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I’m not entirely sure what I was expecting, but The Minutes certainly wasn’t it. But I saw The Minutes when it finally opened on Broadway earlier this month.
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However, I had to wait to experience the Steppenwolf Theater Company’s staging of the play when, in the spring of 2020, the Broadway run suddenly shut down in previews because of the Covid pandemic. I also genuinely appreciated Letts’s 2019 play Linda Vista, a compelling character study centered around Ian Barford’s intensely human performance as a sad man frustrated with his own contrary nature.Īdvance word about the 2017 Chicago production of The Minutes had been strong. In August, Letts was able to mix horrifying proceedings and reprehensible people into an intoxicating concoction that belied its prodigious three-hour length. I had greatly enjoyed Letts’s Pulitzer Prize-winner, August: Osage County, which remains one of my favorite nights in the theater.
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And the feeling that came upon me after the final minutes of the play was … befuddlement. I thought about that exhortation immediately after watching The Minutes, the new Broadway play from Pulitzer-winner Tracy Letts. I would exhort students to then think about where that reaction came from and start building their case for or against the work that they’re evaluating based on that feeling.
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When I’ve taught courses in arts criticism, I’ve often recommended that students start crafting their reviews around the feeling that the show or book or movie left them with. Blair Brown and Austin Pendleton in The Minutes. At Studio 54, 254 West 54 Street (between Broadway & 8th Avenue), NYC. Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Letts’s new Broadway play features an intriguing premise and a shocking denouement.