6/9/2023 0 Comments The minutes broadway reviewThough it is being performed at the Roundabout-operated Studio 54, The Minutes is not a Roundabout Theatre Company production. ![]() Johnson, Emily Dobbs, Robert Flicker, Jacob Soroken Porter, and The Shubert Organization. Assalone, Tracy Letts as Mayor Superba and Cliff Chamberlain as Mr. When you walk into Studio 54 for The Minutes, you see a cavernous room on stage, featuring a white rotunda ceiling, a line of plush chairs and conference tables with microphones attached. Entertaining, thought-provoking, puzzling, conversation-starting. Review: Minutiae turns sinister in ‘The Minutes’. Viewed totally, it’s an example of theater at its best. It’s a satire of small-town politics, individual grievances and so much more. Lane/Bonnie Comley/Leah Lane, Kathleen K. '.Steppenwolf Theatre’s world premiere of The Minutes by Tracy Letts takes place during a small town city council meeting. ![]() Leading the producing team are Jeffrey Richards, Rebecca Gold, Carl Moellenberg, Spencer Ross, and Louise Gund with Jayne Baron Sherman, Elizabeth Armstrong, Blakeman Entertainment, HornosBerger, Across the River Productions, Stewart F. Theater Review: The Minutes on Broadway Beguiles and Befuddles Ap1 Comment By Christopher Caggiano Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts’s new Broadway play features an intriguing premise and a shocking denouement. Shapiro, the production features scenic design by David Zinn, costume design by Ana Kuzmanic, lighting design by Brian MacDevitt, sound design and original music by André Pluess, hair and wig design by Tom Watson, dramaturgy by Edward Sobel, and casting by Caparelliotis Casting. The play that resulted, The Minutes, won praise when it first ran at Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago, where performance began in 2017. The Minutes, which premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in 2017, takes a look at the inner workings of a city council meeting and the hypocrisy, greed, and ambition that bubble to the surface when a newcomer to the small town of Big Cherry starts to ask the wrong questions.ĭirected by Anna D. The Minutes is both a political comedy and a wicked, methodically plotted horror show, not unlike American democracy and its original sins. ![]() The ensemble cast at the time of the shutdown also included Letts himself and fellow Tony winners Jessie Mueller and Blair Brown. Armie Hammer dropped out of the production in April following sexual assault allegations and an LAPD investigation. Casting will be announced at a later date, but one star will not be returning. The Broadway premiere of The Minutes has found a new home at Studio 54, after playing a run of previews at the Cort Theatre ( now undergoing renovations) prior to the COVID-19 shutdown.Īs previously announced, the Tracy Letts play will return in March 2022, with an opening night now set for April 7.
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