The production made its New York stage debut on Broadway presented by the Manhattan Theatre Club and directed by Kwei-Armah with Bettany and Pope reprising their roles at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater with previews beginning on November 29, 2022, and an opening night on December 18.
[2] Critical reception for the play was mixed, with praise mostly being focused on the leading performance of Bettany and Pope as Warhol and Basquiat respectively.
[4] The critic Arifa Akbar of The Guardian praised the performances writing, "Bettany and Pope do so much more than merely ventriloquising their celebrity parts.
Bettany captures Warhol's tics – his gawkiness and gormless stares with a deadpan streak of cynicism...Pope gives us a seductive, childlike free spirit in his Basquiat".
[5] The Evening Standard's critic, Nick Curtis, praised the performances describing them as "devastating", "triumphant" and "gorgeous", adding, "McCarten...gives them plenty of big themes – art, commerce, identity, faith, death – to chew on.