Peter Pan Goes Wrong
Opening Night: April 19, 2023
Theater: Ethel Barrymore
Website: pangoeswrongbway.com
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April 19, 2023
In “Peter Pan Goes Wrong,” which opened Wednesday at the Ethel Barrymore Theater, with a game Neil Patrick Harris in a guest role, the jokes and mishaps are still funny, if not quite as magical the second time around.
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April 19, 2023
Under Adam Meggido’s explosive direction, the result is a sometimes repetitive but always relentlessly funny production that stresses the exacting choreography of great comedy.
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April 19, 2023
Yet as in Cornley’s last show, the game resilience of the actors—as they suffer through relentless variations on disaster slapstick—gets a little tiring, at least for me, when offered in a two-hour dose.
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April 19, 2023
A sequel to “The Play That Goes Wrong” has arrived in the form of “Peter Pan Goes Wrong,” an endlessly funny and inventive imaging of a hopefully misguided production of “Peter Pan” that is plagued by endless mishaps, mistakes, and injuries.
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April 19, 2023
The cast of “Peter Pan Goes Wrong” is exquisite, and exceptional when it comes to making the dangerous aspects of mayhem and mistakes look accidental.
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April 19, 2023
The latest impeccable demonstration of disaster-farce concocted and performed by Britain’s gift-to-the-world Mischief Theatre, Peter Pan Goes Wrong currently guest stars Neil Patrick Harris, who fits in so well with the ensemble that he seems like just another one of the gang. That’s high praise for both.
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April 19, 2023
The title says it all and, if you’re game, then you’ll be (Captain) hooked by the Broadway transfer of Mischief Theatre’s London hit, now in performance at the Barrymore Theatre and starring Neil Patrick Harris (in the surprisingly involved role of Narrator) for just a few performances.
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April 19, 2023
After various engagements on the West End and elsewhere in the U.K., “Peter Pan Goes Wrong” opened Wednesday at Broadway’s Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The authors are Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, who also wrote that previous “Goes Wrong” play, which continues to perform Off Broadway after a long run on Broadway.
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April 19, 2023
I do believe in f – – kups! I do! I do! And that’s what “Peter Pan Goes Wrong,” the happily hyperactive comedy that opened Wednesday night on Broadway, provides: missteps, mayhem, incapacitations, faulty sets and, in a roundabout way, “Fawlty Towers.”
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April 19, 2023
If you believe in electrical fires, clap your hands. This is just the preshow for Peter Pan Goes Wrong, now at Broadway’s Ethel Barrymore Theatre, but it perfectly sets the tone for the following two hours of artfully choreographed chaos.
READ THE REVIEWApril 19, 2023
Even without Neil Patrick Harris — the star turn massively juicing up ticket sales for a few weeks — “Peter Pan Goes Wrong” will be a great night out for a family audience. The politically incorrect show is a total blast and one of the very few Broadway attractions where kids are encouraged to clap, boo and talk back to the annoying actors.
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April 19, 2023
It’s basic, lowest-common-denominator theater, but it tends to work with variable but generally positive returns. Let this cast entertain you. Let their bonks make you smile.
READ THE REVIEWApril 19, 2023
But Peter Pan Goes Wrong benefits from the familiar framing of a classic story: There is anticipatory laughter in waiting to see just how the amateur company will hoist actors in the air and fashion a crocodile. (The answers: poorly, and with an actor in a childish onesie on a rolling board.)
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