Stage and Cinema
- Highly Recommended
"...Earhart is matched by a top-notch ensemble-especially Amy Shaughnessy as bestie Susan, Hudson Long as gay friend Peter, and Alex Scyocurka as the incorrigible love interest Scoop-who make every exchange bristle with authenticity and lived-in connection. Shon LeBlanc's perfectly dated costumes let the decades glide by without feeling like a gimmick. Most importantly, Wasserstein's script still sparkles as literature-sharp, funny, and quietly moving-and here it's delivered with an ease that makes you forget the years on the calendar. Heidi may end the play alone, but this revival-which flies by even at 140 minutes-makes you feel like you've just spent the evening with old friends who still have something important to say."
LA Splash
- Highly Recommended
"...Scenic design is simple yet complex, courtesy of Kathi Chaplar, who does double duty as scenic designer and actor in the piece. Shon LeBlanc does an excellent job of depicting years, and even decades, through costume – ably assisted by Krys Fehervari’s hair and makeup design. John Harvey’s sound, Robbie Myles’ lighting, and Doug Haverty’s graphic design round out a creative team attuned to the messages in THE HEIDI CHRONICLES. This is an excellent show and well worth a trip to the Lonny Chapman Theatre to enjoy the Group Rep’s production of this classic play. It is timely, relevant, fascinating, fun – and thought-provoking."
Stage Scene LA
- Highly Recommended
"...Playwright Wendy Wasserstein encapsulates a quarter century of the American women's movement as she recounts the Life and Loves of Heidi Holland in her Pulitzer Prize-winning dramedy The Heidi Chronicles, now being given an absorbing, illuminating 37th-anniversary revival at the Group Rep Theatre."
CurtainUp
- Highly Recommended
"...Earhart, a superb actress, possesses an unusual ability to project innocence and smarts at the same time. She inherits a role played by many since Joan Allen originated it when the play had its premiere at Playwrights Horizons Off-Broadway. Creatively, each scene, depicting a chronology of eras, is delineated by a slideshow of articles and headlines. Also, a set featuring blank picture frames, allows for the audience to visualize their own images of what photos fit in those frames."
Hollywood Progressive
- Recommended
"...Brent Beerman does a deft job directing his ensemble (even if he is a man, ha ha ha!). The play is well-acted, if a bit long, but the saga does cover three decades, and the cast, endowed with Ms. Wasserstein’s words, ask the questions that, alas, need to be raised again – along with our consciousness."
NoHoArtsDistrict
- Highly Recommended
"...THE HEIDI CHRONICLES is simple and truthful and such a magical, important and astonishingly relevant piece of theatre. The characters are intense and yet they really could be any one of us. The writing is profoundly clever, often hilarious and always surprising."
Stage Raw
- Recommended
"...Written by Wendy Wasserstein in 1988, The Heidi Chronicles covers the span of 24 years from 1969 to 1989. It is clearly a great deal of Heidi Holland's (Amy Earhart) life being shown as we see her go from a teenager to a woman in her 30s, while living in or visiting Chicago, New Hampshire, New York and Michigan. Over the course of time, she pays close attention to society, her role in it as a young woman, and what she feels needs to be changed. (There's even a protest about women being in art that she spearheads)."
Glamgical
- Recommended
"...Director Brent Beerman and the main actors, Earhart, Long, and Scyocurka show Wasserstein's point of view of looking at feminism as aspirational in the concept state, but a constant struggle as an achievement in real life. Earhart exposes Heidi's underlying strengths and vulnerabilities. The same applies to Long as Peter and Scyocurka as Scoop. Beerman makes sure to have his three actors highlight the insecurities of the characters and the evasive pursuit of happiness. Costumer Shon LeBlanc does a fantastic job recreating the costumes of the 60s, 70s, and 80s."
