The Shark Is Broken Reviews
Stage and Cinema- Recommended
"...The Shark Is Broken is less interested in the triumph than in the waiting—in the narrow strip of time when three men sat on a boat with nothing to do but talk and drink and measure themselves against one another, unaware that the thing refusing to work was about to make them permanent."
LA Theatrix- Recommended
"...If you are even remotely a fan of the 1975 blockbuster movie “Jaws,” you will thoroughly enjoy the play “The Shark is Broken” at Laguna Playhouse, written by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon about the off-screen dialogue among the movie’s three main actors — Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider and Robert Shaw."
Hollywood Progressive- Highly Recommended
"...Shaw shines in this drama with some comedic touches, not only because in 1975 he was then the most accomplished actor and biggest star of the trio, but also because The Shark Is Broken is co-written by his son, Ian Shaw (with Joseph Nixon), whose mother was the wonderful actress Mary Ure (1959’s screen adaptation of John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger)."