Carla Hall - Please Underestimate Me Reviews

MD Theatre Guide- Highly Recommended

"...Nearly flawless is the first phrase that comes to mind when describing Carla Hall’s one-woman show, “Please Underestimate Me.” True to its title, the production delivers a hard-hitting deconstruction of the entertainment industry and the toll that it can take on women—or, in this case, one woman. Hall culls from her professional experiences as well as stories centered on her early, formative years as she brings audiences on an inner spiritual journey of sorts, turned outward. The resounding message: trust in yourself, believe in your voice and own your power, or you may be left with some hefty regrets."

BroadwayWorld- Recommended

"...Look up biscuit recipes online and you’ll find hundreds of different takes on the same subject vying for your attention, from “quick and easy” biscuits to “easy and fluffy” biscuits all the way to “the BEST” biscuits. Click into one and you’re likely to be greeted with a sizeable preamble on some topic or other: a provocative manifesto on the milk versus buttermilk debate, a preemptive mea culpa for the biscuits being slightly less easy than advertised, a tangent on the music of Kacey Musgraves, or maybe even someone’s entire life story."

DC Theater Arts- Recommended

"...It’s a leitmotif that surfaces in her accounts of the Top Chef flameout, of toxic on-set dynamics at ABC’s The Chew, the daytime chat-and-cook show she co-hosted for years, even of her relationship with her formidably accomplished mother, who steered Hall firmly away from early theater-camp dreams of performing and into an accounting degree at Howard University — followed by what sounds like a thoroughly grim two years at what was then called Price Waterhouse."