The Cover of Life NYC Reviews and Tickets

69%

(44 Reviews)

Positive

68%

Mixed

16%

Negative

16%

Members say

Entertaining, Great acting, Thought-provoking, Slow, Absorbing

About the Show

Set in 1943, this drama revolves around three young brides with husbands at war, and the female reporter assigned to write their cover story for Life Magazine.

Tood, Weetsie, and Sybill are brides in rural Louisiana. Each married a Cliffert brother. The men are off to war and a local news story about these young wives keeping the home fires burning intrigues Henry Luce. He decides that they belong on the cover of Life Magazine and assigns Kate Miller to the story. She has been covering the war in Europe and, though she views doing a "women's piece" as a career set-back, she accepts because it will be her first cover story. Kate spends a week with the Cliffert women and her haughty urban attitude gives way to sympathy as she begins to understand them while coming face-to-face with her own powerlessness in a man's world.

Member Reviews (44)

Banal, Dated, Disappointing, Excruciating, Fluffy

See it if you like a story about women going through ww2 period in the south.

Don't see it if Its about 25 minute to long, acting is okay, story line is weak as is the staging.

Cliched, Dated, Disappointing, Charmless, Long

See it if you’re really pining for a little Southern charm (very little).

Don't see it if slice-of-life period Americana featuring a totally charmless dysfunctional extended Southern white family is not your cup of ice tea. Read more

Critic Reviews (1)

"While the character of Sybil is written to be interesting, Callahan comes off as lazy and flat instead of languid...Even when she is tragic, she is boring. Luckily, as Weetsie and Tood, Milner-Sweetser and Carillo more than make up for that...The writing and directing took the time to draw out each character...No matter how they may self-identify, every audience member will see themselves in the women in this play. Highly recommended."
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