Washington Post - Recommended
"...Although that first act makes for an appealing table setter, "Love, Love, Love" gets cooking when the knives come out after its time jumps. (The play is staged in Studio's Shargai Theatre with two intermissions.) The first one takes the tale to 1990, when Kenneth and Sandra have morphed into 42-year-old parents plodding through middle-class malaise. Here we meet their kids: Jamie (Max Jackson), their troublemaking 14-year-old son, and Rose, an aspiring violinist whose 16th birthday arrives amid an explosion of boy trouble and familial fireworks. By the time the 2011-set final act arrives, Kenneth and Sandra have built lives of empty-nesting bliss while their mid-30s children remain imprisoned to arrested development."
DC Theater Arts - Recommended
"...Love, Love, Love begins and ends with the Beatles - specifically, "All You Need Is Love," from which playwright Mike Bartlett lifts the title of his decades-spanning trip through progressive disillusionment. Under the direction of David Muse, Studio Theatre's production expertly meets the psychological and social insight of Bartlett's play. The only problem, really, is that it plays a tune we've heard before."
Talkin Broadway - Highly Recommended
"...David Muse's direction seems to magnify the force of the actors' performances, as if their passions are too intense for the scenery to contain. After all, the play begins at a time of upheaval, as Henry follows the status quo while Ken and Sandra are propelled forward by new music (The Beatles, of course), new fashions, and the sense that they are part of a generation that will change the world in 10 years."
Washington City Paper - Somewhat Recommended
"...“We’re going to die, you know.” This universal truth is a repeated refrain in every act of Love, Love, Love, now playing at Studio Theatre, and that nihilistic underpinning powers the decades-traversing show. The plot follows Sandra (Liza Bennett) and Kenneth (Max Gordon Moore) from the time they’re teenagers in the late 1960s, to raising a family in the 1980s, to the 2000s when they’re retired and their kids are grown. The family dynamics are true to life, and the play offers some food for thought about generation gaps and the unsustainability of idealism. There are plenty of charismatic performances and funny moments, but a middling script doesn’t quite cohere into something more meaningful."
Stage and Cinema - Highly Recommended
"..."Love" appears three times in the title of this three-act play, and there are three separate time periods and settings, all of which are directed with solid, assured focus by David Muse, impressively in his 14th year as Studio Theatre Artistic Director. Written by the prolific British playwright Mike Bartlett - best-known on this side of the Pond for King Charles III (Broadway 2015) and Cock (another successful production for Studio Theater in 2014 and 2021) - the 2010 Love, Love, Love premiered in NY in a 2016 Off-Broadway production by Roundabout."
MD Theatre Guide - Recommended
"...Of all the generations to have reached consciousness in American life over the past century, few seem to have had more consistent enmity towards each other than the baby boomers and their millennial children. Much of that narrative vein has been mined over the years as new generations have started to pull the spotlight, but Studio Theatre’s “Love, Love, Love” will still give audiences of any generation plenty to think about."
BroadwayWorld - Highly Recommended
"...Minus an overt statement, it's sure fun to watch the melodrama play out in the extremely close quarters of Studio's Victor Shargai Theatre, where three detailed, entirely different sets by Alexander Woodward, unfold like beautiful nesting dolls behind a fast-rising curtain. The first is an appropriately cramped '60s flat; the next a bigger and busy family landing where kids stomp off yelling. The third is a roomier-still, well-appointed but spiritually empty condo well outside the city."
