That's the question I fielded most often about the new Broadway adaptation of the 1975 movie "Dog Day Afternoon." It isn't"and it's tempting to add:Â ...
Step back into the sweltering summer of 1972, New York City"a time when the Vietnam War looms large, Watergate headlines flood the news, and one man's desperate act captivates the nation. Em…
Oddly, it is during that act one closer, when Sonny rallies the audience into chanting the film's famous "Attica!" cry, that the production feels most itself. It's essentially Disney for Dad…
Guirgis and director Rupert Goold have certainly leaned hard into the funny aspects of the plot"too hard. Now, this ultimately tragic story of two desperate bunglers comes off as a sitcom wi…
Not all the well-chosen Brenda Abbandandolo costumes and David Bowie songs in the world can disguise this production's flaws. Guirgis has written plays that capture the spirit of New York Ci…
What if "Dog Day Afternoon" was actually a poor man's attempt at "The Carol Burnett Show"? That seems to be the tonally incoherent concept behind Rupert Goold's new screen-to-stage productio…
Dog Day Afternoon has officially arrived on Broadway at the August Wilson Theatre. Starring Emmy Award Winners Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, the new play is written by Pulitzer Prize …
★★★☆☆ Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bacharach star in Stephen Adly Guirgis' stage adaptation of the classic 1975 film.
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★★★☆☆ Emmy winners Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach make impressive Broadway debuts in a lukewarm stage adaptation
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The weird show that opened Monday night has contorted "Dog Day Afternoon" into something altogether unfamiliar: a stress-free series of drama-deflating punch lines that add up to little…
As a piece of stagecraft, "Dog Day Afternoon," directed by Mauk Kaufman, does a canny job of translating the film's action, keeping the flow taut and exciting. But it also does something tha…
In his Broadway debut, Jon Bernthal struts and frets in a serviceable facsimile of Al Pacino in the new stage adaptation of Dog Day Afternoon " but the new production joins a recent list of …
Theatrely's Broadway review of Dog Day Afternoon by Stephen Adly Guirguis and directed by Rupert Goold, starring Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach at the August Wilson Theatre in New York …
Why have Warner Bros. with 42 other producers financed a new Broadway play about a botched, two-bit bank robbery in Brooklyn half a century ago?  The answer is obvious to me: It's the …
Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach walk their opening night red carpet for their Broadway debuts in DOG DAY AFTERNOON.
The company of the Broadway thriller celebrates their opening night …
Dog Day Afternoon has officially arrived on Broadway at the August Wilson Theatre. Starring Emmy Award Winners Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach ...
Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach walk their opening night red carpet for their Broadway debuts in DOG DAY AFTERNOON.
The company of the Broadway thriller celebrates their opening night …
