Star Tribune - Recommended

"...Yes, there is something of a plot, but it really doesn't matter. The joy of this show is just watching the characters pitching and catching one-liners and breezing through the light nostalgia of TV's golden age. Isn't that what summer is for?"
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Twin Cities Daily Planet - Recommended

"...Director Zach Curtis brings together a wonderful cast throwing out zingers left and right. His staging of Neil Simon’s play seems very familiar to anyone who saw the Mel Brooks’ movie My Favorite Year, or the Carl Reiner produced series The Dick Van Dyke Show. Both Reiner and Brooks were also writers on Caesar’s show. Simon’s play creates characters that are based on Reiner and Brooks. The program’s synopsis lists the other real-life counterparts for each character, including Sid Caesar, Larry Gelbart, Mel Tolkin, Selma Diamond and Michael Stewart. Most of these writers went on to achieve notable success in show business after Caesar’s show went off the air. All of the actors provide considerable humor in their roles, except for the Neil Simon character portrayed by John Catron who appears to be the straight man in this group of zanies."
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How Was The Show - Recommended

"... Laughter, in my humble opinion, is the best of Simon’s later exercises in nostalgia. Personally I find the family plays (Brighton Beach Memoirs, Lost In Yonkers) a touch treacly, but this play evokes the early days of television with a dry, unsentimental and refreshingly nasty flair. Not a lot happens. Writers, six men and one acerbic, holding-her-own woman, pace the writer’s room, eat bagels, drink the harsh coffee and prepare to create comedy sketches for The Max Prince Show (based on Sid Caesar’s Your Show Of Shows). They prepare, mainly, by insulting each other with strident and lusty zeal. “Where else,” one of the writers asks, “would we have so much fun?”"
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