“At just 1 hour and 45 minutes, with no intermission, a play should not feel padded, but it does. Still, it is hardly without its pleasures: It’s funnier than expected, and Sher’s poetic naturalism as he creates stage pictures is always moving to watch. “
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“As in any play about a family, White covers expected territory about generational divides, legacies, mortality, and finally, love.”
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“White’s ‘Pictures From Home’ sometimes feels like an illustrated lecture about itself, and of images that are meant to say enough on their own.”
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“ ‘Pictures From Home,’ the play, ends up being a very good argument for ‘Pictures From Home,’ the memoir, but not much of one for itself.”
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“Sultan’s portraiture was a combination of candid and staged, exquisitely composed in a way that Sher’s production is not...Everything onstage looks cold by contrast.”
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“...’Pictures From Home’ remains two-dimensional. It’s more a comic gloss on the family’s sometimes fractious but loving relationships than the more searching examination of the images we project, in photos and in life, in contrast to the murkiness of our interior lives, that the play seems to be striving toward.”
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“While the intimate and honest views of a family’s inner workings can’t help but touch our hearts at steadily paced moments, ‘Pictures From Home’ is too blunt in its characterizations...we can’t help but feeling sympathy for all concerned, characters and actors, but, sad to say, it’s the arguments we’ll remember.”
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“As Broadway obsesses over youth and revolt, here’s a sweet and wise Broadway play about just wanting your mom and dad to keep on going, to wish they could live for ever and to realize that any artist can complain and roar but some wise ones choose instead to render their loved ones immortal.”
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