Written by Keith Huff
Directed by John Crowley
Synopsis: A Steady Rain is a new American play starring Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig that tells the story of two Chicago cops who are lifelong friends and their differing accounts of a few harrowing days that changed their lives forever.
NEW YORK TIMES:
"Big names, little show. “A Steady Rain,” which opened on Tuesday night at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater, is probably best regarded as a small, wobbly pedestal on which two gods of the screen may stand in order to be worshiped."
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NEW YORK POST:
"A Steady Rain" is a meat-and-potatoes play served on a sil ver platter."
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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS:
"But Chicago writer Keith Huff's play is a stark and modest work that's all talk and no action. It keeps you at arm's length.
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THEATERMANIA:
"Using only their craft (and a fair amount of gesticulating), Jackman and Craig must command a stage that designer Scott Pask keeps minimally furnished, with two chairs, two hanging interrogation-room lighting fixtures, and fleeting images of Chicago buildings in the background. They definitely do so."
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VARIETY:
"But playwright Keith Huff recharges those familiar elements by approaching events usually outlined in action terms with the probing eye of a forensics investigator and psych profiler combined. Pair that with John Crowley's taut production, not to mention actors with the charisma and command of Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman, and you get riveting theater."
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NY1:
"Playwright Keith Huff must have studied an awful lot of police dramas on TV, because "A Steady Rain" could easily have been an episode from one of them. And while he does a fine job loading up the play with melodramatic plot twists and gritty violence, it's hard to believe that this two-hander would have made it this far without the star power of Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman."
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BACKSTAGE:
"Though its plot sounds like one you might hear at a Hollywood pitch meeting, Keith Huff's "A Steady Rain" offers one of the most powerful theatrical experiences in many seasons. This is mainly due to John Crowley's tight direction and the masterful performances of a pair of movie hunks best known for their adventure capers. Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman prove they are much more than James Bond and Wolverine in this heavyweight smackdown."
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NEW YORK MAGAZINE:
"We’re just beginning to enjoy these guys, as they bicker over conspicuous consumption and the relative prestige of being “a Nielsen family,” when blammo!, the play lurches deep into gothic Dick Wolf territory. All the clichéd conundrums (is he who hunts monsters himself a monster?) and abominations (baby in a trash bag!) of your standard TV cop drama arrive like commercial breaks. All that’s missing are the Law & Order chung-chungs"
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