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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Cold-Blooded Tennessee Williams: The Night of the Iguana

6 / 10

Mann’s production does best when, in the third act, Shannon and Hannah spend a dark night of the soul together sipping poppy tea after he’s had a breakdown. She describes her few brief and lonely sexual encounters with men, and he opens up more fully about his sense of spiritual abandonment. They also talk a lot, yes, about that trapped iguana. In the blue night light, surrounded by the rusted metal and creaky wood of Beowulf Borritt’s set, there’s an air of mutual confession and healing—two burnouts finding some kind of peace in the ashes. But where’s the immolation that got them there? There are two long acts before you hit that moment, and they are tough, slow going without a flame.

Review: This ‘Night of the Iguana’ Is Williams Without the Excess

4 / 10

While not his most elegant work, Tennessee Williams’s “The Night of the Iguana,” about a group of lost souls at a coastal hotel in 1940s Mexico, is not without its misty pleasures. Even as his characters stumble tragically in search of meaning, their convictions carry the sharp-tongued certainty of soap opera idols. But a new revival from La Femme Theater at the Signature Center mires itself too deeply in its characters’ confusions to let the edges of his language shine. It’s an issue of confidence, with Emily Mann directing her cast away from Williams’s assured dialogue and toward their characters’ flailing. And this play, with a defrocked minister who now leads Baptist church ladies on unreliable bus tours at its center, already has plenty of flailing

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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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