'Kyoto' Off Broadway Review: Global Warming Produces a Dramatic Deep Frost

'Kyoto' Off Broadway Review: Global Warming Produces a Dramatic Deep Frost

Whenever I see one of those polls on What’s Most Important, I never pick the economy, immigration, crime or even democracy. I always think climate change. In other words, I should be the prime theatergoer for “Kyoto,” the new play on why the United States failed to ratify the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse emissions. Also, Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson’s “Kyoto” was a big success in 2024 when presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company and Go…

The Premise of ‘Kyoto’ May Not Seem Enticing, but the Play Makes Policymaking Thrillingly Theatrical

Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson have provided a commanding, crackling script, and directors Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin oversee a superb cast and sustain a pulsing pace that will likely leave you riveted throughout its two acts.

Kyoto Review. The first global response to global warming.

By the end of “Kyoto,” a play about the effort it took to achieve the first international agreement to address the climate crisis, we come to understand  — perhaps too well – that it was a long, painstaking and frustrating process. The Kyoto Protocol, which 84 nations initially signed in Kyoto, Japan in 1997,  came after nearly a decade in which great world powers and tiny island nations alike argued endlessly with one another over priorities an…

KYOTO Playwrights Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson Selected for 2025 TIME100 Climate List

TIME has selected acclaimed KYOTO playwrights, Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson, for the 2025 TIME100 Climate list, recognizing the 100 most innovative leaders driving business climate action. KYOTO, an account of the 1997 climate negotiations that led to first legally binding international treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, is currently in performances at Lincoln Center Theater’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater as a co-production from the Royal S…