Martha Wade Steketee

“This seamless transfer from Chelsea to Broadway gives us the season’s first dose of potent theatrical magic.”

“McTeer gives a great performance.”

“Yet this is an odd play to revive without adaptations, either in the text or in the staging.”

“When it works (and the shoes sequence delivers like gangbusters) this musical brings down the house.”

“Overall, Pretty Woman is storytelling detritus, and never the right scale for the stage.”

“Washington’s magnetism cannot force us to feel that feeling, and if it doesn’t exactly leave us ice cold, it’s no more satisfying than watery gin.”

“Moments are evoked, but ultimately this is a young man’s view of an older woman’s story.”

“Director Joe Mantello has crafted an exquisite waltz of a revival of Edward Albee's 1994. Pulitzer Prize-winning Three Tall Women.”