Doubt: A Parable
Opening Night: March 7, 2024
Theater: American Airlines
Website: www.roundabouttheatre.org
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March 7, 2024
But John Patrick Shanley’s “Doubt: A Parable,” first seen on Broadway in 2005, is much more than that. It is a sturdy melodrama, an infallible crowd-pleaser, a detective yarn, a character study and an inquest into the unknowable.
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March 8, 2024
Perhaps, with more time for Ryan to settle into the habit, I could write a very different review. But until then, this play about faith will continue to commit the ultimate theatrical sin — boredom.
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March 7, 2024
Roundabout Theatre Company’s Broadway revival, directed by Scott Ellis, is mostly very effective.
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March 7, 2024
That the play holds up as well as it does – and it really does – is due in large part to a top-tier cast that the Roundabout Theater Company has assembled, an ensemble that keeps us guessing from beginning to end.
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March 7, 2024
“Doubt: A Parable” sets up a fascinating power play between two very unequal forces, and it’s thrilling to watch Amy Ryan’s nun and Liev Schreiber’s priest duke it out for 90 minutes on stage. A feisty revival of John Patrick Shanley’s play opened Thursday at the Roundabout’s Todd Haimes Theatre.
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Directed by Scott Ellis, Doubt makes every single second count, and even though it may be over at a brisk 90-minutes, the story and performances will stay with you for much, much longer.
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March 7, 2024
Doubt is still one of the essential dramas of our time, with a story that is more relevant than ever.
READ THE REVIEWMarch 7, 2024
Twenty years later, all reasonable doubt has been removed from Shanley’s parable. This taut drama, back in a gripping new Broadway production from the Roundabout Theatre Company and director Scott Ellis, plays like a cautionary tale, an ode to those who found the courage to stand up to abusers and side with the young and the vulnerable.
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March 7, 2024
March 7, 2024
Doubt‘s many complexities continue to swirl in my mind days after I attended the show. One thing of which I have no doubt, though, is that Doubt delivers a riveting, well-acted, and utterly unmissable night at the theatre.
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March 7, 2024
It’s the packaging part that hits hollowly. In and of itself, Doubt is still a sharp and sturdy piece of writing. It’s also tonally broader than Ellis gives it credit for.
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The excellent Broadway revival, directed by Scott Ellis for the Roundabout Theatre Company, starring Amy Ryan and Liev Schreiber, presents the play without any intentional new slant on its ideas, but it gives audiences a chance to consider them in an altered context.
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March 7, 2024
She’s matched by her castmates, as well as David Rockwell’s exquisite church set, which rotates to fold in on itself even as its cloistered garden provides a glimmer of hopeful ascent. If this Doubt leaves room for growth, there is still none left as to the play’s intense brilliance.
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