DETROIT Reviews

[LimelightMike]

Posted: 9/18/12 at 5:59pm

DETROIT at Playwrights Horizons opens tonight. Please, post reviews here! "Happy Opening!"

[Dollypop]

Posted: 9/18/12 at 9:44pm

Having seen preview of the play, I'm eager to learn what the critical reception will be.

Updated On: 9/18/12 at 09:44 PM

[Dollypop]

Posted: 9/18/12 at 9:50pm

Newsday's review is mixed at best.
Newsday

[jeffmiele]

Posted: 9/18/12 at 10:20pm

NEGATIVE

http://tinyurl.com/9256r6e

[jeffmiele]

Posted: 9/18/12 at 10:26pm

Great review by the New York Times

http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/theater/reviews/detroit-with-amy-ryan-and-david-schwimmer.html?_rmoc_semityn_retaeht=&adxnnl=1&seid=auto&smid=tw-nytimesarts&adxnnlx=1348021620-V4NwCpuXBhDr2nuWd7ivjA&pagewanted=1

[QuirkyGuy]

Posted: 9/18/12 at 10:48pm

EW.com is mostly positive: B+

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20364394_20631128.00.html

[After Eight]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 2:48am

Isn't it funny (not) how critics rally around the Pulitzer winners/finalists with superlatives galore?

Well, the laugh's on us, I guess, since the plays invariably stink.

[Skip2]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 2:52am

Really...Clybourne Park...Really?

[After Eight]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 2:56am

^

Yes, really. That's a prime example.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 3:24am

AGreed. I had such high hopes for Clybourne, and man was it bad. It's just 5 people literally sitting around a room talking about topics we've already discussed. We get it. Black people can be racist too.

[After Eight]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 3:38am

And Detroit is about four people sitting outside blathering on about nothing worth hearing. Until a fifth comes in at the end.

[egghumor]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 5:14am

Elizabeth Vincentelli of the New York Post gives a FAVORABLE notice:


New York Post review

[Auggie27]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 6:10am

The Times review might even invite a Broadway or Off transfer, if another couple of top tier critics weigh in as enthusiastically. The Post review is almost a rave as well, startling. I thought it was designed with that possibility. When I saw it -- early preview -- the production's size and weight seemed liabilities, as it had the loudest scene changes and/or backstage set-ups during the quietest moments of the play. It lumbered forward, and you could literally hear the set pieces being nailed into place on the turntable. Apparently they solved that, and now the production runs smoothly. Will be curious to see what the prospects are. With the Times review, and with Schwimmer and Ryan, commercial prospects seem possible anyway.

Updated On: 9/19/12 at 06:10 AM

[Phantom of London]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 7:05am

I saw this in London at the National and thought it was very good, a lot better than Clybourne Park, this is one of the best plays I have seen this year.

It would be a great fit for Circle in the Square if it did go to Broadway, which I don't think it will.

[aaronb]

Posted: 9/19/12 at 3:09pm

Time Out is VERY POSITIVE:

http://www.timeout.com/newyork/theater/detroit

[RippedMan]

Posted: 9/20/12 at 1:13am

The discount code for the show on Broadwaybox is "DetroitBway" so...maybe?

[aaronb]

Posted: 9/24/12 at 5:03pm

Was not crazy about it. Here's my review: http://scribicide.com/2012/09/24/in-the-woods-we-could-eat-rabbits/