Broadway Review: Allison Janney in ‘Six Degrees of Separation’
7 / 10
Despite the vitalizing presence of Allison Janney in director Trip Cullman's elegant revival, 'Six Degrees of Separation' lacks the comic bite of the original production. In its time, John Guare's 1990 social satire about New York sophisticates who are duped by a young black con man was an amusing embarrassment for the city's various tribes of arty intelligentsia. (The story was based on a true incident.) Today, with social barriers considerably more fluid, the con seems quaint. Were sophisticated New Yorkers ever that gullible?
