Tennessee Williams's The Night of the Iguana Off-Broadway

Tennessee Williams's The Night of the Iguana Revival 2023

Opened: December 17, 2023
Closing: February 25, 2024

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The Pershing Square Signature Center [Irene Diamond Stage]

480 West 42nd Street (between Dyer and 10th Avenues) New York, NY 10036

In Tennessee Williams’s The Night of the Iguana, a defrocked clergyman encounters inside disturbances amid outside disturbances during one stormy night at the Costa Verde Hotel in Acapulco as the world prepares for World War II. After four women of different ages and backgrounds, along with a 97-year-old poet, engage in the clergyman’s spiritual struggles, their lives leap dramatically forward. And the catalytic, defrocked clergyman survives the night.

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Daphne Rubin-Vega

Lea DeLaria

Keith Randolph Smith

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THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA: WILLIAMS AT HIS BEST, PRODUCTION NOT

4 / 10

Shortened and much tweaked, it eliminates, for instance, Nazi enthusiasts Herr Fahrenkopf and Frau Fahrenkopf, played broadly on stage now by Michael Leigh Cook and Alena Acker. Many other redactions crop up to tighten Williams’ solo work. Able to open up the setting, Huston occasionally leaves the veranda for ogling Gardner’s water frolicking with Pedro and Pancho, no visual letdown. Oh, well, that’s how the collaborative arts sometimes go.

'The Night of the Iguana' review

6 / 10

Daly’s Shannon is competent, but his jittery gruffness doesn’t leave enough room for sympathy, and it’s not exactly crazed enough to insert a sense of exciting theatricality in the midst of the more human (and maybe more banal) crisis of faith and sanity. Lichty’s Hannah, in comparison, is soft, gentle, perhaps prudish. She is supposed to be tender where Shannon is prickly, serene where he is sweaty. But her dramatic dilemma — her loneliness and the way in which her clear-eyed belief in connection contrasts with Shannon’s failure of faith — feel a bit undercooked. Her performance is reminiscent of Mia Farrow in Woody Allen movies, with the timbre of Jane Fonda’s voice, but without the forcefulness. Between the pair, there isn’t enough thrust, even if it’s to get through the evening with one’s scruples or heart intact.

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How long has Tennessee Williams's The Night of the Iguana been running Off-Broadway?

Tennessee Williams's The Night of the Iguana opened at the The Pershing Square Signature Center [Irene Diamond Stage] on Sunday Dec 17, 2023 and has now been running for 2 months.

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