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PHOTOS: Opening
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The acting is superb, especially Tony Award-winner Shuler Hensley, who plays Jane's new boyfriend, Tim Andrews. Tim is an actor and seemingly an outsider watching the family discuss their past, present and future. He also drives the most honest conversation while being the one who is censoring himself the most. Summer Moore, Associated Press What glorious, ensemble performances! ... As that lover, Tim, Shuler Hensley neatly portrays the somewhat timid outsider who, as also a younger actor, is eager for a respected older colleague’s even impaired thespian savvy. John Simon, Bloomberg Hensley’s non-interfering indifference, and Devries’s powerful presentation of Benjamin struggling to find himself within everyone else are every bit as absorbing, and the relationships each character forms with the others are sumptuous in both their spoken and implicit complexities. Matthew Murray, TalkinBroadway The cast is first-rate. Charles Isherwood, New York Times The current cast offers a chance to see six top of the line actors making this a dinner party worth attending. Elyse Sommer, Curtain Up Nelson, who directs his play, evokes the Apples in conversation that sounds as natural as breathing. And the cast couldn't be better. Joe Dziemianowicz, NY Daily News Nelson has maximized its potential by directing six actors who couldn't be better. DeVries, Hensley, Plunkett, Robins, Sanders, and Smith-Cameron let the dramatic moments ebb and flow without ever overplaying their hands. As required, they simply talk, listen, and touch. It's a commendable instance where the acting family that plays together earns praise together. David Finkle, Theatermania As director, Nelson elicits crackling performances from his sterling ensemble of actors. Jay O. Sanders, J. Smith-Cameron, Laila Robins, Jon DeVries, and Shuler Hensley bring depth and shading to their characters, even when their dialogue veers into debate. Clifford Lee Johnson, Backstage The actors are superb veteran performers, with extensive Broadway and off-Broadway credits, and their triumph here is seeming not to be actors. With no makeup, wearing workaday clothes, and casually groomed, they look and talk and behave just like us when no one is looking. And that effect is remarkable. Robert Feldberg, NorthJersey.com
LINKS: Shuler Hensley and Maryann Plunkett Star in That Hopey Changey Thing starting Oct. 26
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