“Its hailstorm of ideas remains stunning — and aptly painful if, as a proud progressive, you’re struck in the face by the ice of its wit. But as human drama goes, and despite fine performances by Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan, it’s hard to discern a satisfying emotional shape in all the weather. It’s blurry.”
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“Hansberry’s play has plenty of sweep – maybe too much. It takes on racism, anti-Semitism, political corruption, suicide, homosexuality, and social activism. Performances are all over the map.”
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“The play is harsh, but as it pares its hero down, it reveals something hopeful...Hansberry has this hope that, from a gesture, a streak of actual commitment might be revealed in Sidney like a vein of gold.”
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“What Hansberry sensitively captures, through most of the characters, is that troubling period in many people’s lives when the ideals of youth begin to seem chimerical, and getting a firm foothold on more practical kinds of success suddenly seems alluring.”
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“It’s a funnier, rangier and in some ways more ambitious play that gives its central character attributes both magnetic and off-putting.”
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“Things will only get worse if people don't stand together and fight for a better world...’The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window’ remains a powerful call to embrace that fight. This imaginatively-staged, passionately-acted production does justice to her political vision.”
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“...it unfortunately did not come together into a coherent, critical-minded play but rather a plodding diatribe full of one-dimensional characters and melodramatic plot twists.”
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“...Kauffman's thrilling staging — led by the terrific Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan — brings Hansberry's words to life with the urgency of something written yesterday. Sure, it's a little hirsute but the whole thing is just so alive that it's nothing short of dazzling.”
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