Well, I’ll Let You Go Off-Broadway Reviews

Now playing Off-Broadway at Studio Seaview, Bubba Weiler’s Well, I’ll Let You Go is a poignant play about loss, cloaked in mystery and structured like a detective procedural: A guest stops by Maggie’s house; she makes them coffee as they offer ...

Now playing Off-Broadway at Studio Seaview, Bubba Weiler’s Well, I’ll Let You Go is a poignant play about loss, cloaked in mystery and structured like a detective procedural: A guest stops by Maggie’s house; she makes them coffee as they offer condolences and reveal new information about Marv, then leave. A narrator (Matthew Maher) interrupts the repetition to offer further backstory, creating a slow drip that stays one step ahead of the audience.

Unspeakable tragedy—of a sort unimaginable only a few years ago, but now almost predictably commonplace—is at the center of Well, I’ll Let You Go. Playwright Bubba Weiler concentrates not on the horror of the event, but on the struggle to piece...

Unspeakable tragedy—of a sort unimaginable only a few years ago, but now almost predictably commonplace—is at the center of Well, I’ll Let You Go. Playwright Bubba Weiler concentrates not on the horror of the event, but on the struggle to piece together the how and the why. Combine a keenly wrought puzzle of a play, masterfully understated direction by Jack Serio, and an astonishing performance by Quincy Tyler Bernstine, and you have a remarkable evening at Studio Seaview.

When a playwright tells a truly great story, it’s often difficult to review what’s happening on stage. The pleasure comes from watching that story unfold in the theater, not reading about it in a review. That proverbial onion needs to be unpeeled...

When a playwright tells a truly great story, it’s often difficult to review what’s happening on stage. The pleasure comes from watching that story unfold in the theater, not reading about it in a review. That proverbial onion needs to be unpeeled layer by layer in front of a rapt audience that will be both shocked and moved to tears by what’s unexpectedly discovered at the play’s core.

Bubba Weiler’s transcendent one-act drama Well, I’ll Let You Go, which debuted last summer at Brooklyn’s The Space at Irondale, was my pick as the best New York theater production of last year. The show now makes a triumphant reappearance at Ma...

Bubba Weiler’s transcendent one-act drama Well, I’ll Let You Go, which debuted last summer at Brooklyn’s The Space at Irondale, was my pick as the best New York theater production of last year. The show now makes a triumphant reappearance at Manhattan’s Studio Seaview with all but one of its pitch-perfect original cast members reprising their roles. Anyone who cares about theater, or deeply human storytelling, should run to see this show — which is boosted by a riveting performance by Quincy Tyler Bernstine as a new widow whose fundamental kindness forces her to manage other people’s reaction to her grief as well as her own feelings of loss and confusion. That, and the lingering suspicion that her late husband may have been harboring a dark secret.

Most of all Well, I'll Let You Go transforms the mundane details of Maggie's story into something authentically luminous, a meditation on the gorgeous singularity of every human life, no matter how fleeting. Last summer, I thought Well, I'll Let You ...

Most of all Well, I'll Let You Go transforms the mundane details of Maggie's story into something authentically luminous, a meditation on the gorgeous singularity of every human life, no matter how fleeting. Last summer, I thought Well, I'll Let You Go was a notable debut. Now it looks like a major event.