Hugh Jackman in NEW BORN Downtown — An Astonishingly Personal Performance...
Did anyone else catch this show? It did just open. But it's three monologues, and they're all good -- yet Hugh Jackman's is incredible and was, to me, the most wildly personal (at least, I thought it was). I know this sub has conflicting feelings on him but he's essentially playing a tree trimmer guy who walks us through how the dissolution of his marriage came to be, in his native Australian accent no less! I sort of was shocked at how much the material seemed to sort of mirror his personal life details. And I can't be alone in thinking this; NYTimes critic Laura Collins-Hughes agrees with me and just said it's "one of the deftest, most extraordinary performances in New York." You gotta catch it if you can, would be curious what people think