The Twenty-Seventh Man - Off-Broadway

Reviews

• Review by Jocelyn Noveck
  from Associated Press
  November 19, 2012

  ‘‘[Director Barry] Edelstein is blessed with a uniformly excellent cast.’’

• Review by Charles Isherwood
  from The New York Times
  November 18, 2012

  ‘‘Set largely in a prison cell, where time drips slowly by as a handful of writers await their fate, the play, which opened on Sunday night at the Public Theater, certainly captures the clammy sense of entrapment that finds the men slowly pecking away at each other’s foibles to pass the long hours.’’

• Review by Keith Staskiewicz
  from Entertainment Weekly
  November 18, 2012

  ‘‘Director Barry Edelstein uses the relatively tiny set well, shuffling the blocking enough to ward off stagnancy without ever letting the actors clutter. The acting is top-notch, particularly from Zien...’’

• Review by David Sheward
  from Backstage
  November 18, 2012

  ‘‘Director Barry Edelstein perfectly balances a growing sense of menace with leavening lightness. The atmosphere he creates is indeed horrifying, but there’s just enough humor to make it bearable.’’

• Review by Charles Isherwood
  from The New York Times
  November 18, 2012

  ‘‘A first-class production and a first-rate cast...’’