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ADDITIONS - 11/13/08 10:02am EST

Time Out New York

Review: Saturn Returns
In Noah Haidle’s lightweight meditation on aging and memory, time doesn’t heal; it tears the flesh and leaves ugly scars

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ADDITIONS - 11/12/08 9:24am EST

Newsday

Reviews: Rabe's 'Streamers,' and 'Saturn Returns'

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New York Times

Three Ages of a Man Who’s Strutting and Fretting His Hour Upon the Stage
A troubled, solitary man nearing the end of his life shares a living room with the ghosts from his past in “Saturn Returns,” a wintry new play by Noah Haidle that opened on Monday night.

New York Daily News

A sorrowful life in the past lane
It's a cruel irony of life - an occasion that should be a joyous beginning instead turns out to be an infinitely sad ending and a source of nonstop ache.

Associated Press

The past haunts the present in 'Saturn Returns' as it opens in New York

Bloomberg.com

One-Act `Saturn Returns' Has Star's Life Unfold in Three Parts: John Simon
Some bad plays are fun, the way B- movies are, or used to be. Noah Haidle's B-play, ``Saturn Returns,'' however, has the distinction of being the dullest, most pointless piece the venerable Lincoln Center Theater has foisted on us in a very long time.

Variety

Review: Saturn Returns
...this is an intimate reflection on grief and loneliness that keeps its sentimentality in check via prickly character shadings. But despite Nicholas Martin's graceful staging, the play is too contrived to be fully affecting.

Back Stage

Saturn Returns reviewed by David Sheward
While the work is somewhat slight and overly tricky, it does display solid characterization and a moving situation.The short play comes across as too much like a writing exercise.

TheaterMania

Review: Saturn Returns
Noah Haidle's wistful memory play depicting one man at three stages of his life gets a first-rate production.

Talkin' Broadway

Review: Saturn Returns
“I can’t live without you.” Usually, when a man utters these words, he doesn’t really mean them. Oh, he may believe he does, but deep down he knows that if love truly is forever, then life will always find a way to continue until it must naturally stop. And most of Noah Naidle’s sweet but underdeveloped new play Saturn Returns, at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center, seems to be about nothing more than proving that anxiously exaggerated statement. . .