Last Night at Mikell's Reviews

LA Theatrix- Highly Recommended

"...Having its West Coast premiere at the Robey Theatre Company, "Last Night at Mikell's" - written by Larry Muhammad and directed by the Robey's co-founder and artistic director Ben Guillory - is an emotionally immersive production highlighting Black artists near the close of the last century."

Stage Raw- Recommended

"...Grant Gerrard's realistic set wonderfully recreates Harlem's legendary jazz club, Mikell's (founded in 1969), and is enhanced by Vanessa Fernandez's projections of musicians and singers who performed there (including Lena Horn, Earther Kitt, Whitney Houston, Miles David, and Ella Fitzgerald). This sets the production's tone, but it also turns the bar into a character in and of itself."

Peoples World- Highly Recommended

"...With a bar, tables, chairs, and a stage, the set was designed by Grant Gerrard to look like the eponymous legendary nightclub on Manhattan's Upper West Side, where most of the action takes place. A montage or mosaic of images (designed by Vanessa Fernandez) projected on the walls mostly featured outstanding African American artists, including John Coltrane, Lena Horne, Sly Stone, Amiri Baraka, Toni Morrison, et al., imparting the sense that this jazz club is a cultural gem."

Nerds Of Color- Highly Recommended

"...Last Night at Mikell's is a terrific play that exemplifies Black Excellence not only with their historical characters but with the actors that inhabit them. Along with a Black theatre company that I eagerly look forward to seeing more of their works in the future, I am reminded of how rich and talented the Los Angeles theatre scene is and in a time like this, we need such expressions like these to keep pushing the narrative forward that this country of ours is only great because of the people of global majority that weave its fabrics."