Picnic Reviews
Broadway World- Recommended
"...William Inge's 1953 Pulitzer Prize winner Picnic certainly holds up quite well in Antaeus Theatre Company's expert and streamlined production. Cameron Watson directs his talented cast without any extraneous beats, moments, or gestures. Every little detail quite essential and integral to Inge's tale of a drifter's affect on a bunch of traditional Kansas folks back in 1952."
Stage Scene LA- Recommended
"...Family vs. freedom, love vs. duty, beauty vs. brains, and the loneliness that life choices can bring-all of these themes make Picnic the great, if sadly all-too-unsung play it has been for the last sixty-plus years, and all of them come to life on the Antaeus Company stage under Cameron Watson's truly inspired direction with a pair of radically different, equally unbeatable casts, both of which must be seen if you love great theater as much as I do."
On Stage Los Angeles- Recommended
"...The Antaeus's 49 seat theater is the perfect setting for such an intimate story, and the combination of the simple yet impressive set, sounds, lights, and even smells transports you to 1952 Kansas before the play even begins. The simplicity of the setting allowed Cameron Watson's fine directing and the stellar cast to truly shine."