A Thousand Clowns | Critical Overview
A Thousand Clowns was almost universally praised when it opened on Broadway in 1962. John McClain of Journal American called it ‘‘Merely the best comedy of this season,’’ and Howard Taubman of the New York Times found the play ‘‘sunny and wistful, sensible and demented, and above all, unfailingly amusing.’’ Some critics commented that the plot was a bit thin and predictable, but agreed that the play as whole was entertaining. John McCarten observed in the New Yorker that Gardner is
garrulous, repetitive, and undisciplined,...
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