Practice at PH

[Cheesecake2]

Posted: 11/8/25 at 1:42pm

Anyone see it?  You can go up to the box office and say “I’m here for the audition” to get 15 dollar tickets thru tomorrow.  Has anyone tried that?

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 11/8/25 at 1:48pm

BroadwayFlash/Bandstand/CrustyBagel/AngelofHarlem/AfricanQueen/Cheesecake/Cockeyed Optimist/MarcusLyons/KrupYou:

No.

[GottaGetAGimmick420]

Posted: 11/8/25 at 2:30pm

Today's performance was cancelled 10 minutes to showtime due to "actor illness"

[CoffeeBreak]

Posted: 11/9/25 at 1:52am

Was there an evening performance - or cancelled too?

[THDavis]

Posted: 11/9/25 at 9:03am

What’s PH?

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 11/9/25 at 9:12am

Playwrights Horizons

[Huss417]

Posted: 11/9/25 at 10:02am

THDavis said: "What’s PH?"

I don't even try to guess anymore. If I don't know what they are saying I just go to the next topic. :)

[MezzA101]

Posted: 11/19/25 at 12:25pm

Sarah Holdren: Nazareth Hassan’s ‘Practice’ Horrified Me, As Intended

https://www.vulture.com/article/nazareth-hassans-practice-horrified-me-as-intended.html

[Diana Greenhouse]

Posted: 11/19/25 at 12:51pm

Is this selling well?  PH is known for papering the first week of previews, maybe next week during the slow holiday week?

[quizking101]

Posted: 11/19/25 at 1:23pm

MezzA101 said: "Sarah Holdren: Nazareth Hassan’s ‘Practice’ Horrified Me, As Intended

https://www.vulture.com/article/nazareth-hassans-practice-horrified-me-as-intended.html"

Holdren absolutely nails it here. Given my line of work, it usually takes A LOT to unsettle me on a psychological level and this play did EXACTLY that. I would go so far as to say Ronald Peet is giving one of the BEST performances in a play that I have seen this year - almost TOO real as a sociopath, infused with a lot of self-m@sturbatory Jeremy O. Harris type qualities

[MezzA101]

Posted: 11/20/25 at 11:37am

Theater as a Safe Space? ‘Practice’ Demolishes That Idea.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/theater/practice-review-nazareth-hassan.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2k8.g_7I.0BaT-GhwTksn&smid=nytcore-android-share

[dirty dog]

Posted: 11/25/25 at 1:03pm

Finally seeing it this afternoon, the show should start imminently.  The first act is 2 hours.  It runs through December 7.  Will Brill is here, I just saw him on stage last Saturday

[dirty dog]

Posted: 11/25/25 at 4:26pm

Ohmygod that was amazing!!  Very performance arty and you have to just go with it, but I’d highly recommend it.  And it just extended a week til the 14th.  I love it stylistically where it’s so weird and ridiculous but they’re playing it serious and the audience has a scattered reaction, people laughing, people gasping, people amused.  I loved it.  It’s over three hours by the way.  Excellent performances all around especially Ronald Peet. Go see it!!

[BoringBoredBoard40]

Posted: 11/25/25 at 4:40pm

I was also at the matinee and between this and Bowl EP, Nazareth Hassan has rocketed to the top of my favorite writers list.

It is very out there but the second act melted my brain in so many ways.

I could see this in the pulitzer conversation next year for sure

[Kitty Kat2]

Posted: 11/30/25 at 5:54pm

I hope everyone sees this, it’s fab

[Art Isn’t Easy]

Posted: 12/1/25 at 10:51am

For my money among the very best, most exciting productions I've seen in the last few years. Run don't walk

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 12/3/25 at 10:55pm

I grabbed a ticket for tonight’s show based on word of mouth here and from a few friends and, I gotta say, it did not hit with me. Maybe it’s because I lived through four years of college and professors offering up their own individual brands of egomania and casual abuse, followed by nearly a decade of directors doing the same, but I found little of the tension and discomfort others have cited. Masturbatory and self-aware is still masturbatory at the end of the day.

[Dom King]

Posted: 12/4/25 at 2:11pm

That’s the enjoyment of the play. Is watching the character of Asa. It’s a masterpiece. 

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 12/9/25 at 11:12pm

I liked this quite a bit (with some reservations). Between this, QUEENS, LIBERATION, CARTOZIANS, and PRINCE FAGGOT, we have been spoiled rotten with ace ensembles in plays this year. Not a weak link in the bunch here. They are all working their asses off.

One ancillary thought: why do long plays lie about their duration? LOL - Just tell your audience up front so they can plan accordingly. The PH website says 2:45, the ushers told everyone upon arriving it runs 3hrs, and it actually ended up being about 3:15. 

It’s definitely a long sit, and doesn’t quite justify its length in the way that, say, STEREOPHONIC did, but its overall very much worth catching. 

Updated On: 12/10/25 at 11:12 PM

[MB124]

Posted: 12/10/25 at 9:48am

WiCkEDrOcKS said: "
One ancillary thought: why do long plays lie about their duration?LOL - Just tell your audience up front so they can plan accordingly. The PH website says 2:45, the ushers told everyone upon arriving it runs3hrs, and it actually ended up beingabout 3:15."

This drives me CRAZY! Quite a few shows have done this recently and I don’t understand it. 

[quizking101]

Posted: 12/10/25 at 1:33pm

I don’t think it’s an intentional lie. Given showtimes are hardly pinpoint accurate since shows never begin on time, but also show pacing and length of intermission may vary. I know Practice has a very involved intermission sequence (that I won’t spoil) and that may take longer some days more than others in order to ensure it is safe to be used. My performance ran around 2:55 a few weeks ago.

I do understand the frustration though since people hinge plans on the start and stop times of these shows.

[raddersons]

Posted: 12/12/25 at 12:51am

The revelation in act 2 that all this emotional trauma they succumb to and participate in adds up to something

 

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Is just ABsolutley brilliant. Was it all worth it??

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 12/12/25 at 7:40am

raddersons said: "The revelation in act 2 that all this emotional trauma they succumb to and participate in addsup to something

 

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Is just ABsolutley brilliant. Was it all worth it??"

I don’t think that’s necessarily the case. If you’ve seen actual performance art, it’s really not that far off. Practice’s version of that is certainly heightened, but it’s nevertheless part of two different arts institutions’ season programming. In the world of the play, I could easily see it presented at BAM and lavished with purple prose in the Times. It’s silly, but it’s also rigorous and intense, and that’s hard to call outright 

 

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[raddersons]

Posted: 12/12/25 at 9:46am

We’re on the same page. I was oversimplifying. I think what makes the show so thought provoking is the matter of perspective of that second act. To the actors it’s a day job. As the audience of Practice it’s actually self aware and impressive. But to a blind audience watching Self Awareness Exercise 001 without knowing the mindf*ck they needed to do to get there… 

Hassan’s two plays I saw this year truly rip the standard structure of theater into smithereens and it’s all quite satisfying if you’re willing to go there with him as an audience member. 

Updated On: 12/12/25 at 09:46 AM