What Are the Reviews for Kyoto Off-Broadway?

The Verdict

Stephen Kunken leads Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson’s Olivier-nominated play at Lincoln Center Theater.

Company of Kyoto
Emilio Madrid

Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson’s Kyoto officially opened its U.S. premiere at Lincoln Center Theater’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Off-Broadway November 3, and the reviews are in! Scroll down to see what critics are saying.

The work, which comes stateside after an Olivier-nominated U.K. premiere via Royal Shakespeare Company and Good Chance, is directed by Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin. Opening night is November 3, and performances continue through November 30.

Kyoto is set in December 1997 at the Kyoto Conference Centre. The political thriller dramatizes the moment all nations tried to set aside their differences for the sake of the earth.

Stephen Kunken and Jorge Bosch are reprising their performances from the U.K. premiere, Kunken as American lawyer and ex-government strategist Don Pearlman, and Bosch as Argentinian lawyer and conference leader Raul Estrada-Oyuela. Bosch was nominated for an Olivier for his U.K. performance.

Read the reviews below.

Culture Sauce (Thom Geier)

DC Theater Arts (Deb Miller)

Exeunt NYC (Carol Rocamora)

New York Theater (Jonathan Mandell)

The New York Times (Laura Collins-Hughes)*

New York Stage Review (Michael Sommers)

New York Stage Review (Frank Scheck)

TheaterMania (Zachary Stewart)

The Wrap (Robert Hofler)*

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Playbill will continue to update this list as reviews come in.

They’re joined in the cast by Peter Bradbury as climate change skeptic Fred Singer, Kate Burton as USA, Feodor Chin as China, Erin Darke as Germany, Natalie Gold as Shirley, Daniel Jenkins as Gore/Bolin/Santer/Observer, Dariush Kashani as Saudi Arabia, Rob Narita as Japan, Imani Jade Powers as Secretariat, Ferdy Roberts reprising his role as U.K./Prescott/Houghton, Roslyn Ruff as Tanzania, and Taiana Tully as Kiribati. Offstage understudies include Odera Adimorah, Zoe Cipres, Luis Carlos de La Lombana, and Paul Juhn. Casting is by Jim Carnahan and Alexandre Bleau.

The production features set design by Miriam Buether, costume design by Natalie Pryce, lighting design by Aideen Malone, sound design by Christopher Reid, video design by Akhila Krishnan, original music by Paul Englishby, stage management by Diana DiVita, and associate direction by Ed Burnside. Julia Horan was the original U.K. casting director, and Gemma Stockwood is the dramaturg.

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