Giant - Off-Broadway

Reviews

• Review by Erik Haagensen
  from Backstage
  November 16, 2012

  ‘‘Director Michael Greif stages the show seamlessly on Allen Moyer’s spare set, which combines with lighting designer Kenneth Posner’s washes of color on a cloud-strewn scrim to effectively suggest the tale’s vast open spaces.’’

• Review by Terry Teachout
  from The Wall Street Journal
  November 16, 2012

  ‘‘'Giant' is the most important new musical to come along since 'The Light in the Piazza.' It's a show of immense and fully realized promise—and it deserves to move uptown.’’

• Review by Ben Brantley
  from The New York Times
  November 16, 2012

  ‘‘Mr. LaChiusa has a wide musical vocabulary, and he deploys it deftly in numbers that subtly incorporate the styles of different eras and cultures, from the 1920s to the 1950s.’’

• Review by Thom Geier
  from Entertainment Weekly
  November 16, 2012

  ‘‘Michael John LaChiusa's ambition is as big as Texas, which seems appropriate for his sprawling and terrific new musical...the composer has crafted one of the finest new American musicals in recent memory.’’