Aukin's production keeps the tensions, arguments and counter-arguments flowing rapidly for an unbroken 1 hour 45 minutes.
Read more

‘Admissions’ might have felt topical. But it doesn’t. Some of America’s smartest playwrights – Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, or Jackie Sibblies Drury – have plenty to say about race and privilege. Joshua Harmon does not.
Read more

Worth a look, then, but maybe a fresh round of application from Harmon could ensure it achieves greater distinction.
Read more

As was true when it was premiered at Lincoln Center Theatre last spring, the play packs a genuine wallop well before coming to rest on the ironic final word, "perfect".
Read more

Covering race, class and educational bias, this is a play guaranteed to make white liberals shift uneasily in their seats.
Read more

Harmon’s play is capably acted and capably staged, but it’s a work that, quite frankly, was not worth the air fare to fly it over here. Next to its predecessor at Trafalgar Studios, Natasha Gordon’s Nine Night, Admissions seems like a real step backwards.
Read more

Director Daniel Aukin needs to tone everything down, so that we can reflect upon the occasional sharp and thoughtful point that Harmon does make.
Read more

It's a clever production of a script which doesn't deliver on its final A-grade.
Read more