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/
Posted: 4/18/22 at 4:31pm
Marks in the Washington Post is positive:
Tracy Letts skewers America’s shames in stunning debut of ‘The Minutes’
The playwright’s scaldingly funny satire opens on Broadway
https://www.washingtonpost.com/theater-dance/2022/04/18/the-minutes-tracy-letts-broadway/
Posted: 4/18/22 at 4:32pm
Observer is positive:
Review: ‘The Minutes’ Is a Haunting Examination of Who We Really Are and Have Always Been
You will probably leave Tracy Letts' 'The Minutes' with very mixed feelings, but you will talk about it, think about it, and go away with the knowledge that you have never seen anything like it.
https://observer.com/2022/04/review-the-minutes-is-a-haunting-examination-of-who-we-really-are-and-have-always-been/
Posted: 4/19/22 at 9:49am
I’d say “positive” is a bit of an understatement. An all out rave. To quote: “I adored it”.
Posted: 4/19/22 at 10:48pm
Saw this tonight and loved EVERY minute, I could have watched another half hour, what an amazingly ballsy ending and Austin Pendleton deserves a TONY nomination, every line he said brought down the house
Posted: 4/19/22 at 10:57pm
I was also there tonight and I found it to be a very biting satire - almost like a very long Twilight Zone episode that was very prescient and topical.
Noah Reid was actually a standout for me as the doe-eyed newbie who was really no fool (I actually couldn’t picture Armie Hammer in this very Aw-shucks kind of character) and watching him lock horns with Tracy Letts and others was amazing to watch.
Like the previous poster said, Austin Pendleton’s doddering old man was hilarious and nailed every line and joke, but I also loved Jessie Mueller as a very understated clerk who eventually lit the fuse that built toward that very, very chaotic and freaky ending.
A well done show for sure and my $39 seat in the rear front mezzanine (Row DD) was perfect
Posted: 4/20/22 at 4:10pm
BoringBoredBoard40 said: "Saw this tonight and loved EVERY minute, I could have watched another half hour, what an amazingly ballsy ending and Austin Pendleton deserves a TONY nomination, every line he said brought down the house
I just got out of a matinee. It was an engrossing afternoon but the last 10 minutes weren't clear to me. I have to get a reading copy.
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Posted: 4/20/22 at 6:07pm
Its about tribalism and pagentry, they are the ACTUAL savages and they are using crude oil as face paint/blood
Its a bit more abstract then Letts tends to be but I got the idea
Posted: 4/21/22 at 12:38am
Any idea when the play might be available for purchase? Or if anyone has a copy...
Posted: 4/27/22 at 3:21pm
We saw this on Saturday (4th row just right of center thru TKTS) and were totally underwhelmed. And we have loved everything Letts has writtten before.
We felt the first hour was bad farce (what was with the one councilwoman who didn't have a clue about anything, next to Blair Brown?) And the last half hour was too obvious Ripped From The Headlines "lessons" that the audience at a Broadway show already know.
Probably didn't help that we had seen the Hangmen earlier in the day and really enjoyed that.
