Walnut Street Theatre's An Ideal Husband Tickets

Its a great play and it was a Great production! Excellently performed. The costumes were terrific as well.

The actors are fantastic. The setting is very nice to look at. The play is very closely based on Oscar Wild work and it is entertaining and interesting. Always modern. A wonderful way to spend an evening in Philadelphia!

Boring, stale forgettable waste of time. Outdated and did I mention boring ? The worst of all time visits to the Walnut. Stay away.....unless you need nap time !!!

An Ideal Husband is an example of British Drawing Room Humor. The first act was difficult to keep awake through. The English accents spoken at an incredibly fast clip caused all 10 people in our Box to take turns dozing off to sleep. As fast as the dialogue was, the plot development was slow. It was hard to get involved in the story-line. It began to come together just before the end of the first act. Act 2 was much better as there was now some foundation laid and the audience could relate to the situations. It ended with a positive flair but the general impression was already set.

We thoroughly enjoyed the show. It took a little time to get used to the accents. The actors were excellent, although some of the females did not project well enough and we (along with many people sitting near us in the front of the mezzanine) had difficult hearing what was said. Overall, it was well worth seeing.

The first two acts dragged. The intensity of the performances did not match the wit of Oscar Wilde. There were missed cues and bad timing in the repartee. The British accents, especially among the female actors, were poorly done. The point of Wilde is the intense human passion that underlies the Victorian veneer, and that passion never emerged in this stiff performance.

I found the acting fairly stiff. The accents were not well done and in some cases it seemed as though volume would make up for poor diction. The staging and set design was very attractive. In addition to an electronic device notice there should be a notice to cease conversation and eating.

Overall it was a wonderful show that was witty and fun. The first two acts were a little slow but they set the stage for the comedy that hits you hard and fast the second the curtain goes up in the 3rd act.

The first act is a little long, but the second act is really excellent.

We liked it. It was funny in a subtle sort of way....British humor. We liked the props. Didn't much like the fact that they had to change the scenery with the curtain up but understand why. If they didn't do it that way they would have had to keep the curtain down too long. The actors voices were strong and carried well we could easily hear everything that was said. The performance was very good.