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...Rooms. Lee Blessing's meditation on a Beirut hostage and his grieving spouse was the play of the year, its poetic pain matched by Laura Esterman's gutsy portrait of the wife and James Houghton's brilliantly imaginative staging at off-off- Broadway's tiny Signature Theater. The couple was separated in reality yet entwined in fantasy, often at the same moment...
...Joel Esterman Havertown, Pennsylvania AOL: NOSNOWJOEL...
...Cobb. He hits a new peak in TWO ROOMS, a depiction of a Beirut hostage and his grieving wife that merges harrowing narrative with elegantly poetic, and redemptive, visual and verbal imagery. A brilliant, too-brief off-Broadway staging by James Houghton, starring Jeffrey Hayenga and the unforgettable Laura Esterman, has just closed. The play deserves further productions around the country...
...Broadway knockout by Scott McPherson, respond metaphorically, never mentioning gays or even the disease but instead looking at the universal experiences of illness and dying, family rage and reconciliation. Director David Petrarca has polished the work through stagings in Chicago and Hartford, and it shines -- especially in Laura Esterman's portrayal of a care-giving aunt and Mark Rosenthal's depiction of her turbulent teenage nephew...
Director David Petrarca, who has staged the show in each of its venues, handles the shifts in tones with equal measures of delicacy and boldness. Laura Esterman, who has played Bessie since the beginning, nonetheless has an aura of uncalculated spontaneity in the hardest sort of role, a character of true goodness who is still approachable and fun. Mark Rosenthal and Karl Maschek as the boys, also cast since Chicago, have been ably joined by Lisa Emery as their mother and Alice Drummond as their dotty great-aunt...