THE PARISIAN WOMAN Reviews
#2
Posted: 11/30/17 at 8:10pm
Matt Windman gives it a 2 out of 4...
https://www.amny.com/entertainment/the-parisian-woman-uma-thurman-1.15263151
#3
Posted: 11/30/17 at 8:22pm
Chicago Tribune is negative.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/broadway/ct-ent-parisian-woman-broadway-review-1201-story.html
The BWW board for this show is full of people saying it was the "worst show this season." Ouch.
#4
Posted: 11/30/17 at 8:42pm
Danielle49 said: "Chicago Tribune is negative.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/broadway/ct-ent-parisian-woman-broadway-review-1201-story.html
The BWW board for this show is full of people saying it was the "worst show this season." Ouch."
The BWW boards say that about every show in every season.
#5
Posted: 11/30/17 at 9:05pm
Variety is negative...
http://variety.com/2017/legit/reviews/the-parisian-woman-review-uma-thurman-1202626394/
The Hollywood Reporter is indifferent...
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/parisian-woman-theater-review-1063132
Deadline is negative...
http://deadline.com/2017/11/broadway-review-uma-thurman-beau-willimon-the-parisian-woman-1202217774/
#6
Posted: 11/30/17 at 9:20pm
Daily News is the first positive review
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/theater-arts/uma-thurman-broadway-debut-parisian-woman-review-article-1.3666110
#7
Posted: 11/30/17 at 9:36pm
Newsday is underwhelming...
https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/theater/the-parisian-woman-review-1.15257855
The Daily Beast is positive...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-power-games-of-uma-thurmans-broadway-debut
#8
Posted: 11/30/17 at 9:52pm
The New York Times is negative...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/theater/the-parisian-woman-uma-thurman-review.html?smid=tw-nyttheater&smtyp=cur
Updated On: 11/30/17 at 09:52 PM
#9
Posted: 11/30/17 at 9:53pm
It will be interesting to see if this is one of those shows that continues to pack them in despite the glut of poor reviews:
http://www.playbill.com/article/read-reviews-for-the-parisian-woman-starring-uma-thurman-in-her-broadway-debut
#10
Posted: 11/30/17 at 9:59pm
Jeffrey Karasarides said: "The New York Times is negative...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/30/theater/the-parisian-woman-uma-thurman-review.html?smid=tw-nyttheater&smtyp=cur"
At least Uma got praise in this one.
#11
Posted: 11/30/17 at 10:02pm
Pam MacKinnon hasn't really been picking the best projects lately, huh?
#12
Posted: 11/30/17 at 11:26pm
Yeah, it seems that every project she's had since Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? hasn't been as well liked.
#13
Posted: 11/30/17 at 11:35pm
Maybe she's just not that strong of a director?
#14
Posted: 12/1/17 at 4:37am
This show had its world premiere at South Coast Rep n 2013. Pam MacKinnon directed that as well and it starred Dana Delany. It got very good reviews and Dana's seductive sexiness was perfectly suited to the role. I don't know what the hell they've done to it since then as I haven't seen it, but it sounds like they're desperately trying to be topical which does not appear to have served them well. And I said it when the casting was announced and I'll say it again. I love Uma but I think she is completely miscast in this. I don't know if Dana was interested in reprising her role but I don't think they considered her cause they wanted a "higher wattage star". Well, they got one. Hope they're happy.
Updated On: 12/1/17 at 04:37 AM
#15
Posted: 12/1/17 at 8:29am
Oops. Posted on wrong thread. Sorry!
Updated On: 12/1/17 at 08:29 AM
#16
Posted: 12/1/17 at 1:24pm
Danielle49 said: "Chicago Tribune is negative.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/broadway/ct-ent-parisian-woman-broadway-review-1201-story.html
I have been reading Chris Jones since 2005, and I think that is probably the meanest review he has ever written. Even when he hates something, he is generally respectful. This show must have really rubbed him the wrong way.
I'm sure it doesn't help that Beau Willomon's obviously complicity in the Kevin Spacey thing doesn't help either in regards to the way critics have reacted to this play.
#17
Posted: 12/1/17 at 1:53pm
That Chicago Tribune review has a big spoiler in it.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#18
Posted: 12/1/17 at 2:22pm
In the opening night recap, it was disheartening to see Uma so visibly shaken by the reviews.
#19
Posted: 12/1/17 at 2:30pm
I have been reading Chris Jones since 2005, and I think that is probably the meanest review he has ever written. Even when he hates something, he is generally respectful. This show must have really rubbed him the wrong way.
If the production is in Chicago, he'll praise it even when admitting it's not a great show and the performers aren't the best, but he'll give an A for effort! It's refreshing to see him be blunt about something for a change, even if it's not in Chicago (or perhaps, because it's not in Chicago).
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#20
Posted: 12/1/17 at 3:37pm
Mister Matt said: "I have been reading Chris Jones since 2005, and I think that is probably the meanest review he has ever written. Even when he hates something, he is generally respectful. This show must have really rubbed him the wrong way.
If the production is in Chicago, he'll praise it even when admitting it's not a great show and the performers aren't the best, but he'll give an A for effort! It's refreshing to see him be blunt about something for a change, even if it's not in Chicago (or perhaps,becauseit's not in Chicago)."
Yeah, he's booster-in-chief for anything in Chicago that he thinks has even a halfway decent chance of moving to New York. But that's not uncommon in regional theater criticism these days. Peter Marks does the exact same thing in DC (remember Glory Days, lol?).
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Updated On: 12/1/17 at 03:37 PM
#21
Posted: 12/1/17 at 10:29pm
broadway86 said: "In the opening night recap, it was disheartening to see Uma so visiblyshaken by the reviews."
I just watched the BWW interviews at the opening night after party. Not saying the scathing reviews are unwarranted (I haven’t seen the play), but it was truly sad to watch Uma’s interview.
#22
Posted: 12/2/17 at 9:25am
UncleCharlie said: "This show had its world premiere at South Coast Rep n 2013. Pam MacKinnon directed that as well and it starred Dana Delany. It got very good reviews and Dana's seductive sexiness was perfectly suited to the role. I don't know what the hell they've done to it since then as I haven't seen it, but it sounds like they're desperately trying to be topical which does not appear to have served them well. And I said it when the casting was announced and I'll say it again. I love Uma but I think she is completely miscast in this. I don't know if Dana was interested in reprising her role but I don't think they considered her cause they wanted a "higher wattage star". Well, they got one. Hope they're happy."
It sounds like from the reviews that Uma Thurman wasn’t really the main problem people had, but rather the writing of the show itself. We’ve all seen shows that get pretty good reviews elsewhere transfer to Broadway and the critics here aren’t nearly as impressed or in fact they are downright negative about a show that was better received elsewhere. Plus, 2013 was a different time from 2017 and maybe four years later the whole House of Cards style political intrigue is simply boring and cliche to viewers now.
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