Los Angeles Times - Recommended
"...The Antaeus Company's production of Caryl Churchill's "Top Girls" brings us refreshingly back to the basics of great theater: a sharply intelligent, poetically daring play; a company of actors dedicated to serving both their characters and an author's unique dramatic style; and a director, unencumbered by lavish resources, able to concentrate our attention on what matters most."
LA Weekly - Recommended
"...Still, overall, the work, under Cameron Watson's direction, is uniformly fine; there's not a subpar performance in the lot."
Stage and Cinema - Recommended
"...This quiet, naked moment not only articulates Churchill's themes-a woman's precarious balance between work and personal life and getting ahead, surviving, and finding fulfillment in a male-dominated world-but it is one of the most heartbreaking and transcendent moments you may ever see in the theater."
The Hollywood Reporter - Recommended
"...This relatively modest mounting in a tiny house scants no strand of profundity despite the challenging ambitions of tone and intention, representing the virtues of local small theater at its very finest. I had not seen the show since the first U.K. company brought it to the Public Theatre around New Year's 1983 with an ensemble that included Lindsay Duncan and Lesley Manville. It was transcendent then, and perhaps this go-around, informed by the historical experience of three more decades of progress both rapid and glacial, may be even more so now."
StageHappenings.com - Recommended
"...If you don't know the play, you owe it to yourself to catch either cast, or the mix-and-match evenings. Powerful piece of theatre, well done here."
ArtsInLA - Recommended
"...In less-skilled hands than those of director Cameron Watson and the venerable members of Antaeus Theatre Company, today Top Girls might have stayed on the bottom. Instead, however, the production is vital, sometimes disturbing, and totally smashing."
TheatreTimes.org - Recommended
"...A play ostensibly promoting awareness of a career woman's struggles is a good fit at Antaeus, where respect for actors' career demands lead to a double-casting policy that gives actors alternate performances off to pursue additional work. Audiences will see one of two teams with a third, mixed cast option, which is reviewed here. Based on these performances, it can be assumed that whatever constellation appears on a given night will be brilliant."
Culture Spot LA - Recommended
"...Even though the playwright seems too clever for her own good at times, the questions she raises and their applicability to the times in which she wrote this play are more than just valid, they are sharpened to a fine point. Go see Antaeus' "Top Girls" for the memorable characters, the strong acting and the nostalgic blast from our big-shouldered past."
Grigware Blogspot - Recommended
"...Normally not my teacup, a play about women's liberation through the ages would not pique my interest, but Caryl Churchill's surprising setups, intense character examinations, fiercely dramatic confrontations and unexpected reactions make 1982′s Top Girls a must see in my book. Antaeus' top-notch production has magnificent casting and superb direction from Cameron Watson, through May 4."
Working Authur - Recommended
"...The Antaeus Company's willingness to produce plays of such complexity stands as a testament to their commitment to bring Los Angeles audiences works that are both entertaining and challenging. And "Top Girls" certainly fills that bill."
Living Out Loud Los Angeles - Recommended
"..."Top Girls" is definitely a must-see, as it will have you looking at the struggle that women went through in the 1980's, and how that same personal struggle is still present today."
