Orlando
Closing: May 12, 2024Orlando - 2024 Off-Broadway History , Info & More
The Pershing Square Signature Center [Irene Diamond Stage]
480 West 42nd Street (between Dyer and 10th Avenues) New York, NY 10036
Playwright Sarah Ruhl adapts Virginia Woolf’s Orlando—once called “the longest and most charming love letter in literature,” written by Woolf for her lover, Vita Sackville-West. Orlando’s adventures begin as a young man, when he serves as courtier to Queen Elizabeth. Through many centuries of living, he becomes a 20th-century woman, trying to sort out her existence. This theatrical, wild, fantastical trip through space, time, and gender features the one and only Taylor Mac in the title role.
Orlando - 2024 - Off-Broadway Cast
FEATURED REVIEWS FOR Orlando
Orlando
7 / 10
Occasionally, Davis's staging, which includes periodic dance breaks (and with assistance from Brendan Aanes's sound design, captures the thrum of a discotheque), overdoes the satirical elements as if to emphasize the relevance of the situations and themes. Yet the cast (which is rounded out by the impressively mutable Jo Lampert and TL Thompson) are adept at reining in their performances as moments veer toward camp excesses.
Orlando Review
6 / 10
The episodic adventures should be delightful, but they are instead removed and remote, for a compound of reasons. Ruhl’s script relies on narration rather than dialogue (of which there is admittedly relatively little in Woolf’s novel.) Six of the cast members (all but Mac) spend most of their time not as characters but as chorus members. They divvy up their exposition, often one single line after another. And they are often huddled together on a stage that is essentially bare – which results in a vastness that swallows up their lines.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 22, 2024
See what the critics are saying about Orlando at Signature Theatre. Read the reviews and learn more about the production.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 14, 2024
Signature Theatre has revealed the cast of Spotlight Resident Sarah Ruhl’s Orlando, adapted from Virginia Woolf’s novel and directed by Will Davis.
Orlando FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Three Hundred Rooms
Trumpeters Play
Out There
Too Old for Heroes
Innocence, Simplicity
Wildly in Love with Orlando
Song of the Azores
The Great Frost Fair
Russian Princess
I Want You to Know
Day of My Life
Bazaar
Dear Titty
From Now On
Goats
Constant Star
Lady Present
London
Society
Life and a Lover
Mustard with the Meat
Worlds There May Be
Moment Away
Wedding March
Orlando History
Other Productions of Orlando
| 1988 | London |
Original London Production London |
| 2022 | West End |
West End |
| 2024 | Off-Broadway |
Signature Theater Off-Broadway Production Off-Broadway |
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