The Typist Reviews
Stage Scene LA- Highly Recommended
"...A jaded novelist and the cockeyed optimist he hires to type his latest opus try hard not to fall hard for each other in 1961 Greenwich Village in Shem Bitterman’s edgy and entertaining World Premiere two-hander The Typist, now playing at the Hudson Guild Theatre."
Stage Raw- Somewhat Recommended
"...Although the pacing is brisk (direction by Jeremy Wechsler) and the actors clearly talented, the story itself does not have much substance. There’s plenty of “writerly” dialogue which doesn’t land because we really don’t know what the writer’s book is about, other than an examination of the failed relationship between the writer and his ex-wife. And we don’t learn much about either of the characters outside the confines of the studio apartment."
Ticket Holders LA- Somewhat Recommended
"...Again, more judicious guidance from director Jeremy Wechsler might have helped tone down his annoyingly self-assured cockiness. James starts as such a high pitch-all the while shouting his lines in the 43-seat Hudson as though he was trying to reach the third balcony at the Chandler-that when his character at one point has an emotional breakdown and is carted off for a stay in Bellevue, since his delivery is as shrill and out of control as where it began, there's no new place for him to go to get there."
Larchmont Buzz- Somewhat Recommended
"...Saxophone, black turtlenecks, clear liquor, cigarettes, exposed brick, scribbled-on pages, and roaches underfoot – welcome to Greenwich Village, 1961. Convinced that he has just completed the next Great American Novel, a Writer (Noah James), hires a Typist (Evangeline Edwards) to clack out his manuscript on the typewriter. Confined within the Writer’s bohemian basement apartment, The Typist explores the fantasy of proximity to tortured artistry."
Broadway World- Highly Recommended
"...It’s a jazz-infused love story which transports audiences to the Summer of ’61 in a Greenwich Village basement apartment where a bourbon-soaked novelist is racing to complete his manuscript for publishing. It begins as he interviews a young aspiring writer to work as his typist to commit his words to the page. What begins as a professional arrangement with dictation, typing, coffee, repeat, becomes something more combustible between two sad and lonely people looking for a reason to keep going."