At The Wedding Reviews

Washington Post- Highly Recommended

"...The thing about weddings is they turn everybody into a psychic. For Carlo, the guest-zilla of Bryna Turner’s play “At the Wedding,” it’s enough to be on the fringes of her ex’s nuptials in Northern California for her to feel the oracular urge."

DC Theater Arts- Highly Recommended

"...By the time the cater-waiter steps onto the stage juggling a hulking, teetering wedding cake in Studio Theatre's production of At the Wedding, the ultimate matrimonial indignity of a ruined cake seems damn near inevitable. After all, up until this point, playwright Bryna Turner has lobbed out one old wedding-story chestnut after another like bridal bouquets: drunk mother, meddling ex, aggrieved bridesmaid. But in that moment, when its beautifully frosted tiers seemed destined for dancefloor disaster, the cake steadies, making a clean exit and offering a refreshing reprieve from the plot twists and laugh-a-minute dialogue that make up the bulk of Turner's play."

MetroWeekly- Recommended

"...Just like a real wedding, these festivities are filled with folks offering free advice. It fizzes like champagne washing down morsels of gossip and heartache. And right there with ears on nearly every confession is Jonathan Atkinson, fabulous as attentive, usually silent cater-waiter Victor, a ball of laughs thanks to his smooth moves and knowing glances."

Talkin Broadway- Recommended

"...The action takes place in various parts of the reception venue, designed by Luciana Stecconi with amusing overkill: sliding barn doors that open to reveal a wall of enormous roses, more flower swags on various pieces of furniture, and a gift table stacked with gifts in color-coordinated wrapping. Danielle Preston's costumes range from Carlo's burgundy pantsuit and bolo tie to bride Eva's (Yesenia Iglesias) sleek, radiant gown. Sound designer Jane Shaw deserves recognition for her dead-on musical selections."

Washington City Paper- Recommended

"...At the Wedding doesn’t rise to that cult kitsch. It’s both too sentimental and PG to gain that kind of notoriety—despite Carlo wondering if “the burning bush” isn’t actually a reference to lesbians bursting into flames upon entering a church. But it does give us a new spin on a classic story setting, and it reminds us why it’s so thrilling to see works created by new voices outside our canon storytellers (i.e., White, cisgender men)."

MD Theatre Guide- Highly Recommended

"...It is all the hijinks you expect at a wedding reception, complete with the obligatory "Macarena" and "YMCA." What makes this event stage-worthy is the magic that happens when Bryna Turner's one-two-punch dialogue meets Tom Story's whimsically edgy direction with a cast that absolutely hits it out of the park. Studio Theatre's production transcends the bounds of the dance floor and brings audiences into the love, humor and, on occasion, depression that can overcome people when one too many gin rickeys spurs an entirely new understanding of Seal's "Kiss from a Rose.""

BroadwayWorld- Recommended

"...At the Wedding is a comedy with tragedy sprinkled in like celebratory confetti that proves difficult to clean up once dispersed. It tries to squeeze in a lot of different ideas, tones, and resonances into barely over an hour. Not all of it lands, but there are seriously funny moments mixed in with the ones that fall flat-and in a story about messy resilience, the unevenness sometimes works. In the script's epigraph, playwright Bryna Turner fittingly quotes a line from Coleridge's "The Rime of The Ancient Mariner" that captures the mess of Carlo's survival: "And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.""