"An immersive show asks you to escape reality, surrendering to a 360-degree fictional world. The fiction of “Tammany Hall,” indifferently acted, doesn’t entirely convince or offer much depth, and the environs (with wallpaper-heavy sets by Dan Daly, period costumes by Grace Jeon and subdued lighting by Emily Clarkson) feel low-budget."
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"As chance would have it, I wound up on a dry path about backroom Tammany bribery and self-dealing, plus a musical vignette from a money-laundering Broadway show starring Compton (Marie Anello). The gangster angle sounds like fun, so perhaps I should have taken more initiative in finding the material that appealed to me more. To the extent that Tammany Hall is a choose-your-own-adventure affair, I may have chosen poorly."
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"it asks us to consider the distorting power of identity politics, which Tammany employed masterfully when it came to its working-class Irish constituents. That makes Tammany Hall uncommonly ambitious for an immersive play, the best of which are mostly concerned with cocktails and costumes."
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"4.5 stars!...Although everyone gets a different piece of the puzzle experience, it all comes together at the end when one winner actually loses and we’re gathered together to witness and usher in a new beginning. There are lots of parallels to today’s society where the 1920s and the 2020s don’t look that much different. It’s a fun experience, a good history lesson, and a love note to New York City."
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"an inspired site-specific, immersive new play about a colorful moment in New York City politics...the tradeoff in this kind of immersive theater. In exchange for a feeling of spontaneity, serendipity and intimacy, each individual theatergoer loses out on most of the scenes"
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"This vivid history lesson captures a flashpoint in New York City’s history: when Tammany Hall—which had controlled (and corrupted) city politics for more than a century—would finally be called to account and Fiorello LaGuardia began his ascent into legend. Oh, and the stock market had just crashed.... the immersive aspect of the production succeeds, thanks to expert scenic design and committed work by the ensemble."
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