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‘Cult Of Love’ Broadway Review: Merry Christmas, Like It Or Not
Deadline's review of the new Broadway play 'Cult of Love,' starring Zachary Quinto, Mare Winningham and David Rasche.
A Second Stage Theater production steered like a fast-moving sleigh by director Trip Cullman, Cult Of Love boasts an excellent cast (headed by Zachary Quinto, Mare Winningham, David Rasche and, in an impressive Broadway debut, Star Wars: The Acolyte ‘s Rebecca Henderson) that pulls off a familiar scenario with unexpected freshness. Mom Ginny chooses to believe that Evie isn’t really gay, despite all evidence to the contrary, but the overt homophobia is left to youngest Dahl daughter Diana (Shailene Woodley) and her preacher husband James (Christopher Lowell), neither of whom can resist talk of hellfire and damnation couched in loving concern. Headland, the Russian Doll co-creator and Star Wars: The Acolyte creator making her Broadway debut with Cult Of Love, is adept at keeping the dialogue crisp, funny and fast-moving, even if the pile-up of personalities, crises, conflicts and very hard feelings grows schematic and a bit predictable.
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