Overview
- Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival, which opened Sunday at the Todd Haimes Theatre, runs through June 7 in a limited engagement.
- Rose Byrne and Tony winner Kelli O’Hara headline Scott Ellis’s staging, compressed into 90 minutes without intermission with additional material by Claudia Shear.
- Early reviews praise the duo’s pratfalls and boozy dinner hijinks, with several critics also calling out rushed pacing and thin dramatic stakes.
- Mark Consuelos makes a late-arriving Broadway debut in the brief role of Maurice, the former lover who sets the plot in motion.
- Noël Coward’s 1925 comedy, once eyed by censors for frank talk of premarital sex and infidelity, returns to Broadway for the first time in 70 years.