-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...
"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...
