• 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
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 26
  2. Negative: 1 out of 26
  1. 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. Reviewed by: Ethan Alter
    60
    For all its ambitions, Illuminata sheds only murky light on what separates theater from life.
  3. An incomprehensible mess -- so boring and numbingly unworkable that it's hard to imagine what he could have been thinking.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4

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