When It's You
Closed 1h 10m
When It's You
67

When It's You NYC Reviews and Tickets

67%
(73 Ratings)
Positive
45%
Mixed
44%
Negative
11%
Members say
Slow, Great acting, Disappointing, Absorbing, Thought-provoking

About the Show

Keen Company presents the world premiere of Courtney Baron's one-person play about gun violence in contemporary America.

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Show-Score Member Reviews (73)

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332 Reviews | 41 Followers
68
Absorbing, Great acting, Relevant, Slow

See it if You don't mind a one woman show talking about gun violence and how it affected her. You don't mind simple staging. You want to hear a story.

Don't see it if You need elaborate staging. You don't like narratives. You don't want to hear a story about gun violence and how it affected this person.

55 Reviews | 14 Followers
66
Intense, Great acting, Intelligent

See it if You want to see a monologue...flat. Good acting , but monotone, no expression. Serious stuff.

Don't see it if You want fun entertainment. This is serious. Stage set is one chair and one woman!

103 Reviews | 12 Followers
65
Great acting, Intense, Slow, Relevant, Disappointing

See it if You want a one-woman show talking about gun violence, you want to hear a story

Don't see it if One-person shows aren't your thing, if discussions of gun violence are upsetting or boring

64 Reviews | 22 Followers
63
Indulgent, Disappointing, Thought-provoking, Slow, Ambitious

See it if you like monologues.

Don't see it if You want more meaning and depth to your theater experience.

55 Reviews | 23 Followers
62
Banal, Slow, Disappointing

See it if Like a good actress in a one person show.

Don't see it if You don't like to see a one person show with hardly any props. Read more

139 Reviews | 19 Followers
60
Slow, Tedious, Uneventful, Disappointing, Unconnected

See it if you enjoy a one-person show

Don't see it if substance and relevance is important to you

70 Reviews | 16 Followers
59
Cliched, Relevant, Slow, Thought-provoking

See it if you'd enjoy seeing a conversation about gun control from a new angle

Don't see it if there are a lot of irrelevant tangents and the play's conclusions aren't particularly original or profound

444 Reviews | 79 Followers
47
Disappointing

See it if You like one woman shows. If you want to hear a middle age woman whine about a past romance. If you like Ana Reeder.

Don't see it if You like scenery. Only one chair. If you want a cast. One woman. If you want an exciting thoughtful story. This goes no where.

Critic Reviews (11)

Broadway Blog
March 19th, 2017

“By the time the piece concludes, we can be forgiven for feeling like we've been part of a grief counseling session listening patiently to a member's lengthy account of her trauma and what she's learned from it...The narrative...isn't especially novel or interesting...While not much of a play,...'When It's You' offers Ana Reeder an extended acting exercise in which she offers a lovingly constructed performance, one that fully captures the emotional toll of Ginnifer's experiences.”
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Broadway & Me
March 29th, 2017

“Any show that takes on this topic has to walk a narrow line, paying homage to the pain the real-life tragedies caused without exploiting them and attempting to provide insight into the incomprehensible. The Keen Company's production of ‘When It's You’ fails to meet both tests…The character actress Ana Reeder does what she can with the part but it's thin gruel and the 70 minutes it took for her to get through it seemed endless.”
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City Cabaret
March 23rd, 2017

"Reeder is empathetic and nuanced as a Texas gal with a light drawl and a friendly manner...Ginnifer's skimming introspective search results in a bland play directed by Jonathan Silverstein that moves with slow determination but little flow and no anchor to truth. 'I may be alone, but I am not without purpose. I’m going to have direction.' She sounds determined but Courtney Baron's play does not make an encouraging case."
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