Reviews: Critics Sound Off on Fiasco Theater's Pericles at Off-Broadway's Classic Stage Company | Playbill

Playbill Universe Reviews: Critics Sound Off on Fiasco Theater's Pericles at Off-Broadway's Classic Stage Company

Ben Steinfeld directs the Shakespeare classic.

Paco Tolson in Fiasco's Pericles Austin Ruffer

Fiasco Theater opened a new production of William Shakespeare's Pericles February 26 at Off-Broadway's Classic Stage Company, and the reviews are in. See what critics are saying below.

Directed by Fiasco Co-Artistic Director and Founder Ben Steinfeld, the cast includes Jessie Austrian, Noah Brody, Paul L. Coffey, Tony nominee Andy Grotelueschen, Devin E. Haqq, Steinfeld, Paco Tolson, Tatiana Wechsler, and Emily Young.

Pericles takes the Prince of Tyre on a Mediterranean adventure full of riddles, betrayals…and pirates—from confident leader to yearning lover to seeker of meaning.

Read the reviews below.

New York Magazine / Vulture (Sara Holdren)*

New York Stage Review (David Finkle)

New York Theatre Guide (Joe Dziemianowicz)

The New York Times (Alexis Soloski)*

Slant Magazine (Dan Rubins)

TheaterMania (Pete Hempstead)

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Playbill will continue to update this list as reviews come in.

Performances are scheduled to continue through March 24.

The production also features lighting design by Mextly Couzin and costume design by Ashley Rose Horton. Sarah Pencheff-Martin serves as the properties supervisor. Luner Eclipse is the production manager.

Visit ClassicStage.org.

 
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