"[ Hillary and Clinton ] is asking us to see the world through the eyes of a woman who ostensibly has all the right stuff to be president and yet is never allowed to win." --Ben Brantley, New York Times "In many ways, Hillary and Clinton is about public and private selves, and the difficulty that Hillary has faced in uniting them to perform herself as a person.The play, in effect, is a fantasy of closing that gap: of offering, in public, a view of private Hillary." --Adam Feldman, Time Out New York "Hnath uncovers nuances in the Clinton marriage that suggests just what Hillary has always been up against.In a deeply misogynist culture, people prefers their Machiavellies to be princes, not princesses, and certainly not queens." --Greg Evans, Deadline "An intriguing, fulfilling sketch of a fantasy.What we're watching is the world's most competently performed therapeutic role-play. But the therapy, as Hnath has ably constructed it, isn't for the Clintons; it is for us.
" --Jesse Oxfeld, New York Stage Review "Simultaneously sly and slight, Hillary and Clinton examines the complications of marriage, both the political and personal types.one thing is certain: in any universe, Hillary Clinton would never see herself as a victim." --Brian Scott Lipton, CitiTour NYC "Provocative and poignant, smart and funny.A bold theatrical speculation and uncovering of the Hillary we didn't see, at least on either of her presidential campaign trails--a woman of surprising vulnerability trying to carve out her own space from the shadow of her forever-charming husband, but wilting in the force-field of his apparent charisma and being frustrated by his own interventions into her story." --Mark Shenton, New York Theatre Guide "[Hillary and Bill are] portrayed as knowing each other so well that in the sleek economy of Hnath's language, they speak with that intimately ferocious candor in which longtime partners are fluent. They've survived their own public-private hell, but just barely. And now, damaged, they, in their separate ways, look to a Hillary presidency for healing and salvation." --Peter Marks, Washington Post.