The Gravedigger's Lullaby NYC Reviews and Tickets

See it if you enjoy wonderfully-acted and staged plays. The cast is stellar, the staging is clever, and the writing avoids falling into cliché.

Don't see it if you don't enjoy slow-paced shows about "the poor, working man." The script doesn't surpass previous ones in the genre, but holds its own.

See it if You like dark dramas exploring themes of class & struggling to make ends meet. Performances are excellent.

Don't see it if You prefer lighter fare or a comedy.

See it if you like intense scene work and fine acting and can handle a fairly bleak narrative

Don't see it if you're bothered by author contrivances and some over-reaching poetic passages

See it if You like dramas that are melancholy and give a perspective on the class divide.

Don't see it if You want a drama that is uplifting and resolves happily.

See it if stories of struggle and redemption,

Don't see it if somber and depressing

See it if you love exploring the common man and the idea of blue collar workers getting profound

Don't see it if you have already seen Fences, Streetcar, Glass Menagerie, or any other well known play about working class patriarchy, this is nothing new Read more

See it if You enjoy paying to listen to silence, there's a lot of it... you like watching snails race, that's the pace of the play. No Intermission.

Don't see it if You enjoy a good comedy...this one Ain't... You want to feel uplifted stay home...Seneca the Younger' s Medea is more uplifting.

See it if you like slow-paced talky plays about good honest stupid dull rural folk.

Don't see it if you're looking for new ideas or an exploration of difficult issues. Read more