Let's Love! is a comedy, a trio of one acts, that explores love in all its miserable glory. The world is a confusing place and we are a confused people. But it's easier to be confused together, so---let's love!
We can’t wait to welcome back four-time Atlantic playwright and Academy Award winner Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men) and Atlantic Artistic Director, Tony Award nominee Neil Pepe (American Buffalo).
Hey there, straight adults: Atlantic Theater Company offers Let’s Love!, a trio of short, not-so-sweet comedies on heterosexual affairs. Oh, the rest of us can enjoy the program, too, since love’s emotional confusions are known to most people, one way or another. Neil Pepe, the company’s artistic director, stages the plays in a typically neat, well-acted Atlantic production that premiered on Wednesday. All that, plus an impish Nellie McKay has been engaged to stroll out and croon little tunes at a baby grand between the acts. There’s no intermission, so you’ll be in and out of the theater in 90 minutes.
For all its exclamation mark, Let's Love! confuses cruelty for comedy and explores love more through crude provocations and bodily functions than genuine emotional commitment. If Coen is trying to expose human folly or moral decrepitude, he doesn't build the coherence or analytical distance that true satire needs. In a tacked-on, final tableau, the entire ensemble suddenly joins McKay in a deliberately cacophonous "love song." Perhaps this jam wants to suggest harmony in imperfection, but it plays like a curtain call for ideas unearned.
| 2025 | Off-Broadway |
Atlantic Theater Company World Premiere Off-Broadway |
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