In its annual round-up of the year in theater, the Washington City Paper says: …RENT; I know you’ve been around the block a few times, but when your Alphabet City rocks as hard as it did in the Keegan Theatre’s production, I’ve gotta pay you your due.” – Trey Graham
This being a Clifford Odets play, told with tender humanism, we see our own lives right away in the plight of the young boxer. … Lynch and Keena do nice work depicting the growing difficulty with which the traditional father and the rebellious son are able to connect. … Rhea is impressive as the brash
“Keegan’s production of this Clifford Odets play packs a wallop . . . director Lee Mikeska Gardner deftly orchestrates the rhythms and intensities of this 1937 work … ”
The Keegan Theatre is doing a production of “Golden Boy” that seeks to represent Odets very faithfully, touching on the war between the starving artist and the financially successful man, and also on an important national issue: the role that fear of poverty played in the early 1930s, when almost all Americans were extremely anxious
Keegan Theatre’s new banner as seen from the 18th and 17th street, respectively.
THE EDGE “A tremendously talented group of performers … Matt Boliek does an outstanding job of capturing the character Candy … Lee Mathews imbues the character of Curley’s wife, whom many find as loathsome, with enough pathos to make her worthy of pity. … Gavigan is absolutely riveting. … A rare performance in which every actor