GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS 2025 Reviews

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 3/31/25 at 6:31pm

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 3/31/25 at 8:58pm

11:30pm is apparently when they'll drop. I'll leave them for someone else to post. I hope to be asleep then..

[Kad]

Posted: 4/1/25 at 12:56am

3 stars from Adam Feldman in Time Out NY.

Mixed from Jesse Green

[HogansHero]

Posted: 4/1/25 at 3:22am

So, the most interesting question raised by the basketful of so-so reviews posted on this site is whether Isherwood plagiarized Holdren or v/v.

[In the event the error has been fixed by dawn, we are lead to believe that they filed verbatim reviews.]

 

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

Posted: 4/1/25 at 7:29am

According to Did They Like It?, 11 positive, 6 mixed, 3 negative.
https://didtheylikeit.com/shows/glengarry-glen-ross-2/

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/1/25 at 8:41am

Given the lack of responses I guess I'm not the only one with little interest in this show.

Mostly came to see if the Jesse Green haters would be out as usual to say he's mean, mean, mean...but no one cares.

BWW's roundup for the sake of ease: https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Review-Roundup-Starry-GLENGARRY-GLEN-ROSS-Revival-Opens-On-Broadway-20250331

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 4/1/25 at 8:42am

DTLI Consensus: With strong performances from Bill Burr and Bob Odenkirk, this Glengarry is convincing enough but doesn’t quite close the deal.

11 positive, 6 mixed (including the NYT), 3 negative.

https://didtheylikeit.com/shows/glengarry-glen-ross-2/

[Dreamboy3]

Posted: 4/1/25 at 8:52am

I read Jesse Green’s review as a pan. A few of the others listed as thumbs up seem mixed at best. 

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/1/25 at 12:00pm

Just pulling out Holdren's review, which as usual, is eloquent and on target.

‘You’re Wasting Leads’: Glengarry Glen Ross Returns

In this production starring Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk, and Bill Burr, the heavy questions around David Mamet's repugnant men go underexamined. 

https://www.vulture.com/article/theater-review-glengarry-glen-ross-mamet-culkin-odenkirk-burr.html

"Is the vileness itself funny? Is that a good enough excuse? By spending time with these swaggering, slur-slinging men, what are we learning about ourselves that we haven’t already learned, aren’t already seeing enacted on the most brutal and demoralizing national scale, every single day? When recreation for some intersects so completely with real and present horrors for so many, when do our politics, our consciences, demand that we rethink how we allow ourselves to be entertained?"

[Fordham2015]

Posted: 4/1/25 at 4:32pm

David Cote raves about Bill Burr in particular (deservedly so):

"The real discovery is Burr, who luxuriates in Mamet’s staccato fragments and torrents of profanity with natural ease. His sneering Boston accent a fine substitute for the Chicago inflection, Burr is alive up there, bursting with indignation and contempt for the business, his coworkers, himself. Although scrupulous precision with every word and bit of punctuation is required to pull off Mamet, Burr has a stand-up comedian’s looseness that suits Moss’s venomous, unhinged rants. Burr elevates every scene he’s in with his edgy discontent."

https://observer.com/2025/04/review-does-kieran-culkin-close-the-deal-in-glengarry-glen-ross/

[BoringBoredBoard40]

Posted: 4/1/25 at 5:21pm

If anyone is going to get nominated for this production it seems likely to be Odenkirk and or Burr

[The Other One]

Posted: 4/2/25 at 10:29pm

BoringBoredBoard40 said: "If anyone is going to get nominated for this production it seems likely to be Odenkirk and or Burr"

McKean is very good, too.  

This is a better production than its critical reception led me to expect..  

[MadsonMelo]

Posted: 4/3/25 at 3:56pm

Oh, so no Tony for Culkin?

[gibsons2]

Posted: 4/3/25 at 4:31pm

MadsonMelo said: "Oh, so no Tony for Culkin?"

Nothing in his performance warrants it.

 

[The Other One]

Posted: 4/3/25 at 4:43pm

He's a different Roma but he's fine. Not necessarily Tony-worthy, but you never know.  There have been a lot of plays this season.  Of the heavy-hitting male celebrities who've been on Broadway, Robert Downey Jr. seems to have been the best reviewed, though his play closed back in November.

Updated On: 4/4/25 at 04:43 PM

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 4/3/25 at 4:47pm

MadsonMelo said: "Oh, so no Tony for Culkin?"

The reviews do seem to be singling out Burr and Odenkirk more than him, but there's always the chance the Tony voters go for the bigger star, like when Samuel L. Jackson got nominated for The Piano Lesson over John David Washington.

[Jeff Tupolski]

Posted: 4/3/25 at 11:41pm

Washington was categorized as a lead, so Jackson didn’t get a nomination over him. He did however get the nod over Michael Potts and Ray Fisher who it felt like were acknowledged by many — including the precursors — as giving better performances. 

But it’s really not an apt comparison. Potts and Fisher are smaller names than Odenkirk and Burr, and Jackson had better reviews than Culkin. Jackson was generally agreed to be giving a good performance in a thankless role. Culkin’s being called miscast in the show’s plum role. He has a New York Times review that opens saying Richard Roma is one of the greatest characters in theatre before panning his take on the part.

Between his recent industry wins, the strength of the role, and him still earning praise, I’m not ruling out a nomination, but I think he got too many bad reviews for me to actually predict it. I would think Odenkirk and Burr will be ahead of him — love McKean but it’s just not the kind of role that gets in — and I don’t think this production has a strong enough reception to pull off three nominations. For now I think I’ll just stick with a Burr nod. Which feels odd given his role by design shouldn’t be the standout, but he’s the performance I’ve heard the most consistent praise for, and where there’s smoke, there’s fire.

[Stage Door Sally]

Posted: 4/4/25 at 7:02am

I found the critics' reviews interesting. There were a few raves, some loud pans, and a number of mixed.

I agree the venue was too large for this play. If I was in the mezzanine, I would have missed some of the subtle nuanced expressions by Michael McKean and John Pirruccello.

I agree the play is abruptly short and would have greatly benefitted by adding the ABC Alec Baldwin scene. I also really liked the monologue in the film where Jack Lemmon is trying to land a client while talking to his "secretary" Grace. Would have been great to see Bob Odenkirk do that.

I agree with the critics who heaped praise on Bill Burr. He was that good. Hope he wins the Tony.

I don't agree about Kieran Culkin being horribly miscast. I thought he brought a frenetic energy to the role and I laughed incredibly hard when he kicked a file cabinet, and came bursting out of the office after being questioned by the police. But many critics disagreed, so a Tony nomination is questionable.

The ticket prices were outrageous for the third row, stinging my credit card.. But everyone in my party of four thought the show was deftly performed, and a lot of fun, so there's that.

[MezzA101]

Posted: 4/4/25 at 9:21am

Retro Masculinity in “Glengarry Glen Ross” and “Good Night, and Good Luck”

 

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/14/glengarry-glen-ross-good-night-and-good-luck-theatre-review-broadway

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/7/25 at 9:27pm

WSJ: 

Fans Discover an Inconvenient Truth About ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’

Play confounds viewers geared up for famous rant; ‘It’s like going to see the Eagles and they don’t play ‘Hotel California.‘’

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/film/glengarry-glen-ross-broadway-alec-baldwin-ab72ecc6?mod=theater_trendingnow_article_pos1

[poisonivy2]

Posted: 4/21/25 at 11:08pm

I saw this tonight. I thought this was ... fine? 

I thought the acting was actually really good. I loved Odenkirk and Bill Burr and Kieran Culkin was pretty effective as Roma too. I've heard complaints that he doesn't have enough graviatas, but he reminds me so much of some NYC real estate agents I've actually met (many of them are really sleazy).

However, the play just isn't really my thing. It's so short, and I feel like the character development was not that great. For such a famous play, I was disappointed. 

Wodnerful stage door. Kieran Culkin is exactly how you'd expect him to be in real life.

[DAME]

Posted: 4/21/25 at 11:16pm

Yeah.. this play bugs me.  Was this your first time at the Palace since the lift?

[poisonivy2]

Posted: 4/21/25 at 11:21pm

DAME said: "Yeah.. this play bugs me. Was this your first time at the Palace since the lift?"

Yes it was. I loved the refurbished bathrooms.

[Jeff Tupolski]

Posted: 4/22/25 at 2:23pm

I don’t think Culkin’s problem is in emulating a sleazy salesman, it’s that he can’t transcend the archetype, which is what this role calls for. Roma is a total sleaze but we need to buy that he could convince his prey that they’re friends as he sinks his claws into them. 

After the audience has heard all this talk about a great salesman with a massive lead over the rest, when we finally see Roma at work, he should be practically hypnotic. Culkin convinces as a sleazy salesman, but he doesn’t convince as a good one.