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Helen Hunt on what drew her to the Goodman Theater's production of 'Betrayal'

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Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe winner Helen Hunt is in Chicago to star in the Harold Pinter drama “Betrayal" at the Goodman Theater.    The former "Mad About You” and “As Good As It Gets" star is one of three in this cast that,  in reverse time,  tells the story of husbands, wives,  friends and lovers, who have some secrets about each other.  Tony winner, Robert Sean Leonard and Tony nominee Jahn Barford co-star.  Dean Richards spoke to Helen Hunt…

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Chicago Sun TimesChicago Sun Times

Star power elevates 'Betrayal' production that lacks Pinter's bite

The Goodman Theater's star-cast production of Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal” starts off with an exciting crispness.We meet Brits Emma (Helen Hunt) and Jerry (Robert Sean Leonard) at a London pub. They catch up about their families. They reminisce, fondly but gingerly, about their long, passionate affair that ended two years earlier. Deep affection lingers, evident just beneath the surface in Pinter’s famously ripe pauses. The expert exposition turns…

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Chicago TribuneChicago Tribune

Review: ‘Betrayal’ at the Goodman offers the melancholy of age instead of seduction

In the last scene of Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal,” a masterful 1978 play that charts an extramarital affair in reverse chronology, a woman named Emma is successfully seduced upstairs at a party in her home by Jerry, her husband Robert’s closest friend and thus the best man at Emma’s own recent nuptials. Drunk, Jerry first lewdly prattles on how he should have “had” here in her “white” wedding dress before her wedding and then he starts declaring h…

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Dean reviews Goodman Theater's 'Betrayal'

The Harold Pinter drama “Betrayal" is now playing at Chicago's Goodman Theater.    Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe winner Helen Hunt is one of three in this cast that, in reverse time, tells the story of husbands, wives, friends and lovers, who have some secrets about each other.     More: Helen Hunt on what drew her to the Goodman Theater’s production of ‘Betrayal’ Tony winner, Robert Sean Leonard and Tony nominee Jahn Barford co-star.   Dea…

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‘Betrayal’ review: Goodman Theatre production lacks the fearsome bite that Pinter commands

The Goodman Theater’s star-cast production of Harold Pinter’s “Betrayal” starts off with an exciting crispness. We meet Brits Emma (Helen Hunt) and Jerry (Robert Sean Leonard) at a London pub. They catch up about their families. They reminisce, fondly but gingerly, about their long, passionate affair that ended two years earlier. Deep affection lingers, evident just beneath the surface in Pinter’s famously ripe pauses. The expert exposition turn…

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WGN 9 broke the news in Chicago, United States on Tuesday, February 18, 2025.
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