In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel Reviews
Stage and Cinema- Not Recommended
"...It can be a curse to start one's literary or dramatic career with a masterpiece. Doing so serves to intensify the expectations of one's readership or audience while inflating the artist's creative anxieties. Towards the end of his life, author of the classic antiwar novel Catch-22, Joseph Heller was being interviewed, when the reporter was churlish enough to offer his unsolicited opinion that with all his later efforts, that Heller had never succeeded in writing anything as good as Catch-22, Heller quipped back, "Who has'""
LA Splash- Recommended
"...Skillfully helmed by Jack Heller, IN THE BAR OF A TOKYO HOTEL is an intriguing character study of two people caught in a lonely, hopeless, and desperate prison of their own making. The talented cast - with special kudos to Susan Priver for her anguished portrayal of the promiscuous and unfulfilled Miriam - digs deep into the personalities of the artist and his directionless spouse longing for something meaningful in her life."
Stage Raw- Somewhat Recommended
"...However, the play itself - while frequently poetic - is overwritten and features characters that, for the most part, are not emotionally accessible."
Ticket Holders LA- Not Recommended
"...Although it's oddly seductive and certainly revealing to be privy to how completely Williams was able to express the deepest pain and sense of loss that was destroying his life at the time of this writing and how this flawed play remains a perfect chronicle of how one worldclass wordsmith inadvertently set out to destroy himself, it's a shame how much time, energy, talent, and financial support had to be expended to attempt to bring In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel to dubious fruition."
Larchmont Buzz- Somewhat Recommended
"...Intriguingly, one of his lesser-known plays, In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel, is currently playing at the Hudson's Backstage 99-seat theatre. And if you are a Williams admirer, now is the time to see Dance on Productions take on this alluring yet flawed play."