The Visitors Off-Broadway Reviews

Jenna Worsham deftly directs the play’s bait-and-switches, including several a-ha moments in the first scene that frame the characters’ relationships to one another. It’s a clever, sometimes tricky device that could easily feel deceptive. Here,...

Jenna Worsham deftly directs the play’s bait-and-switches, including several a-ha moments in the first scene that frame the characters’ relationships to one another. It’s a clever, sometimes tricky device that could easily feel deceptive. Here, though, it becomes an invitation — and a welcome one.

By the end of Turner's caustic and moving play, the characters have revealed that they are the same people they were as children–only worse. Yet, even as we are nearly subsumed by the self-centeredness and rapacity of the people who are supposed to...

By the end of Turner's caustic and moving play, the characters have revealed that they are the same people they were as children–only worse. Yet, even as we are nearly subsumed by the self-centeredness and rapacity of the people who are supposed to love us, The Visitors offers a glimmer of hope that something sweet and sustaining can still rescue us from the brink.

Yes, the premise is forced. Would Joanna really ask these semi-estranged siblings to drop everything and meet her in person instead of making separate requests over Zoom? This is a family of emotional toddlers, after all, and Joanna is not entirely e...

Yes, the premise is forced. Would Joanna really ask these semi-estranged siblings to drop everything and meet her in person instead of making separate requests over Zoom? This is a family of emotional toddlers, after all, and Joanna is not entirely exempt from that description (despite Naomi’s attempts to rein in her lover’s more outrageous, self-defeating impulses). But there’s an honesty to Turner’s characterizations in The Visitors, and a genuine humor, that justify spending time with this fractured family.