Orlando (Signature Theatre Company) NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (51)
See it if U R a TaylorMac/CharlesLudlam/CharlesBusch fan, color in casting & costume fan, fan of Virginia Woolf/gay storytelling, joy in theater fan
Don't see it if need everything spelled out 4U, dislike whimsy & theatre with absurdist tendencies, hate cross-gender casting
See it if Great performances from ensemble cast esp Taylor Mac, Nathan Lee Graham, Lisa Kron. Very campy & often hilarious, a love letter to queerness
Don't see it if Took me awhile to get into it to realize the style of the play. Highly theatrical & narrative in direction/adaptation (it's very Brechtian)
See it if You enjoy unconventional queer theater, beautiful costumes, talented queer artists.
Don't see it if You don’t enjoy queer culture.
See it if You want to see a show with a primarily queer/trans cast and creative team take on a queer classic, or you love funny performances!
Don't see it if You want a drama.
See it if you like campy, unabashedly queer adaptations of an already-experimental book. The actors bring passion and care to challenging roles.
Don't see it if you don’t like physical or absurdist humor. The writing makes bold choices—some of which feel overwrought or prioritize style over substance
See it if you enjoy the work of Ruhl and Taylor Mac - both doing wildly bold work in this piece.
Don't see it if you do not enjoy the experimental or - perhaps - some uneven writing. The piece takes big swings and sometimes it misses.
See it if you'd like hero's life adventure th spans fr Eliz I thru 1928. Lush, lively staging (song, dance, costumes) in bare space. TMac is riveting.
Don't see it if you want themes clearly addressed (male vs female, imptce of art, meaning of life, love vs lust). Script is flawed. Uneven perfs fr ensemble
See it if Ruhl's adapt is in good hands w/Davis' minimal & campy staging Aided by 6 queer cohorts. a magnetic Taylor Mac careens through centuries
Don't see it if What Davis & Ruhl can't compensate for is the over-narration of the piece; the story is told rather than shown It loses impetus in Act 2
Critic Reviews (11)
"Writing and poetry could mean salvation for Orlando...might not be enough for this show."
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3/5 stars...Mac's tour-de-fierce performance is reason enough to plan a visit to Orlando.
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"literary classic whimsically explores gender identity"
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"...this Orlando is arch and good-natured"
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"filled with color, music, laughter, and mystery...described as pure joy."
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Just as Orlando traverses epochs, Mac persuasively shows that judy is a star for the ages.
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"we do feel Taylor Mac’s absence when he goes offstage to change costumes"
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"the right time by the exact right cast but the production doesn’t feel exactly right."
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