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60 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 26 Critics What's this?

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8.8 out of 10

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  • Summary: Set in turn of the century New York, Tuccio (Turturro) is the resident playwright of the New York City repertory company who offers his new challenging play "Illuminata" to the company's owners who initially reject it. Several on and offstage romances begin among the shows diva, a harsh critic, and other actors and theatre types.… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 26
  3. Negative: 1 out of 26
  1. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    90
    A masterful accomplishment...teems with its own sense of life, crackles with daring, walks the tightrope between satire and pathos with a rare assuredness.
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Ethan Alter
    60
    For all its ambitions, Illuminata sheds only murky light on what separates theater from life.
  3. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: William Arnold
    25
    An incomprehensible mess -- so boring and numbingly unworkable that it's hard to imagine what he could have been thinking.

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