Jesse
Green

February 9, 2023

Though honorable, thoughtful and wonderful to look at, with crafty performances by Danny Burstein, Zoë Wanamaker and especially Nathan Lane, it caulks so many of the book’s expressive cracks that the best thing about it — its mystery — is sealed out.

Brittani
Samuel

February 9, 2023

But with a single circular argument and no exacting point of view, the production suffers in an attempt to resurrect its source. Ambiguity can sell a photobook, but in this case, it only dulls a play.

Adam
Feldman

February 9, 2023

But one challenge of adapting photography into family drama is that it has a lot of explaining to do. 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.

Robert
Hofler

February 9, 2023

It is precisely the kind of mundane minutiae that made Neil Simon’s comedies so popular in the 1960s and ’70s – and why those plays have dated so badly. In an age of climate change and annual pandemics, jokes about the size of zucchini (Irving was also an avid gardener) seem lame.

Greg
Evans

February 9, 2023

By the play’s end, we can’t help but feeling sympathy for all concerned, characters and actors, but, sad to say, it’s the arguments we’ll remember.

Juan A.
Ramirez

February 9, 2023

Now adapted by Sharr White into a play of the same name, ably directed by Bartlett Sher, these images come to life through a trio of veteran actors, with Danny Burstein in the role of artist as eternal child, and creates an often moving portrait of family as an uncapturable, captivating subject.

Jackson
McHenry

February 9, 2023

Yet White’s script can’t quite live up to the pictures’ immediacy. He provides us with a series of vignettes, often about Larry trying to coax his parents into letting down their guard enough for him to make the photo he wants, but the drama tends to reveal less than the pictures do, and it takes longer.

Tim
Teeman

February 9, 2023

The three actors try to wring as many of the laughs and jolting moments from the script as possible. But they are navigating a mostly flaccid narrative which feels like a boring treasure hunt with lots of clues and teases, but ultimately no glinting treasure.

New York Daily News

Chris
Jones

February 9, 2023

But the cool thing about Sharr White’s intriguing and rather haunting Broadway play “Pictures From Home,” which stars Nathan Lane, Zoë Wanamaker and Danny Burstein, is that it differs from every other play or musical I’ve seen of late in that it actually gives the family enough ammunition to fight back.

Johnny
Oleksinski

February 9, 2023

Wall Street Journal

Charles
Isherwood

February 9, 2023

For while the production is impeccable and the performances polished and funny, the play, adapted by Sharr White from Larry Sultan’s memoir-cum-photography book, feels like a snapshot that hasn’t been fully developed, to borrow the handiest simile. Diffuse and sometimes repetitive, it uncomfortably resembles the scrapbook of sorts on which it is based.

New York Theatre Guide

Joe
Dziemianowicz

February 9, 2023

“I’m exploring.” That’s what the acclaimed photographer Larry Sultan tells his parents in Pictures From Home, a surprisingly touching new play based on his 1992 photo memoir of the same name.