-Baker may just have the subtlest way with exposition of anyone writing for the theater today... There is something distinctly Chekhovian in the way her writing accrues weight and meaning simply through compassionate, truthful observation.- --Charles Isherwood, New York Times
-Baker has a soft spot for the abandoned, the discarded, the hard luck case... her heartbreaking works of staggering focus have actually rescued realism from the aesthetic scrap heap- -- Helen Shaw, Time Out New York
-Baker is a writer whose plays have a quiet, hypnotic charm, a grace and...
-Baker may just have the subtlest way with exposition of anyone writing for the theater today... There is something distinctly Chekhovian in the wa...
-Superior to any other Uncle Vanya I've read or seen... Baker practices astonishing verbal magic over and over again.- - Clancy Martin, Paris Review -Strikingly intimate... Free of the stilted or formal locutions that clutter up some of the more antique-sounding translations... Ms. Baker has given the play a natural but distinctly contemporary American sound.- - Charles Isherwood, New York Times -Devastatingly beautiful... People are going to be talking about this one for years.- - Jacob Gallagher-Ross, Village Voice -More than a modern-dress treatment...
-Superior to any other Uncle Vanya I've read or seen... Baker practices astonishing verbal magic over and over again.- - Clancy Martin, Pari...
Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama "Funny, heartbreaking, sly and unblinking...The Flick may be the best argument anyone has yet made for the continued necessity and profound uniqueness of theater." --Jesse Green, New York "Hilarious and ineffably touching...Ms. Baker's peerless aptitude for exploring how people grope their way toward a sense of equanimity, even as they learn to accept disappointment, is among the things that make her such a gifted writer...This lovingly observed play will sink deep into your consciousness." --Charles Isherwood, New...
Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama "Funny, heartbreaking, sly and unblinking...The Flick may be the best argument anyone ha...
WINNER 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winner 2013 OBIE Award, Playwriting Winner 2013 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Nominee 2013 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Play Nominee 2013 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Play Finalist 2013 New York Critics Circle Award, Best Play In a run-down movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35 millimeter film projectors in the state. Their tiny battles and not-so-tiny heartbreaks play out in the empty aisles, becoming more gripping than the lackluster,...
WINNER 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winner 2013 OBIE Award, Playwriting Winner 2013 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Nominee 2013 Drama...
"Annie Baker's John is so good on so many levels that it casts a unique and brilliant light... By not rushing things--by letting the characters develop as gradually and inevitably as rain or snowfall--Baker returns us to the naturalistic but soulful theatre that many of her contemporaries and near-contemporaries have disavowed in their rush to be 'postmodern.'" - New Yorker "John, like any great play, raises a lot of questions-not just about the human experience, but also about the state of contemporary theater, it doesn't provide many answers; it is not the...
"Annie Baker's John is so good on so many levels that it casts a unique and brilliant light... By not rushing things--by letting the characters...
