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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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.

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.

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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.

Other Productions of Tennessee Williams's The Night of the Iguana

1961	Broadway	Broadway
1976	Broadway	Broadway
1988	Broadway	Broadway
1996	Broadway	Broadway
2017	Regional (US)	American Repertory Theater Regional Production Regional (US)
2019	West End	West End Revival West End
2023	Off-Broadway	Off-Broadway Revival Production Off-Broadway

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