Bordertown Now Reviews
Los Angeles Times- Recommended
"...Culture Clash could have made this material into a documentary. Their choice to write a play suggests that they wanted to explore the various borderlands the theater opens up - between fact and fiction, between satire and agitprop, between 1998 and 2018. The show doesn't always keep its footing. But even its missteps reinforce the message that the person who tells a story gets to decide who's the villain and who's the hero. The question, in our fractured culture, is whether anybody who doesn't already agree will be listening."
Stage and Cinema- Recommended
"...This sense of hopefulness is at the heart of what Culture Clash intends. They have been turning documentary interviews into vibrant theatrical experiences for twenty years now and are revisiting the satirical landscape of their late '90s project, Bordertown, in a series of vignettes set at various locations at or near the Sonoran Desert on the American side. It is a culturally significant experience. It is also a very funny and often unexpectedly sweet show that leaves the audience feeling open to finding a shared sense of humanity. Turning on the news in the car radio on the way home, though, is a quick reminder of how perilous and delicate any such journey will be."
On Stage Los Angeles- Recommended
"...Director Diane Rodrieguez's hand is subtle. Her impressive credits going back to the days of El Teatro Campasino, Luis Valdez's strong polemic work that brought the plight of farm workers to the fore, showing her foundation in political theatre."