THE MINUTES Reviews

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 4/17/22 at 12:00am

Post 'em here, kids.

[MadsonMelo]

Posted: 4/17/22 at 9:16pm

Variety is a rave:

The Minutes’ Review: New Broadway Comedy is a Cunning, Sensational Indictment of American Democracy

https://variety.com/2022/legit/reviews/the-minutes-review-broadway-play-tracy-letts-1235234223/

 

[MadsonMelo]

Posted: 4/17/22 at 9:17pm

4/5 from The Guardian: 

The Minutes review – Tracy Letts delivers a biting American allegory

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/apr/17/the-minutes-review-tracy-letts

[MasterThespian 2]

Posted: 4/17/22 at 9:45pm

MadsonMelo said: "4/5 from The Guardian:

The Minutes review – Tracy Letts delivers a biting American allegory

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/apr/17/the-minutes-review-tracy-letts"

Not exactly shocking the Guardian liked this and hated American Buffalo. 

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/17/22 at 10:01pm

NYT Critic's Pick from Jesse Green:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/17/theater/the-minutes-review.html

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/17/22 at 10:05pm

Deadline is a rave:

"Tracy Letts’ The Minutes would be one of the most thrilling new plays on Broadway this season even if recent real-life events hadn’t made it seem as uncanny as it is funny and, ultimately, disarming. The Minutes – there are a brisk 90 of them in all – begins as one thing and ends up quite another, and every step along the way is so finely rendered that we’re too busy savoring the moment to see what’s waiting just ahead.

Featuring an impeccable cast headed by Noah Reid – the Schitt’s Creek star makes a wonderful Broadway debut here – The Minutes reunites playwright and cast member Letts with his August: Osage County director Anna D. Shapiro, and together they find once again the eccentric, perfect balance of laugh-out-loud humor, dark undercurrents and emotional violence that made the prize-winning August unforgettable."

https://deadline.com/2022/04/the-minutes-broadway-review-noah-reid-tracy-letts-1235004679/

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/17/22 at 10:09pm

Theatrely is positive:

https://www.theatrely.com/post/the-minutes-arrives-on-broadway-just-in-time-review

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/17/22 at 10:11pm

NY Daily News/Chicago Tribune is positive:

"It’s an important play, a visceral theatrical experience, all about what has happened to retail American democracy and how this nation decides on which stories about itself it wants to believe."

https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/broadway/ct-ent-broadway-the-minutes-review-20220418-tthxxdhqy5hkxn267dkvfkc2tu-story.html

[Auggie27]

Posted: 4/17/22 at 10:12pm

This NY Times takeaway mirrors mine:

“Ultimately, I came to feel that if it is the theater’s main business to mirror who we are — to act, like the minutes of a meeting, as an absolute record of what we say and how we behave — then “The Minutes” does what a play aimed mostly at white people must. It shows us how we are starting to understand, but still mostly failing to accept, that our privileges are tied to a history of denying them to others. I think it is warning us, in its own dramatic way, to do better, before the minutes, as they will, harden into millenniums.”

Updated On: 4/18/22 at 10:12 PM

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/17/22 at 10:12pm

NY Stage Review has one positive review:

The Minutes: Daring in Both Style and Substance

https://nystagereview.com/2022/04/17/the-minutes-daring-in-both-style-and-substance/

And one mixed:

The Minutes: So Much Promise, So Little Payoff

https://nystagereview.com/2022/04/17/the-minutes-so-much-promise-so-little-payoff/

[n2nbaby]

Posted: 4/17/22 at 10:19pm

I’m kind of shocked at the mostly glowing reviews.

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/17/22 at 10:22pm

Auggie27 said: "This, a takeaway that mirrors mine:

“Ultimately, I came to feel that if it is the theater’s main business to mirror who we are — to act, like the minutes of a meeting, as an absolute record of what we say and how we behave — then “The Minutes” does what a play aimed mostly at white people must. It shows us how we are starting to understand, but still mostly failing to accept, that our privileges are tied to a history of denying them to others. I think it is warning us, in its own dramatic way, to do better, before the minutes, as they will, harden into millenniums.”"

To give credit where it's due, this is from Green's NYT review.

 

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/17/22 at 10:29pm

Helen Shaw in Vulture is mixed, leaning negative?:

The Minutes Feels a Few Years Too Late

https://www.vulture.com/article/the-minutes-tracy-letts-broadway-review.html

Updated On: 4/17/22 at 10:29 PM

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 4/17/22 at 10:39pm

DTLI Consensus: Tracy Letts has done it again.

7 positive (including Green’s Critic’s Pick designation), 3 mixed.

https://didtheylikeit.com/shows/the-minutes/

Updated On: 4/17/22 at 10:39 PM

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/17/22 at 10:40pm

The Daily Beast is positive:

‘The Minutes’ on Broadway Brilliantly Shows How Democracy Dies Under Strip Lighting

Tracy Letts’ excellent play “The Minutes” features “Schitt’s Creek” star Noah Reid as a town council member confronting those determined to rewrite history and destroy democracy.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-minutes-on-broadway-brilliantly-shows-how-democracy-dies-under-strip-lighting

[uncageg]

Posted: 4/17/22 at 11:26pm

Theatermania seemed to like everything but the way the ending was handled. After having a few days to process this play, I agree. Not sure where the "twitter mob" comment comes from. Are people on twitter bashing Letts?

 

https://www.theatermania.com/broadway/reviews/review-the-minutes-tracy-letts-broadway_93660.html

 

 

[MadsonMelo]

Posted: 4/18/22 at 12:49am

Very glad with these reviews. I hope it gets recognition at Play and some acting categories.

[Hairspray0901]

Posted: 4/18/22 at 10:29am

I’m very happy for the show - their cast and crew -  but wow I’m shocked. I wonder how much has changed since I saw it in previews in March 2020! 

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 4/18/22 at 11:08am

So happy for this play! I loved it.

[RaisedOnMusicals]

Posted: 4/18/22 at 2:48pm

Same here. I assume it's a lock for a Best Play nomination. Who are the other likely nominees, and who's the favorite at this point?

[Synecdoche2]

Posted: 4/18/22 at 3:22pm

RaisedOnMusicals, my guess is the play nominees will be:

• The Lehman Trilogy
• Hangmen
• The Minutes
• Clyde's
• Skeleton Crew

That last slot is more competitive, of course. POTUS might get that nomination instead, or maybe one of the Vineyard plays if enough nominators actually saw them.

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/18/22 at 4:00pm

Entertainment Weekly is mixed. Grade: C

The Minutes on Broadway: Tracy Letts' workplace dramedy leaves a strange, sour taste

A small-town council meeting goes extremely awry in the Pulitzer-winning playwright's confounding latest.

https://ew.com/theater/theater-reviews/the-minutes-tracy-letts-play-broadway-review/

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/18/22 at 4:02pm

The Wrap is mixed (to negative?):

https://www.thewrap.com/the-minutes-broadway-review-tracy-letts-noah-reid/

[kwoc91]

Posted: 4/18/22 at 4:26pm

Once again I find myself on the exact same wavelength as Helen Shaw. I think she is 100% correct in noting that our bleak political reality has rapidly outpaced this show, which significantly dulls the blow it intended to inflict.

[MemorableUserName]

Posted: 4/18/22 at 4:30pm

AMNY is more summary than review:

https://www.amny.com/entertainment/theater/review-town-politics-run-wild-in-the-minutes/