Washington Post - Recommended
"...The actors’ energy levels on this press night felt all over the place, perhaps because of nerves or the knowledge that they were playing to friends. In any event, I’d like to go back, because so many fine actors are sharing the stage: Rick Foucheux, Alexander Strain, KenYatta Rogers and Jeff Allin, among others. They seem in striking distance of not only getting “Glengarry’s” laughs, which does occur, but also of nailing the excruciating desperation at the core of the play — which doesn’t."
Washington Examiner - Recommended
"...Mamet's play is like a swift kick in the pants, and here he ends his episode in a sad state of aporia. We don't get to find out what happens to his four seedy salesmen, but we need only look to our own shady backyards for a candid resolution."
MetroWeekly - Recommended
"...Glengarry Glen Ross focuses on a group of struggling salesmen in a real-estate business, whose sole concern is making sales – ''always be closing'' – so they can get rich and afford Cadillacs. Who cares if the properties aren't worth their asking prices, or if their clients can't really afford to buy – or want to change their minds a couple days after being strong-armed into buying? These money-grubbing, self-absorbed men won't take no for an answer."
Talkin Broadway - Highly Recommended
"...Almost 30 years have passed since the premiere of Glengarry Glen Ross, but David Mamet's impassioned look at real-estate salesmen fueled by desperation is as vivid as ever. Round House Theatre in Bethesda, Maryland, and director Mitchell Hébert have brought together a group of fine individual actors who create lightning when they work off each other as an ensemble."
Washington City Paper - Recommended
"...Still, it's easy to watch a cast this fine clip through a piece of drama this good. What's surprising is how much additional resonance the piece hasn't acquired in 20 or 30 years. It's a great play by any measure, but a tectonic-level financial crisis, and Mamet's hard-right political shift, and even his Shelley Levene-like cold streak of late (his latest, The Anarchist, flopped on Broadway while an Al Pacino-anchored Glengarry revival packed in crowds just two doors down) now make it seem quaint. The Levenes and Romas of the world actually had to look us in the eye and put their sweaty palms in ours before they could bilk us out of our savings."
Washingtonian - Highly Recommended
"...To see Glengarry Glen Ross, currently playing in a strong production at Round House Theatre, is to see some of Washington's finest actors obviously relishing the chance to interact with one another as soulless douchebags. Alternating among casual racism, sexism, and the kind of language that you typically only hear at NASCAR events, the likes of Rick Foucheux, Alexander Strain, Conrad Feininger, and Jeff Allin embody their 1980s Chicago real estate agents with a sense of humor and joy that takes the edge off of David Mamet's cynical and downright bleak look at humanity."
DC Theater Arts - Highly Recommended
".. Round House Theatre’s current production of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross delivers a power-packed punch to the collective gut of the American working man’s psyche. As one watches this group of men trying to close on one shady deal after another, scramble for the “good” leads, and fight to win the top slot on the salesman’s board (and a prize Cadillac!), one can see playwright Mamet’s mastery of portraying the ruthlessness, back-stabbing and deviousness of this group of men trying to race to the top of the real estate game. Macho posturing, constant sports allusions, and psychological cruelty all congeal under as these pressure-driven characters deliver Mamet’s profane poetry."
DCTheatreScene - Highly Recommended
Spend one minute with this sweat-browed clan of real estate agents, racing at full gallop through this most wickedly entertaining of David Mamet’s dark comedies, and you’ll see right away that this ain’t their first rodeo. But if it’s yours, hold onto your armrests — Mamet’s crackling, stuttering, staccato playwriting bucks like a wild horse, and when you leap up onto a great production of his work you’re pressed to hold on as tightly as the actors.
