The Heiress - Broadway

Reviews

• Review by Jeremy Gerard
  from Bloomberg News
  November 3, 2012

  ‘‘This classically trained actress [Chastain], an Oscar nominee for 'The Help' and ubiquitous onscreen this past year, brings a trembling, quiet delicacy to Catherine Sloper, the title role in Moises Kaufman’s revival of 'The Heiress.'’’

• Review by Elisabeth Vincentelli
  from The New York Post
  November 2, 2012

  ‘‘No wonder 'The Heiress' has returned to Broadway time and again since its 1947 premiere. Romance, money, lies, manipulation and petticoats: Ruth and Augustus Goetz’s melodrama has it all.’’

• Review by Mark Kennedy
  from The Associated Press
  November 2, 2012

  ‘‘Full credit goes to Chastain, who has buried herself in dullness to play one of theater's more formidable proto-feminist roles.’’

• Review by Thom Geier
  from Entertainment Weekly
  November 1, 2012

  ‘‘Director Moises Kaufman's crisp, first-rate production finds an admirable complexity in Ruth and Augustus Goetz' 1947 drama, based on the Henry James novel 'Washington Square.'’’

• Review by Ben Brantley
  from The New York Times
  November 1, 2012

  ‘‘There were five separate outbreaks of applause during the first 10 minutes. The first came as soon as the curtain rose on Derek McLane’s set, a sumptuous interior of a New York house on Washington Square that might do double duty for an episode of Masterpiece’s silver-plated hit ‘Downton Abbey.’’’