Primary Trust Reviews

Los Angeles Times- Highly Recommended

"...“Primary Trust,” which is receiving its L.A. premiere at the Mark Taper Forum, is a tonic for ailing spirits. The production, directed by Knud Adams, who staged the 2023 Roundabout Theatre Company world premiere in New York as well as the 2024 West Coast premiere at La Jolla Playhouse, where I first encountered and fell in love with the play, invites theatergoers to take a break from their alienated lives and become part of a community, whose motto is “Welcome Friend, You’re Right On Time!”"

Stage Scene LA- Highly Recommended

"...The Pulitzer Prize Board doesn’t always get it right but they most definitely did in 2024 when they opted for hope, healing, and heart over heavy-handedness in honoring Eboni Booth’s Primary Trust, now getting a much anticipated Los Angeles Premiere at the Mark Taper Forum, with the Pulitzer Prize for Drama."

Indulge Magazine- Highly Recommended

"...The Los Angeles premiere of “Primary Trust” arrived not with spectacle, but with something closer to a soft hello: unhurried, unguarded, and all the more disarming for it. Eboni Booth’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, presented by Center Theatre Group and directed by Knud Adams, asks almost nothing of an audience except its attention, and then repays that attention with something increasingly rare on a large stage: tenderness offered without apology."

Larchmont Buzz- Recommended

"...The Pulitzer Prize-winning play Primary Trust is the story of Kenneth (Petey McGee), a 38-year-old who has been traumatized by his difficult childhood. He speaks in fits and starts and has trouble connecting with people. Kenneth lives in Cranberry, New York, a smallish town not far from Rochester, in an undefined time before smartphones and the web."

Broadway World- Highly Recommended

"...Similarly, PRIMARY TRUST has the power to leave viewers – and certainly this critic – without words, and I mean this in a good way. During several moments of the play’s opening night at Center Theatre Group’s Mark Taper Forum, the only sounds to be heard in an otherwise silent house, were audience members sniffling back tears. Booth’s deeply sympathetic rendering of a good man navigating a life of crises is 95 minutes of sublimity. And in the role of Kenneth, actor Petey McGee delivers a performance that is as throat lump-inducing as it is uplifting."