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PRAISE FOR THE PLAYS OF LUCAS HNATH

A PUBLIC READING OF AN UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY ABOUT THE DEATH OF WALT DISNEY

“A blackly comic inversion of the public Disney persona, in the form of a stylized screenplay being read in an anonymous-looking corporate conference room … Walt would be doing cartoonish gyrations in his grave if he were to see how thoroughly Mr. Hnath (pronounced nayth) has subverted the popular image of Disney.”

—Charles Isherwood, The New York Times

“Minutes into the darkly humorous play it’s clear that for the famous man who made Mickey Mouse, movies and the Magic Kingdom, everything was about him. Always. Especially during his last days on earth.”

—Joe Dziemianowicz, New York Daily News

“A devastating portrait of a man for whom make-believe was more real than reality itself.”

—Elisabeth Vincentelli, The New York Post

“A blood-pumping and often hilarious evening of theater.”

—Zachary Stewart, TheaterMania.com

“Enjoyably weird and hermetic … Nothing that ever came out of the Magic Kingdom was ever this animated.”

—David Cote, Time Out New York

THE CHRISTIANS

“Mr. Hnath is quickly emerging as one of the brightest new voices of his generation. What’s fresh about his work is how it consistently combines formal invention with intellectual inquiry—both of which are often in short supply in contemporary American theatre.”

—Charles Isherwood, The New York Times

“The Christians is a white-knuckled drama about … a theological battle. But there are no clear winners or losers in Lucas Hnath’s deeply affecting new play.”

—Elisabeth Vincentelli, The New York Post

“For all its control on the page, The Christians is about the uncontrollable, which is to say, how we imagine what life will look like once we enter the everlasting.”

—Hilton Als, The New Yorker

“It’s so rare to see religious beliefs depicted onstage without condescension that Lucas Hnath’s new play becomes all the more intriguing.”

—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter

“Lucas Hnath’s soul-searching drama, The Christians, grabbed the eyeballs at the 2014 Humana Festival … the play’s religious dialectic offers enough substance to satisfy true believers.”

—Marilyn Stasio, Variety

RED SPEEDO

“A bright slip of a swimsuit seems a small garment on which to hang a knotty morality play, but the ingenious Lucas Hnath engineers this remarkable feat with Red Speedo, a taut, incisive drama.”

—Charles Isherwood, The New York Times

“Hnath’s swift, slippery play moves in Mametian lunges of rapid dialogue and desperate gambits.”

—Adam Feldman, Time Out New York

“Red Speedo is the latest addition to the increasingly substantial body of work by playwright Lucas Hnath. If you’re serious about the theater, you have to see his shows and read his plays and look forward to whatever is next with anticipation.

—Michael Giltz, The Huffington Post

“This latest effort similarly reflects the playwright’s keen aptitude for exploring hot-button themes.”

—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter