Seventeen years after being nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, Gina Gionfriddo’s dark, sometimes giddy comedy Becky Shaw finally arrives on Broadway, and noting that it was worth the wait is an understatement none of its brutally honest anti-heroes would make. And if the nearly two-decades-in-the-making arrival meant we had to wait for this excellent cast to come together, all the better.
Directed by Trip Cullman with an unerring aim for the comic jugular and a perfect feel for the foreboding, Becky Sharp stars Alden Ehrenreich (Weapons) and Patrick Ball (The Pitt), both making their Broadway debuts, Madeline Brewer (You), Linda Emond (Death of a Salesman, The Gilded Age) and Lauren Patten (Jagged Little Pill). Loosely inspired by Thackeray’s Vanity Fair, Gionfriddo’s play is needle-sharp in its comic pokings and emotional proddings of people who wouldn’t recognize their own motivations if their lives depended on it. And maybe their lives, or
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