About the Show

Gina Gionfriddo’s razor-sharp dark comedy returns as Becky Shaw makes its ferociously funny Broadway debut.

In Becky Shaw, a well-intentioned blind date quickly unravels into a chaotic chain of emotional fallout, unexpected revelations, and shifting power dynamics. What begins as a simple setup soon exposes deeper tensions among a tight-knit group of friends and family, blurring the lines between loyalty, manipulation, and personal responsibility.

The play is written by Gina Gionfriddo, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist known for her incisive dialogue and complex character studies. Following its acclaimed Off-Broadway premiere at Second Stage, Becky Shaw now makes its Broadway debut.

Praised by The New York Times as “ferociously funny,” the play offers a sharp look at contemporary relationships, ethics, and emotional entanglement in the aftermath of a date gone spectacularly wrong.

Critic Reviews (15)

"The biggest audience reaction, at the performance I saw, was a huge, across-the-board laugh with a spark of shock in it"
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"Though 150 minutes worth of poison-dart dialogue is fun to watch, by the end of the show, I couldn't figure out what it was aiming for."
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"Becky Shaw is a romcom with teeth — and the unseen scene is when those teeth start getting bared, whether as smiles or threats or both."
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"In a moment when so much theater puts on kid gloves to handle its material and its audience, it can be bracing to have a play walk right up and slap you across the face."
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"As impressive as much of the cast is, Ehrenreich steals the show. What makes Max so arresting is that underneath his bullying and bluster is the wounded heart of a kicked puppy."
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"Becky Shaw touches something tender and doesn't stop there. Like its namesake's devious smile, it lingers."
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"It's Gina Gionfriddo's iron guts that make an incisive, observant, scathing, and hilarious play like Becky Shaw possible."
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"Gina Gionfriddo's glittering black diamond of a comedy, a bright light of the 2008-09 theatre season, returns, still brimming with scathingly unsentimental observations about class, dysfunctional families, and the advisability (or not) of honesty in personal relationships."
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