Back Porch Reviews
LA Splash- Highly Recommended
"...Director Kelie McIver does an excellent job of building up suspense as the disparate personalities strike sparks which might threaten to start a house fire. She is especially effective in defining the dynamics between the worldly Bill and the naïve Gary as they do the two-step dance drawing them ever closer."
Stage Scene LA- Highly Recommended
"...Playwright Eric Anderson pays affectionate tribute to William Inge in Back Porch, the play Inge might himself have written had mid-20th-century Middle America not kept the gay Kansan locked tightly in the closet."
Showmag- Recommended
"...Back Porch, directed by Kelie McIver, is now in a world-premier production at Burbank’s Victory Theatre. It is an inventive drama written by Eric Anderson and inspired by the making of the movie Picnic. As the play opens, several people are enjoying a late springtime afternoon in a tiny town in the middle of Kansas."
Stage Raw- Highly Recommended
"...An old-timey small town in Kansas. A young person chafing at its limitations and longing to see the world. A handsome stranger of uncertain moral character who appears as a catalyst for change. These plot elements appear front and center in William Inge's Pulitzer-prize-winning play, Picnic, and they're appropriated with fair success by playwright Eric Anderson in his new play Back Porch, a gay love story that turns on one youth's sexual awakening and his inauguration into the difficult choices maturity may usher in."
Ticket Holders LA- Highly Recommended
"...The world premiere of Back Porch, Eric Anderson's loving homage to William Inge's classic tale Picnic, delivers a charming, sweet little gem of a play to the Victory."
Glamgical- Recommended
"...Both Jay and Morgan do a great job getting into their characters to show the nuances of a young and uncertain romance in the midst of a judgmental environment. Although the first half of the play feels a bit slow, the second part picks up steam and keeps the audience engaged. A story within a story, the play is a snippet of an era considered a time of affluence, community, and unity, but also a time in which Americans had little patience with divergent views, including attitudes towards same-sex relationships."
The Hollywood Times- Highly Recommended
"...If you want to kick your Summer off to a perfect start, go see playwright Eric Anderson’s gem of a play, Back Porch, at the Victory Theatre in Burbank."