Banshee Reviews
Los Angeles Times- Somewhat Recommended
"...The result – a blend of an old-fashioned ghost story and a kitchen sink family drama – has moments of real sweetness, intervals of flagrant family dysfunction and a minute or two of genuinely gut-wrenching horror. However, the missed opportunities in Petti's play render its sum less than its parts."
LA Weekly- Recommended
"...It's a bit like The Glass Menagerie with actual nightmares. This is no play of ideas, but it's an amazing, sentimental thrill ride under James R. Carey's spot-on direction of this terrific ensemble. And Lydell's performance is a monument to the matriarch-playing-martyr. There's also a lovely cameo by Norm Johnson as a taunting dock driver."
Neon Tommy- Somewhat Recommended
"...Although the premiere can't hide the faults in "Banshee", it holds promise as a play and may be on its way to being a very important theatrical meditation on essential questions of our day. With editorial work and another production, the show could be very dramatically and intellectually compelling, but as it is, it fails to live up to its ambitious promise."