The Inheritance Reviews

Washington Post- Highly Recommended

"...Structurally, "The Inheritance" is both wildly ambitious and practically bulletproof. Leaps in time are accomplished with easy grace; Forster is not just a source but a character - a muse, really, who steps onstage to coach the play's chorus of youngish gay creatives as they try to imagine dramatizing their still-unfolding lives."

DC Theater Arts- Highly Recommended

"...Round House Theatre’s production of The Inheritance is a thrilling and awe-inspiring combination of poetic, evocative writing and daring performances by a cast whose honed voices and bodies engage rigorously with the important temporal and spiritual issues raised in the play."

MetroWeekly- Highly Recommended

"...But Round House's exquisite production of Matthew Lopez's sweeping gay opus The Inheritance, directed by Tom Story, elicits such strong emotions. Also, the play, split into two separate parts, each over three hours, has plenty of time to work its magic."

Washington City Paper- Highly Recommended

"...The Inheritance is a play-within-a-play; it begins when the spirit of Forster, a closeted gay man who died in 1970 at the age of 91, arrives in a limbo-like room of young men suffering from writer's block. With his impetus, they weave together the story of three generations of gay men grappling with issues of class, identity, creativity, and loss-especially in the shadow of the '80s AIDS crisis."

BroadwayWorld- Highly Recommended

"...The Inheritance (as in the title of the same award-winning epic play now being presented in a moving and masterly production at Bethesda’s Round House Theatre) is the legacy that must be respected, remembered and passed on from generation to generation so that a record of the tortuous winding road of LGBTQ history can never be forgotten or erased."