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Updated October 27, 2008 - 9:48AM EST

Washington Post

In Two Revivals, Some Stars Are Brighter Than Others
It requires no leap of imagination to envision ferocious Jeremy Piven of "Entourage" fame in a play by David Mamet -- especially one drenched in filthy Tinseltown lucre. And yet, amid the toxic delights of the Broadway revival of "Speed-the-Plow," Piven is not merely summoning his inner ...
[also: All My Sons]

Time Out New York

Review: All My Sons
British director Simon McBurney delivers a fresh and revelatory take on Arthur Miller's postwar drama.

Updated October 22, 2008 - 8:46AM

Village Voice

All My Sons Gets Gimmicky, Not to Be Goes Flat, and Kindness Rides the Downbeat by Michael Feingold

New York Observer

McBurney’s Ego Upstages Miller, Lithgow, Wiest—Even Katie Holmes

New York Post

Liz Smith: Of 'Girls' and 'Sons'
...I went to the theater, and although the first-night crowd for "All My Sons" was short on proper dress and glamour, I did see...

Financial Times

All My Sons, Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, New York
Katie Holmes has not been cast merely for her physical charms, writes Brendan Lemon

Updated October 20, 2008

New York Post

Cindy Adams: 'Sons' actors shine, except 1

New York Magazine

Stephanie Zacharek on All My Sons

The New Yorker

Hilton Als: Simon McBurney takes on “All My Sons.”

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Updated October 19, 2008

Chicago Tribune

'All My Sons' falters; 'The Seagull' dazzles

Philadelphia Inquirer

'All My Sons' retains its postwar power

ny1

NY1 Theater Review: "All My Sons"

First Night Reviews

AmericanTheaterWeb

Review: All My Sons - A Haunting Play Speaks to Our Times

New York Times

Oedipus & Company
The baleful Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons” transforms its characters into archetypal puppets of destiny.

New York Daily News

Katie adds glamour to 'All My Sons'
Dziemianowicz: The curiosity about the Broadway revival of "All My Sons" has been boosted by Katie Holmes (who holds her own), but it's John Lithgow and Dianne Wiest who command your attention in this striking new production.

amNY New York City Theater Blog

Theater Review of All My Sons

Newsday

Review: 'All My Sons,' with Katie Holmes
There is a dizzying hallucinatory swirl to "All My Sons," the wrenching revival of Arthur Miller's 1947 drama that opened last night at the Schoenfeld Theatre. If that description seems out-of-sync with a playwright who held the stage with the certainty of tires on cement, well, imagine the torque of the ride.

New York Post

Not much to shout about
There's an awful lot of shouting these days at the Schoenfeld Theatre, where Arthur Miller's early melodrama "All My Sons"...

New York Journal News

Review: And Katie Holmes was here, too
The electrifying revival of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons," which opened last night at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, is the play to see on Broadway this season. It is an amazing piece of theater that will leave no one who sees it unchanged.

Hartford Courant

New York Stage Review: 'All My Sons'

Star-Ledger

Arthur Miller's 'All My Sons' opens on Broadway
Commencing with a raging thunderstorm, director Simon McBurney blows away the naturalistic dust from "All My Sons" and reveals Arthur Miller's drama to be as inexorable and timeless as Greek tragedy.

Bergen Record

'All My Sons' production has fresh look

Associated Press

A Grandiose 'All My Sons' Arrives on Broadway
It's not about Katie Holmes. Or even John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest or Patrick Wilson, for that matter

Bloomberg.com

Katie Holmes Adds Flirtiness, Rage to `All My Sons' Revival: John Simon
Four estimable actors headline the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's ``All My Sons'': John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest, Patrick Wilson and, in her stage debut, Katie Holmes, better known as Mrs. Tom Cruise. They all do well. If only that were enough.

Wall Street Journal

Miller's 'Sons,' Cruise's Wife
"All My Sons" is a windy production, in which Simon McBurney commits first-degree directorial malpractice. [also reviewed: 'To Be or Not to Be', 'Noises Off' in Cleveland]

USA Today

Katie Holmes' one-note debut in 'All My Sons' is a little off-key
Ever since word got out that Katie Holmes would appear in a revival of All My Sons (* * 1/2 out of four), the blogosphere has been buzzing....

Variety

Review: All My Sons
Pairing Arthur Miller's probing social realism with Brit director Simon McBurney's multidisciplinary experimental approach was a gamble, but the payoff in "All My Sons" is considerable.

Back Stage

All My Sons reviewed by David Sheward
Director Simon McBurney throws the kitchen-sink realism out of the window with a startlingly abstract production of Arthur Miller's 1947 All My Sons.

Chicago Tribune Theater Loop Blog

Katie Holmes bows to Broadway in 'All My Sons': A little less allegory, please, a little more Toledo

TheaterMania

Peter Filichia's Diary: All My Opinions
I don’t know if the current production of All My Sons will make history, but it sure makes histrionics.

Review: All My Sons
Simon McBurney's breathtakingly acted version of Arthur Miller's tragic play is a must-see event.

Talkin' Broadway

Review: All My Sons
An out-of-his-element director can kill a great play, but he really has to work at it. For his staging of Arthur Miller's searing post-wartime drama All My Sons at the Schoenfeld, Simon McBurney has relied almost exclusively on devices existing beyond the world of the text - and, in many cases, the theatre itself - but is unable to quench the blazes Miller's breakthrough work generates yet today. In fact, all McBurney proves with his needlessly busy yet blaringly comatose interpretation is that stoking or extinguishing the fires of anguish requires more than just a bulging bag of tricks. . .

nytheatre.com

Review: All My Sons

CurtainUp

Review: All My Sons
The story while a World War II period piece about the tragic consequences of the lapse from decency of an "ordinary" American businessman like Joe Keller still hits the emotional bulls eye.