by Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan, it’s hard to discern a satisfying emotional shape in all the weather. It’s blurry.”
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“Hansberry’s play has plenty of sweep – maybe too much. It takes on racism, anti-Semitism, political corruption, suicide, homosexuality, and social activism. Performances are all over the map.”
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“The play is harsh, but as it pares its hero down, it reveals something hopeful...Hansberry has this hope that, from a gesture, a streak of actual commitment might be revealed in Sidney like a vein of gold.”
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“What Hansberry sensitively captures, through most of the characters, is that troubling period in many people’s lives when the ideals of youth begin to seem chimerical, and getting a firm foothold on more practical kinds of success suddenly seems alluring.”
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“It’s a funnier, rangier and in some ways more ambitious play that gives its central character attributes both magnetic and off-putting.”
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“Things will only get worse if people don't stand together and fight for a better world...’The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window’ remains a powerful call to embrace that fight. This imaginatively-staged, passionately-acted production does justice to her political vision.”
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“...it unfortunately did not come together into a coherent, critical-minded play but rather a plodding diatribe full of one-dimensional characters and melodramatic plot twists.”
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“...Kauffman's thrilling staging — led by the terrific Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan — brings Hansberry's words to life with the urgency of something written yesterday. Sure, it's a little hirsute but the whole thing is just so alive that it's nothing short of dazzling.”
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