Spaceman NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (45)
See it if Interesting, compelling unique shows are for you! Intelligently designed, directed, and written. Fantsstic performance by Erin Treadway!!!
Don't see it if you're looking for a musical?
See it if you're interested in space exploration, one-woman shows, complicated sets, explorations of how humanity survives through tech and travel.
Don't see it if you have sensory issues/avoid flashing lights/loud noises/smoke effects, you prefer large casts, you're not interested in space exploration
See it if Like solo shows with a strong woman.
Don't see it if Loud noises or strobe lights bother you.
See it if you’d like to experience a stunning evocation of the loneliness of solo space travel & how it might, over time, erode a human psyche.
Don't see it if a vivid portrayal of nervous breakdown might be too upsetting for you. Read more
See it if Brilliant use of a confined spaceship to propel essentially an one-woman show. Mesmerizing performance with powerful set design and effects
Don't see it if Just one person coping with how to survive in space. Very loud laser-beaming effects.
See it if First Martian probe colonist encounters agitation and anxiety in her search for her deceased astronaut husband and escape from loneliness.
Don't see it if Solo performance interaction w/ high-tech set piece, disembodied voices, aural transmissions, bright strobe lights, inanimate objects & fog. Read more
See it if You’re into solo shows; you want something new and surprising; the theme - human’s coping with loneliness - is rarely touched
Don't see it if You’re very sentive with noise and strong lighting
See it if This production is fantastic, one of the best solo shows I've seen it.
Don't see it if If you don't like to question about life
Critic Reviews (9)
"Ingenious and punishing...Boredom then panic, boredom then panic, is not the kindest way to describe the feelings that Leegrid Stevens’s play evokes. But it’s not far off. The show is imaginative, and in terms of its design...a magnificent example of what Off Off Broadway can do...Stevens finds creative ways to keep Molly chatting — at 100 intermissionless minutes, the play perhaps finds too many of them."
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“Intense and frightening play by Stevens, directed by Titus...Molly pinballs from professional to goofy to agitated, and interlocutors and insentient companions only underline her solitude: there’s mission control, whose messages arrive after a frustrating delay; the various TV shows that are helping to bankroll the mission, which send a maddening barrage of questions...The sound design, lights, and even the lack of gravity come to feel like characters.”
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"One would be hard pressed to recall noteworthy or memorable theater pieces about voyages into the great extraterrestrial expanses. Which is one of many things that makes 'Spaceman'...all the more compelling...'Spaceman' works so well not just as a result of its introspective writing (Leegrid Stevens) and top-notch direction (Jacob Titus), but because of the brilliantly self-aware and not-overly-spiffy production design."
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"Although the script veers towards heavy handedness at some points, I found the play’s increasingly hallucinatory psychological and emotional landscape to be dramatically gripping stuff. And even if her blunt, muscular performance isn’t to everyone’s taste, I applaud actress Erin Treadway for skillfully navigating the play’s episodic structure and fearlessly tackling the not insignificant physical requirements of the demanding role."
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"A dangerously intoxicating adventure full of wit and heart... Stevens not only wrote the piece but also masterfully crafted the sound design...Every design aspect is beyond impressive and seeing it all in action is worth its weight in gold. Director Jacob Titus ruptures the space, pulling you to the edge of your seat and locking you there...The text at times can feel a bit on the nose or emotionally forced. Even still, the excursion is quickly steered back on course."
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“An extraordinary show. I don’t think I’ve ever seen another show in my life that gave such a strong sense of happening RIGHT THEN...It was full of theatrical magic and a vital intensity that totally won me over...A tour de force for the actor, the director, the sound designer, and the lighting designer...There’s a whole lot of talent on that stage and they’re ready for the big time.”
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"Treaday’s riveting performance has the audience gripping their chairs and wiping their tears as she faces every doubt she’s ever had in her expedition to the red planet...'Spaceman' delves into the struggles of hope and control and how either can tether us to dreams. If you enjoy powerful theater about strong people being brought to their knees (and science, and space travel), I recommend you go see it."
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"An engrossing and very fine piece of theater...A play about god in the age of science...Successful in transporting us into an entirely new place...The most impressive aspect of this impressive piece is how we are right there with Commander Stevens. We hear the very sounds she hears...We glance up to that space, as if we could see something there as welI...It's an impressive manipulation of the performance co-presence, and a testament to a good play."
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