We also were there (see clip below) but this play didn't work for me at all. All the actors did very well but the script left me cold. Nothing added up to anything for me -- the whole far less than the sum of the parts. Lots of contrived exits as well. A situation, not a story, and it felt like a poor American attempt to do something like CLOUD 9. I just didn't like this script whatever.
The critical reception to this play also was mostly negative (not that this matters: but it's so rare to find myself on the side of the critical majority that I can't resist quoting from a few of them.)
The critical reception to this play also was mostly negative (not that this matters: but it's so rare to find myself on the side of the critical majority that I can't resist quoting from a few of them.)
The play becomes frustrating when she covers money, real estate, social mores of high society in the early 1900s, and the social conscience of the rich in the 21st Century all in the space of 2 hours and 15 minutes with intermission. The playwright goes from topic to topic in a disjointed manner and she does not spend enough time to get to the heart of the matter. --Richard Connema
Wendy Wasserstein had a great idea for a play, but what winds up on stage at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre of Lincoln Center is a disappointing, unfocused mess.
--Jacque LeSourd
I know the plays of Tom Stoppard, and Wendy Wasserstein, if I may say so, is no Tom Stoppard. The comparison wouldn't normally spring to mind--and it would be an unfair one--were it not for the fact that Ms. Wasserstein's Old Money, her new play about old and new money at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre, has borrowed uncomfortably from Arcadia, Mr. Stoppard's best play that was produced with such distinction at Lincoln Center five years ago. --John Heilpern
 clipped from rapsublog.blogspot.com
Last evening we saw Old Money at Profile Theatre. This is Profiles Theatre's season for Wendy Wasserstein's plays. We felt that this staged reading was the best of her plays that we have seen there this season with The Sisters Rosensweig a close second. The Sisters Rosensweig continues until April 22, and Old Money until April 18.
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Ya know, either plays, books, art, movies, music, etc., communicate to somebody on some level or they don't. You can analyze and categorize the "crap" out of every expression as the "experts/critics" do, but, give us a break--how about just enjoying dinner, theatre, good company with an exchange of ideas, and calling it a good time? That's for me.
I agree. Which means if you are NOT enjoying it, you should just leave, which I would have done at intermission except I wasn't alone and decided to be "polite." I was bored, bored, bored. That's not a good time.
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