Los Angeles Times - Recommended
"...Shaw's "Misalliance," now in revival at A Noise Within in Pasadena, offers the pleasures of brilliant chat. It's a wordy play, running close to three hours. The plot, which includes the crash landing of an airplane and an armed intruder out to settle a family score, is nearly all talk."
Stage and Cinema - Highly Recommended
"...So, you stroll into the theater, right? You see this fancy conservatory set up, all English manor-style, and you think, “Oh, a nice, polite little comedy is about to unfold.” But hold your horses! George Bernard Shaw, that sly old fox, has other plans with his 1909 gem Misalliance, now getting a snazzy production at A Noise Within in Pasadena."
LA Splash - Highly Recommended
"...Who can resist George Bernard Shaw's tantalizing and satirical plays? Written in 1909-1910, MISALLIANCE is certainly one of Shaw's funniest, most carefree, comic farces offering one of the playwright's most memorable observations: "If marriages were made by putting all the men's names into one sack and the women's names into another, and having them taken out by a blind-folded child, like lottery numbers, there would be just as high a percentage of happy marriages as we have now." MISALLIANCE touches upon a myriad of ideas that attracted Shaw, including marriage, "the New Woman," socialism, sex, class, gender, and physical fitness. First produced in 1910 in London with Shaw as director, MISALLIANCE has been presented over the years to delighted audiences. In 2024, A Noise Within proudly presents MISALLIANCE for today's audiences."
Stage Scene LA - Highly Recommended
"...George Bernard Shaw fans won't find a more sparklingly performed or exquisitely designed production of Misalliance than the one now playing at A Noise Within, and even if like me you find Shaw plays overly long and talky, this one's suddenly zippy second act will have you singing its praises."
Stage Raw - Highly Recommended
"...The real action of the play jumpstarts around the spectacular landing of a small plane in the Tarleton garden. The plane is piloted by Bentley's dashing friend, Joe Percival (Dan Lin) and his passenger Lina (Trisha Miller) a magnetically attractive and thoroughly liberated Polish woman with acrobatic talents and a take-no-prisoners tongue she brandishes when smitten men try to seduce her. The arrival of this pair stirs confusion among the heretofore established alliances within the family and their visitors. But the real bedlam transpires when an armed man (Joshua Bitton), hopping mad at Tarleton's past seduction of his mother, stalks the house, aiming to shoot him."
Broadway World - Highly Recommended
"...Misalliance is a triumphant new production of George Bernard Shaw’s 1910 classic comedy at A Noise Within in Pasadena. Misalliance is a delight, a breezy, witty, carefree period romp and delectable social satire set on the sprawling Surrey estate of underwear tycoon John Tartleton. There all kinds of delightful shenanigans, philosophical bloviating, plane crashes, madcap hillside lovemaking, and even a little light-hearted assassination attempt in the conservatory."
