Tennessee Williams's The Night of the Iguana Revival 2023
Opened: December 17, 2023Closing: February 25, 2024
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The Pershing Square Signature Center [Irene Diamond Stage]
480 West 42nd Street (between Dyer and 10th Avenues) New York, NY 10036
In Tennessee Williams’s The Night of the Iguana, a defrocked clergyman encounters inside disturbances amid outside disturbances during one stormy night at the Costa Verde Hotel in Acapulco as the world prepares for World War II. After four women of different ages and backgrounds, along with a 97-year-old poet, engage in the clergyman’s spiritual struggles, their lives leap dramatically forward. And the catalytic, defrocked clergyman survives the night.
Tennessee Williams's The Night of the Iguana - 2023 - Off-Broadway Cast
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'The Night of the Iguana' review
6 / 10
Daly’s Shannon is competent, but his jittery gruffness doesn’t leave enough room for sympathy, and it’s not exactly crazed enough to insert a sense of exciting theatricality in the midst of the more human (and maybe more banal) crisis of faith and sanity. Lichty’s Hannah, in comparison, is soft, gentle, perhaps prudish. She is supposed to be tender where Shannon is prickly, serene where he is sweaty. But her dramatic dilemma — her loneliness and the way in which her clear-eyed belief in connection contrasts with Shannon’s failure of faith — feel a bit undercooked. Her performance is reminiscent of Mia Farrow in Woody Allen movies, with the timbre of Jane Fonda’s voice, but without the forcefulness. Between the pair, there isn’t enough thrust, even if it’s to get through the evening with one’s scruples or heart intact.
Cold-Blooded Tennessee Williams: The Night of the Iguana
6 / 10
Mann’s production does best when, in the third act, Shannon and Hannah spend a dark night of the soul together sipping poppy tea after he’s had a breakdown. She describes her few brief and lonely sexual encounters with men, and he opens up more fully about his sense of spiritual abandonment. They also talk a lot, yes, about that trapped iguana. In the blue night light, surrounded by the rusted metal and creaky wood of Beowulf Borritt’s set, there’s an air of mutual confession and healing—two burnouts finding some kind of peace in the ashes. But where’s the immolation that got them there? There are two long acts before you hit that moment, and they are tough, slow going without a flame.
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Video: Go Inside Opening Night of THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA
by Nicole Rosky - December 23, 2023
by Nicole Rosky - December 23, 2023
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by Bruce Glikas - December 18, 2023
by Bruce Glikas - December 18, 2023
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by Stephi Wild - December 18, 2023
by Stephi Wild - December 18, 2023
An all new production of Tennessee Williams's timeless masterpiece The Night of the Iguana, directed by Tony Award nominee Emily Mann, has officially opened Off-Broadway! Read the reviews for The Night of the Iguana here!
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How long has Tennessee Williams's The Night of the Iguana been running Off-Broadway?
Tennessee Williams's The Night of the Iguana opened at the The Pershing Square Signature Center [Irene Diamond Stage] on Sunday Dec 17, 2023 and has now been running for 2 months.
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Other Productions of Tennessee Williams's The Night of the Iguana
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| 1976 | Broadway |
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| 1988 | Broadway |
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| 1996 | Broadway |
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| 2017 | Regional (US) |
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| 2019 | West End |
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| 2023 | Off-Broadway |
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