Hugh Jackman Proves the Perfect Choice To Lead a New Off-Broadway Offering, ‘Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes’

Hugh Jackman Proves the Perfect Choice To Lead a New Off-Broadway Offering, ‘Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes’

Jackman expertly manages the situation when, several minutes into the one-act play, it’s plain that something inappropriate is going to happen and that his character is going to find a way to avoid accountability.

Review Roundup: Ella Beatty and Hugh Jackman Star In SEXUAL MISCONDUCT OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES

Hugh Jackman and Ella Beatty star in Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes at Audible Theater. The US premiere of award-winning playwright Hannah Moscovitch’s Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes takes us down the most slippery of slopes, keeping audiences questioning perspective throughout. Read the reviews! Jesse Green, The New York Times: For an audience no less than an individual, the steep slope of powerful attraction is difficult to n…

Review: Hugh Jackman in a Twisty Tale of ‘Sexual Misconduct’

But Jackman goes well beyond the brief. On the night I attended, when a woman in Row B started coughing loudly, it was clear that the man who’d played the exuberant, audience-coddling Allen — Garland’s son-in-law — was not about to leave her uncared-for. Ad libbing, he offered her a bottle of water — and was clearly ready to deliver it in person. She said no, but I was surprised that the 400 other theatergoers didn’t start hacking immediately. H…

Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes Review. Hugh Jackman launches his company

A sexual affair between Hugh Jackman as a married middle aged professor and Ella Beatty as his 19-year-old student? On its surface, “Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes” tells a familiar story with an overblown title and an underwritten female character. The two-hander by Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch felt an odd choice for a first production by Together., the new theater company by Jackman and Sonia Friedman, given that their aim, a…