High Maintenance Reviews
LA Splash- Recommended
"...Zimmerman helms the production with skill, milking each and every joke to its fullest. The ensemble cast does a good job of making this sci-fi tale look real, with special kudos to Prentice, who is a painfully convincing robot-turned-actor. The play definitely looks at the "what-if" scenario of robots taking over the stage, especially current following the recent strikes which attempted to put limits and controls on the advance of AI technology in the industry."
Stage Scene LA- Somewhat Recommended
"...Christian Prentice dazzles as a state-of-the-art robot about to star as Torvald in Ibsen's A Doll's House opposite TV diva Ivy Khan's Nora in Peter Ritt's High Maintenance, an initially captivating Road Theatre World Premiere that fails to live up to expectations in its romance-derailing, credibility-straining final scenes."
Stage Raw- Not Recommended
"...Director Stan Zimmerman can't overcome the problems with the writing, and the pacing drags. The problems with Ritt's play are twofold. The dialogue resembles generic sitcom shtick, and this was compounded by the fact that the audience I saw it with barely laughed during the 90-minute runtime. If you're noticing that nobody is laughing during what is supposed to be a comedy, that's a problem. I've already mentioned that the AI/robots replacing workers question is mostly missing here, but also the idea of Laura being "high maintenance" - the very title of the play - is also completely absent. Laura as written couldn't be nicer or more cooperative."
Broadway World- Somewhat Recommended
"...Peter Ritt's world-premiere comedy HIGH MAINTENANCE at the Road Theatre in North Hollywood tackles timely issues rocking the world - including the entertainment world - to mixed results. Sci-fi TV star Laura Miller (Ivy Khan) has been labeled "difficult" and is desperate to redeem her reputation. So she makes a risky move by accepting a role on stage in a version of Ibsen's "A Doll's House" - opposite an AI "thesp-bot" named Roger (Christian Prentice). What could go wrong?"