IAN MCSHANE is dazzling in Harold Pinter's masterpiece. The fine cast also includes benchmark performances by the remarkable RAUL ESPARZA and EVE BEST, who is an absolute knockout. MICHAEL MCKEAN gives a beautifully calibrated, heartbreaking performance as the proper, dutiful Sam. And the relatively unknown GARETH SAXE and JAMES FRAIN are superb as the dopey, brawny Joey and the disdainful, uxorious Teddy."

- Ben Brantley,
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The marvelous Ian McShane not only exudes a compelling physical bravado, but handles Pinter's razor-sharp dialogue with the dexterity of a skilled surgeon."

- Michael Kuchwara,
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This slippery demon of a power play feels at least as brash and twice as unsettling as any fresh vivisection of what our pious times call family values."

- Linda Winer,
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There’s plenty to chew on about power, sex, morality and family, which Harold Pinter serves up with signature intelligence and mystery.”


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Beautifully directed by Daniel Sullivan and wonderfully acted, 'THE HOMECOMING' evokes an electric sense of sensual longing and provides lots of laughs. IAN MCSHANE is hilarious and scary at the same time as the patriarch trying to hold onto his power. And EVE BEST is the essence of quietly seething sensuality. Her uncrossing of her legs as she sits, fully clothed, may be the sexiest move on Broadway this year."

- Robert Feldberg,

Ian McShane is excellent as Max, the patriarch who wields a cane and a brutal tongue to compensate for his declining virility. But it would be unfair to single him out; this spiffy production is a credit to the whole company, which under Daniel Sullivan's shrewd direction, adds to what has been a banner year for ensemble acting on Broadway."
- Elysa Gardner,
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- Eric Grode,
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It’s difficult to imagine an all-over better cast, led by the marvelous Ian McShane’s ugly and embittered patriarch, Raul Esparza’s smoothly confident Lenny, James Frain's shiftily ambivalent Teddy and the wonderful Eve Best. This is the first cast to match the raw excitement of the play’s original stars."

- Clive Barnes,
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