Tag: A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney

“There’s certainly a twinkle in Uncle Walt’s blue eyes…in a superb production…as is often the case with this first-class downtown company”

The New York Times

“This cast of actor’s actors delivers the blunt, fragmented, elliptical music of Hnath’s dialogue with great wit and precision. Wood’s hangdog whine, Sgambati’s shiny brutality, Quaid’s quivering rage—they all play off the central force of Pine’s silken presence perfectly. And Pine is magnificent…Nothing that ever came out of the Magic Kingdom was ever this animated”

Time Out New York

“A blood-pumping and often hilarious evening of theater…Beyond being very funny, the poetic brevity and jarring choppiness of [Hnath’s] dialogue captures the spirit of a generation of civic-minded Americans, like Disney…”

TheaterMania

“Explosive…How’d they do that?, you wonder. But it’s just par for the course in Benson’s downtown magic kingdom.”

New York Daily News

“In its darkly comic dissection of an all-American icon, this Public Reading is no Mickey Mouse production.”

Entertainment Weekly