| Los Angeles Times - Somewhat Recommended
"...The cast members are clearly enjoying themselves, but with a fair number of duds among the verbal warheads, hilarity is not always mutually assured."
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LA Weekly - Somewhat Recommended
"...If a play is going to traffic in cartoons, as this one does, they really need to keep bouncing off the walls — so fast that we miss the various improbabilities. Breaking the fourth wall allows for a kind of winking humor. Yet those same intrusive reflections by various narrators allow us time to consider the play’s shortcomings."
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Backstage - Not Recommended
"...There’s almost nothing to recommend save the work of the rubber-faced and inconspicuously hilarious Michael Caldwell, assaying a variety of minor roles as butlers and waiters. His veteran costars, each far more central to the story line, can only sweat and dance and lick and overact in a futile effort to keep “Mutually Assured Destruction” from instigating its own annihilation."
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Stage and Cinema - Not Recommended
"...The largely white, largely middle-aged to elderly audience at the Odyssey seemed happy enough with what was on offer. However, I did notice a few people leaving at the intermission, never to return. If it hadn’t been my responsibility to stay, I would have been one of them."
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LA Splash - Somewhat Recommended
"...This comedy of manners, witty and intellectually sharp as it is, lacks two things. First, there’s not much physical comedy. Granted that Lefcourt, who has more than paid his dues on episodic TV, probably didn’t want to lapse into flat-out sitcom. But Moliere would not have hesitated. Lucille Ball or Ernst Lubitsch would have had characters frantically running between bedrooms. There is one notable episode of simulated Tantric sex, and believe me you don’t want to miss that. Second, there is no mention whatever of the younger generation."
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Examiner - Recommended
"...It’s worth seeing because it’s a fun night out and because director Terri Hanauer has done a commendable job of steering her excellent cast through its far-fetched paces."
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MadTheatrics - Somewhat Recommended
"...To keep in mind, that while I didn’t particularly like the show, (I enjoyed elements) there was a very loud and very vocal part of the audience that enjoyed it far more than me. The audience seemed split in this regard. Take a chance, you never know."
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