THE CRITICS RSVP with PRAISE for the PARTY!
TACT's Prodcution of
THE COCKTAIL PARTY
garners praise!
"This production is being performed with elan by a high-class ensemble cast. The run has been extended for a week. It should have been a year."
- Wall Street Journal"Chilling...Sparkling...with the style of a frothy drawing-room affair."
- New York Times "Intriguing...a welcome chance to see this rarely performed play"
-NY POST "Handsome...Challenging...We must laud any company that wrestles with Eliot’s chimera, which has the head of a comedy, the body of a sermon and the stinging tail of a satire on Freud."
Timeout NY "T.S. Eliot's smart, amusing 'Cocktail Party' is a party worth attending!...Simon Jones is excellent...Cynthia Harris is delightful""
- Associated Press “Superb…Spirited…director Scott Alan Evans gives Eliot's weightier passages their due.”
-The Village Voice "AN IMPECCABLE REVIVAL...delivered by the outstanding ensemble."
- Theatermania "A STRONG CAST...this is a stimulating "Party."
-Backstage "A HANDSOME STAGING...intelligent, invigorating performances...well worth your time!"
-Curtain Up "SMART AND ELEGANT...the cast couldn't be finer"
-TalkEntertainment “An elegant staging with an impeccable cast under the astute, knowledgeable direction by Scott Alan Evans.”
-Wolf Entertainment Guide “An EXPERT CAST illuminates both the text’s CRYSTALLINE POETRY and its ELUSIVE ideas. CHEERS to TACT for taking the risk, and CHEERS for SUCCEEDING SO WELL.” -
Light And Sound America “[The] simple elegance works perfectly well. So does the play and the cast. Evans directs it wondrously. TACT: the most valuable revival troupe in town!”
- Peter Filichia’s Diary/ Theatremania “TACT is one of the finest ensembles in this city, and THE COCKTAIL PARTY is an intellectually stimulating, quite entertaining piece of Theatre that will provoke thought, conversation and argument well into the night.”
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Performing Arts Insider “This is just going to knock your socks off!”
- WOR/ Dr. Joy Browne “Fascinating…a finely wrought production. As is usually the case, a TACT (The Actors Company Theatre) production is impeccable, with “The Cocktail Party” being another example of the company’s fine work.”
- Epoch Times “TACT’s fine production … the cast is excellent all around. This is a meaty work that makes you think.”
- Forbes On Film And Footlights