“You Got Older remains a timeless meditation on adulthood in all its messiness, pain, and sometimes humor — and it is well worth seeing.”
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"If you find yourself in tears by the end, the play can handle that, too. It holds you in a bracing embrace, as close as it needs to—which is to say, too close. "
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“The playwright throws so much triviality into her pot that you get the feeling she’s showing off rather than trying to engage us emotionally.”
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“You Got Older” needed characters we could believe in, a production design that served rather than undermined the material, and direction that could locate the emotional through-line Barron promises but never quite delivers. Instead, we get a play that mistakes thinness for ambiguity and calls it profundity.”
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awkward and messy... too many of the scenes of avoidance in this early play feel as aimless or out of sorts as the characters.
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“It’s a really shaggy-dog play that meanders all over the place but never fails to fascinate at every odd-ball turn.”
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Alia Shawkat, who carries herself on stage like the human personification of a shrug, paints the perfect picture of a young woman in a state of suspended animation.
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Expertly maneuvers between fact and fantasy.
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