Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance (Connelly Theatre) NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (48)
See it if you'd written off this Albee play as too wordy based on past revivals. This production goes deep, especially an astonishing Mia Katigbak.
Don't see it if you want the knock-down-drag-out shouting matches of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" This one is a cooler though no less anguished affair. Read more
See it if You want to see great acting and fantastic directing in a classic play
Don't see it if You are looking for something fluffy
See it if what a play! what a fascinating staging!
Don't see it if i don't think it always tonally worked and the thrust stage with empty back stage really made things hard for the actors
See it if Absorbing play makes you think, well acted!
Don't see it if You don’t like family dysfunction topics
See it if you want serioius drama from a master writer.
Don't see it if you want a happy play.
See it if U desire 2 B up close & personal 2 Albee's denizens of the family deep, U want to spend 3 hours with an Albee classic performed astoundingly
Don't see it if U fear intimacy or exploring the meanings of friendship & parenting, U can't listen for 3 hours, U don't want 2 C great work
See it if An excellent cast performs an excellent play. With tongue in cheek, I say that the play shows that Asians can be WASPs too.
Don't see it if you are not an Albee fan. It is a wonderful 3 hours but if you are not interested in Albee or seeing a play in an intimate setting
See it if Great production , acting, direction of classic work
Don't see it if It's almost 3 hours of a serious work
Critic Reviews (9)
"As for the play’s action, it’s all in the talking — the subtle and explicit ways the dynamics among the characters are revealed, in their intonation and gestures and expressions."
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"This uneven production of 'A Delicate Balance' is solid enough to make a persuasive case for the universality of Albee's darkly poetic insights into upper-middle-class existential ennui."
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If this isn't the definitive version of A Delicate Balance -- the latest entry in New York's current informal festival of Pulitzer Prize winners -- it is a solid introduction to an oblique masterpiece. Whether you take it as a savage critique of American life or a Pinteresque report from a blasted psychological war zone, it continues to exert a reptilian fascination. Cocktail time!
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"In this production, thoughtfully directed by Jack Cummings III, "balance" no longer is the operant term. Rather, it is tension on which this particular family group thrives. It is what invigorates them and keeps them from falling into a state of entropy and dissolution."
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"...'A Delicate Balance' is an uncommonly delicate work, which by virtue of the story it tells – the situations it presents – requires a director to find a balance among vast interpretation choices."
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The first Off Broadway revival of Edward Albee’s "A Delicate Balance," his first Pulitzer Prize-winning play (of three) is also the first to feature an all Asian-American cast as well as being the first New York production of an Albee play to be performed by a non-white cast. A coproduction of Transport Group and the National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO), it is has been directed by Jack Cummings III, Transport Group’s artistic director. The production is elegant and polished, if a bit leisurely. However, at two hours and 45 minutes the running time is the same length as the 2014 Broadway revival. The six character cast is led by Mia Katigbak, actor-manager and co-founder of NAATCO.
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The freshness here is of this fascinating play now being performed by an all-Asian company of exceptional actors in the intimate space of an Off-Off-Broadway theater.
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"In Jack Cummings III’s slyly off-kilter production, the play begins in total light and ends in complete darkness. The terrors do not dissipate at dawn but linger into a new day."
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