The Understudy - Off-Broadway

Reviews

• Review by David Rooney
  from Variety
  November 5, 2009

  ‘‘"The one-act gains considerable fizz from [director] Scott Ellis' punchy production and from the bristling interplay of its three fine actors, each of them exposing different shades of a profession that ricochets between glory and rejection."’’

• Review by Charles Isherwood
  from The New York Times
  November 6, 2009

  ‘‘"The full eye roll, virtually a reflex gesture for many New Yorkers, becomes a comic drama in itself in [star Julie] White’s hands—or should I say sockets? Even Ms. White’s...agile frame seems to embody perfectly a state of brittle anxiousness, like a tuning fork ever primed to be set quivering."  ’’

• Review by Dan Kois
  from New York Magazine
  November 7, 2009

  ‘‘"Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Justin Kirk and Julie White are a thoroughly excellent trio."’’

• Review by Terry Teachout
  from The Wall Street Journal
  November 5, 2009

  ‘‘"[Playwright] Theresa Rebeck's The Understudy is a masterpiece of comic clockwork. Pulverizingly funny!"’’

• Review by David Cote
  from Time Out New York
  November 5, 2009

  ‘‘"[Director] Scott Ellis' production [of The Understudy] is impeccably cast and paced."’’