Star Tribune - Highly Recommended

"...You need to stick with Lindsay-Abaire through the atmospheric first act — sketches of life in South BAH-ston — before he digs into the muscle of his ideas. It is worth the wait."
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Twin Cities Daily Planet - Highly Recommended

"...Although a lot of the play’s emphasis is on the class distinctions between the working and affluent classes in this country, its most provocative themes revolve around the issues of destiny. Is Margie’s meager lot in life due to bad decisions on her part, or is it due to bad breaks and lack of parental support? Is Mike’s success due to his brains and hard work, or was it a matter of luck that he had a supportive father who prevented the teen-age Mike from beating to death an African-American teen who walked into Southie? Finally, can you decide to be a “good people”? The questions linger long after one leaves the theater, which is the sign of a very good play."
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How Was The Show - Recommended

"...One can’t help but compare David Lindsay-Abaire‘s breezy and likable Good People (at Park Square, through Oct 6) with Bruce Norris’s bleak Clybourne Park, recently produced at the Guthrie. Both plays address the unspoken elephant in the American room. For Norris, it’s race; for Lindsay-Abaire, the elephant is class. Clybourne Park may be the better play – more incisive, more astute and insightful. But Good People, with its panoply of sweet and lovable characters, its nifty comic structure, its loving portrayal of working class Bahston, its cunningly placed laugh lines, is a heckuva lot more fun."
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Aisle Say Twin Cities - Recommended

"...Although racial humor is thankfully passé in the local theatre scene, it is shameful that it continues to be socially acceptable for privileged audiences to get their belly laughs at the very real situation of the urban poor. Yet I still might recommend going to see Good People, since the show does offer some truly top-notch acting, impeccable comic timing, and a glimpse at the sort of biting commentary this play could have been. And though this is not the type of social awareness Lindsay-Abaire was going for, the production offers a striking window into just how deeply ingrained our social inequalities are. You’ll see: just listen to the audience."
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