Talkin' Broadway on Broadway Review: "Becky Shaw" 4/6/26
Here's a bit of wisdom to cross-stitch on a throw pillow: "There are times when lying is the most humane thing you can do." Well, maybe. But in the case of Second Stage's glistening revival …
Here's a bit of wisdom to cross-stitch on a throw pillow: "There are times when lying is the most humane thing you can do." Well, maybe. But in the case of Second Stage's glistening revival …
A splendid comedy of bad manners returns to Second Stage Theatre.
A blind date spirals spectacularly off the rails in Becky Shaw, the razor-sharp dark comedy from two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Gina Gionfriddo. When it made its New York premiere Off-Broa…
It's Gina Gionfriddo's iron guts that make an incisive, observant, scathing, and hilarious play like Becky Shaw possible. The post Broadway Finally Meets Becky Shaw, and She's Got a Sharp To…
And in a moment when so much theater puts on kid gloves to handle its material and its audience, it can be bracing to have a play walk right up and slap you across the face. That's how Trip …
The reviews are rolling in for Becky Shaw at Second Stage's Hayes Theater on Broadway. The Broadway production of Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw, directed by Trip Cullman, stars Patrick Ball, …
Trip Cullman is at the helm of the new play from two-time Pulitzer finalist Gina Gionfriddo.
Alden Ehrenreich makes a show-stealing Broadway debut in Gina Gionfriddo's comedy about two old friends, one disastrous blind date and the dicey aftermath.
For six scenes, "Becky Shaw" unfolds in shadows " David Zinn's dark grays, Stacey Derosier's moody shafts of light illuminating secrets and lies. Then, in scene seven, everything floods with…
Hayes Theater, New YorkEhrenreich is electric alongside The Pitt's Patrick Ball in this very 2008 send-up of fallout from one disastrous blind date You'd be hard-pressed to find a more relat…
★★★★★ Gina Gionfriddo's 2008 black comedy gets a masterful revival from Second Stage Theater The post Becky Shaw: A Brilliant Dissection of Love and Family Dys…
The knock-out funny and audaciously awkward revival of the play "Becky Shaw," which opened Monday night at the Hayes, triggers an uncommon response " involuntary outbursts.
Seventeen years after being nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, Gina Gionfriddo's dark, sometimes giddy comedy Becky Shaw finally arrives on Broadway, and noting that it was worth the wait is an…
Becky Shaw is a work of surprises.
Alden Ehrenreich might be lucky "Solo: A Star Wars Story" was such a box office bomb. Because what was bad for his bank account was fantastic for his creative freedom, liberating Ehrenreich,…
Stop me if you've heard this one before: A narcissistic psychopath, an insecure dependent, a borderline, and a perpetual savior walk into a theater… and create one of the funniest and most…
★★★★☆ Gina Gionfriddo's Pulitzer-finalist comedy gets a hilariously razor-sharp Broadway revival featuring a top-flight cast. The post Becky Shaw: Social Climb…
The audience gasped almost as frequently as it laughed during the performance I attended of "Becky Shaw," Gina Gionfriddo's fierce, funny comedy that revolves around a bad blind date. What a…
BECKY SHAW is now playing on Broadway. Get your tickets: https://cart.2st.com/events/5886?view=calendar
Ehrenreich, Ball, and Madeline Brewer make their Broadway debuts in the razor-sharp dating comedy.
Emmy nominee Madeline Brewer, Tony winner Lauren Patten, The Pitt's Patrick Ball, more star in the comedy.
At the Thursday, April 2 performance of Broadway's Becky Shaw, Second Stage Theater will be hosting "Night of a Thousand Beckys" at the Hayes Theater! In celebration of Becky Shaw, the p…
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This blind date just got a little more transparent. Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw began performances on Broadway at the Hayes Theater on March 18, ahead of opening night on April 6. A set-up …