Skeleton Crew Reviews
DC Theater Arts- Recommended
"...Patricia McGregor is the acclaimed director who has brought Skeleton Crew alive. Working closely with Dramaturg Lauren Halvorsen and Assistant Director Manna-Symone Middlebrooks, McGregor has assembled a team that incorporates dream elements and plenty of action into what might otherwise have been a static play."
MetroWeekly- Highly Recommended
"...The third in the playwright's cycle of plays examining eras that transformed her Motor City hometown, Skeleton Crew opens Studio Theatre's Main Series season with a must-see performance by D.C. native Clay in the lead role. Clay plants both feet firmly inside the dusty Timberlands of this hard-working black woman and survivor who perhaps overestimates her invulnerability, the way that many self-sufficient folk tend to do."
DCTheatreScene- Recommended
"...Director Patricia McGregor helms a grounded, empathetic production, from the attentively authentic breakroom set designed by Tim Brown to the honestly-rendered performances. The in-sync ensemble gives life to the personal crisis each character is passing through and expresses that uncertainty with a natural ease. Puzzlingly, some plot-specific storylines in the play are left unclear, but that's excusable, as the frank time spent with these characters in their breakroom sanctuary as they work out their next moves provides the most profit."
BroadwayWorld- Somewhat Recommended
"...Skeleton Crew has all the makings of a great drama: vibrant characters, crackling dialogue, and an engaging and identifiable story, which is why it is such a shame that the play fails to achieve the heart wrenching effect of the aforementioned, Sweat or Arthur Miller's Death of Salesman. Morisseau certainly has well-founded ambitions for this play. The decline of American manufacturing and the effect on the American worker is as ripe a topic for the stage as ever, but a clumsy plot filled with unnecessary plotlines, and an inherent cynicism, prevents the play from reaching its full potential."