Linda Vista

Sep 19, 2019 - Nov 10, 2019

Running time: 2:40

PLAYING @

Helen Hayes Theater
240 W 44th St
New York, NY 10036

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PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
By Bus: M42

By Subway: 1,2,3,7,S,A,C,E,N,R,Q,W to 42nd St./Times square

Show Description:

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Director

Dexter Bullard

Written By

Tracy Letts

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Listed at TKTS:

Rarely

FULL-PRICE TICKETS

$79.00 - $149.00

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ADDITIONAL INFO

Audience Advisory
Performance contains adult situations and full frontal nudity.

Age Guidance: 16

Show Notes
1 Intermission

ACCESSIBILITY INFO

Wheelchairs
Accessible seating in both Orchestra & Mezzanine

Seating
Orchestra on ground level. Seats 589.

Elevator\Escalator
Full-service/accessible elevator

Parking
Valet parking garages: 1st garage: South side of 44th St. between 6th & 7th Aves. Vertical clearance: 105". 2nd garage: East of Shubert Alley, on north side of 44th St. between Broadway & 8th Ave. No vans.

Curb Ramps
(2.5" lip) NW corner of 44th & Broadway; (2.5" lip) SE corner of 44th St. & Broadway; SW corner of 44th St. & Broadway.

Entrance
ADA-accessible building entrance at Stage Door. Handicap ramps in the lower lobby,

Box Office
Outer lobby, ground level. ADA access via the Stage Door.

Restroom
Accessible/unisex bathrooms/stalls in the lower lobby and at the mezzanine level

Water Fountain
Lower Level directly across from the elevator

Telephone
None on premises

Assisted Listening System
LOOP system in the auditorium, headsets available. Driver’s license or ID with printed address required as a deposit. Not available in the first 3 rows of the Orchestra.

VIDEOS

REVIEWS

A sad romantic comedy sounds like a contradiction in terms, but it’s an apt-enough description of “Linda Vista,” a slight but funny and quietly affecting play from Tracy Letts CONTINUE READING THE BROADWAY NEWS REVIEW

Tracy Letts, the profusely gifted playwright who also happens to be a brilliant actor, or vice versa, is working in an elevated sitcom mode as well as a revealing personal vein in Linda Vista. The self-inflicted woes of a middle-aged white man, victim of his own inebriating cocktail of testosterone and narcissism, might seem a tone-deaf subject for character study in our current moment of masculinity vivisected and reconstructed. But don't let the slick barrage of one-liners deceive you into thinking there's no room here for bruising self-examination and perhaps even tentative growth. CONTINUE READING THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER REVIEW

For all its easygoing pace and humor, Linda Vista goes to some truly dark places. The challenge here is to show how Wheeler’s corrosive charm grows on people, how he wears them down with his languid, often entertaining negativity, while also revealing the toxicity and sense of entitlement that runs beneath his persona. In the end, he’s just another jerk who expects the world to come to him, and leaves devastation in his wake. But that also makes him relatable; we’ve all known our share of Wheelers, and most of us have probably been some variation of him at various points in our lives. CONTINUE READING THE VULTURE REVIEW