‘All In: Comedy About Love’ Review: Stars Align on Broadway for Offbeat Tales of Love Connections
variety.comFrank Rizzo There’s a cozy ease that permeates “All In,” in which a rotating cast of celebs narrates, with both flourish and offhandedness, the humorous and offbeat essays of The New Yorker writer Simon Rich.
It’s the kind of comic comfort that easily fits into the holiday period but also into a Broadway season that is especially welcoming to laughter.
But “All In” brings a different kind of comedy to the stage, a gentler kind of wit, packaged at a modest length and in a minimalist form, though elegantly staged by Alex Timbers and designed by a theatrical A-team: David Korins (sets), Jake DeGroot (lights), Peter Hylenski (sound), and Jennifer Moeller (costumes), among them.
Lucy Mackinnon provides the video design featuring Emily Flake’s whimsical drawings. Think of it all as a hipster “Love Letters” in a loft setting: quirky, absurdist, sometimes rude but never crude (well, maybe the humping dog bit).
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