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Review: A Man for All Seasons

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New York Magazine

Scott Brown on A Man for All Seasons

The New Yorker

John Lahr: Martyrdom and marriage onstage.

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NY1 Theater Review: "A Man for All Seasons"

Time Out NY

Review: A Man for All Seasons
Roundabout Theatre Company digs Robert Bolt’s 1960 historical drama out of the mothballs.

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New York Times

Martyr Me a Little (the Perils of Thomas)
Even Frank Langella, an actor who can be counted on to put the pepper in mashed-potato parts, doesn’t find much variety in the monolithic goodness of the title character of “A Man for All Seasons.”

New York Daily News

Frank Langella is the 'Man for All Seasons'
After 45 years, the saga of Sir Thomas More is back on Broadway in a "A Man for All Seasons," starring Frank Langella. While it's always exciting seeing the triple Tony winner onstage, this parched Roundabout revival all too seldom ignites.

amNY

'A Man for All Seasons' falls flat
Decapitation: it's the fad of the fall of Broadway! Just as Sydney Carton mounts the guillotine in "A Tale of Two Cities," Sir Thomas More is similarly led up the stairs to meet the axeman. But as it turns out, losing your head is not the equivalent of good theater.

Newsday

Review: 'A Man for All Seasons'
He is big. It's the plays that got small. If America had a national repertory theater, Frank Langella would be luxuriating now in the official ranks of theater royalty. ...

New York Post

Man star shines, rest need seasoning
It's easy to see why Frank Langella chose "A Man for All Seasons" for his return to the stage after "Frost/Nixon."...

New York Journal-News

Delicious, stately and 'for all seasons'
Robert Bolt's "A Man for All Seasons," with the grand and wonderful Frank Langella as Sir Thomas More, is like a big, juicy dinner from the days before anybody worried about fat or knew about cholesterol...

New York Observer

The Seagull Soars, Lofted by Sarsgaard, Scott Thomas

Hartford Courant

Langella Powerful In Still-Resonant But Turgid 'Man For All Seasons'

Star-Ledger

Langella is a blessing as the saint-scholar of 'Man for All Seasons'

Bergen Record

Review: "A Man for All Seasons"

Associated Press

Frank Langella stars in a reverential ‘Seasons‘

Reuters

Frank Langella the right "Man" for tepid revival

USA Today

Apt time for themes of 'Man for All Seasons'
The flexibility and limits of executive power in our government have been the focus of intense debate in recent years, so it seems as good...

Bloomberg.com

Booming Langella, in `Man for All Seasons,' Makes Less of More: John Simon
"A Man for All Seasons'' is Robert Bolt's 1960 play, equal parts history and hagiography, about Sir Thomas More, the 16th-century author, lawyer and politician who died for his religious beliefs. The Broadway revival that opened last night stars Frank Langella in a bravura performance that glorifies Langella as much as More. The Roundabout Theatre Company production, though wayward, is at least good enough for one season.

Variety

Review: A Man for All Seasons
...The 1961 drama about the martyrdom of the chancellor of England under Henry VIII is not without windy preachiness. But the Roundabout staging becomes more gripping as it proceeds, driven by a performance from Frank Langella as measured and naturalistic as it is majestic.

Back Stage

A Man for All Seasons reviewed by David Sheward
A fiery trial scene is always good for picking up an otherwise slow evening, and the climactic tribunal in this mixed revival of A Man for All Seasons is certainly a corker.

TheaterMania

Review: A Man for All Seasons
Frank Langella could easily earn his fourth Tony Award for his consummate portrayal of Sir Thomas More in Doug Hughes' sturdy revival of Robert Bolt's 1961 drama.

Talkin' Broadway

Review: A Manfor All Seasons
Can a radiant star compensate for a swelling black hole? If the star in question is Frank Langella, the answer is almost, even when he's up against the destructive gravitational pull present - or, perhaps more accurately, absent - in the Roundabout's new revival of Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons at the American Airlines. . .

CurtainUp

Review: A Man For All Seasons
It is the subtle strokes of humor in Robert Bolt's text that Frank Langella delivers with an aplomb that is uniquely his. Moreover, the humor is achieved without ever compromising Thomas More's spirit . . .

Washington Post

On Broadway, A 'Seagull' Carried On Strong Wings
To see in succession the new Broadway revivals of "A Man for All Seasons" and "The Seagull" is to navigate between poles ...

Philadelphia Inquirer

On Broadway, Langella truly is 'A Man for All Seasons'
Frank Langella's shift from Richard Nixon (he won a 2007 Tony for Frost/Nixon) to Thomas More, the man Samuel Johnson called "the person of greatest virtue these islands ever produced" is quite a demonstration of theatrical as well as ...