Broadway World - Highly Recommended
"...The acting is excellent as well. Lindsey and Garces are well-paired, both infusing their characters with a strong dose of idealism which falls away in different ways and at different times as Walker and Annie gradually learn the price they will pay for their relationship. As sympathetic as he clearly is to Walker's situation, Leight tilts the plot (and the audience's allegiance) in Annie's favor and comes close to martyring her to her country's sins and her husband's mule-headedness. But in Garces's steady hands, the character is consistently charismatic, believable and ever hopeful. It's lovely work."
LA Splash - Highly Recommended
"...HOME FRONT is a well written, directed, and acted drama which focuses on bigotry and hate in a very personal way. At the same time, it is engaging, engrossing, and entertaining. This is a thought-provoking production which is highly recommended."
Stage Scene LA - Highly Recommended
"...An interracial couple fall in love on VJ Day 1945 only to find their post-WWII hopes and dreams dashed by the discovery that, as the French so aptly put it, “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose,” in the Victory Theatre Center West Coast Premiere of Warren Leight’s eye-opening, emotion-packed Home Front."
Hollywood Progressive - Highly Recommended
"...Directed by Maria Gobetti and produced by Tom Ormeny, Evan Bartolett, and Gobetti, Home Front is a crosscurrent of racism, homophobia, domestic abuse, misogyny, you name it, but it is no polemic. Though it's a work of fiction, you can easily imagine three people like these coming together in that city at that point in history, especially with the cast's heart-rendingly wonderful performances."
NoHoArtsDistrict - Highly Recommended
"...Home Front is a very beautiful and very tragic play. Poignant, heartfelt, full of realism and tragedy and love. With echos of Romeo and Juliet, if the Montagues were the north and the Capulets the south and the divide were fairness and decency instead of Jim Crow. “From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.”"
Stage Raw - Highly Recommended
"...In this west coast premiere of Home Front, by Warren Leight, a psychiatrist is quoted as saying, “This country will break your heart.” So will this beautifully rendered play. The statement by the psychiatrist foretells what happens to the story’s three characters in the face of a doomed interracial love affair during the 1940s, when such a union was taboo."
Peoples World - Recommended
"...Home Front is taut drama magnificently enacted by three very accomplished actors who totally own their characters—or is it that the characters own them? Especially now, during Black History Month, when Americans of all description are invited to assess the key role African Americans have played throughout our history, this would be a good play to grapple with."
Larchmont Buzz - Highly Recommended
"...Home Front takes what might seem to be a predictable storyline, about a mid-century American interracial couple who meet at a V-J Day dance, and tells a story that feels both evolutionary and revolutionary."
Glamgical - Highly Recommended
"...Warren Leight fictionalizes documented historical events and transports the audience to a dangerous and euphoric world where high hopes and ideals get a reality check. The play is a window to a critical past that captures in unnerving detail the pungency of racism. It is a cautionary tale that shows how things would look like if we continue to move backwards. But it is also an ode to those who, against all odds, continue to fight, continue to believe."
