‘Dog Day Afternoon’ Is an Insult to an Al Pacino Classic – Review

Did Dog Day Afternoon Get Away With It?

Take it on its own terms, and Stephen Adly Guirgis’s stage reworking of Dog Day Afternoon, the great New York failed-heist movie, mostly succeeds.

‘Dog Day Afternoon’ Unleashes on Broadway With a Loud Contemporary Bark

Sidney Lumet’s beloved hostage drama gets a modern stage reboot courtesy of the stars of ‘The Bear.’

‘Dog Day Afternoon’ is an insult to an Al Pacino classic – Review

Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach star in the confounding and offensive “Dog Day Afternoon,” a misguided adaptation of Sidney Lumet’s 1975 movie.

‘Dog Day Afternoon’ Theater Review: Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach Lead a Disastrous Adaptation of a Cinema Classic

Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach star in a disastrously weak stage adaptation of the classic Sidney Lumet film 'Dog Day Afternoon.'

‘Dog Day Afternoon’ Broadway Review: Jon Bernthal Takes the Al Pacino Role in a Canny Piece of Stagecraft That Can’t Rival the Movie’s Haunting Power

As a piece of stagecraft, "Dog Day Afternoon," directed by Mauk Kaufman, does a canny job of translating the film’s action, keeping the flow taut and exciting. But it also does something that’s very Broadway. The movie had moments of discordant comedy, but Sidney Lumet staged it in his hair-trigger fluorescent vérité style. You felt like you were there, in that bank, with those beleaguered slovenly '70s people. On stage, the comedy gets ratchete…