The Pajama Game Reviews
Washington Post- Highly Recommended
"..."The Pajama Game" is the 1954 musical comedy featuring "Steam Heat," a sexy, tightly wired number for three dancers that helped put a young Bob Fosse on the map. It springs naturally out of a show that's sort of about labor relations - the workers in a pajama factory need a raise - but is really about office romances, namely between new supervisor Sid Sorokin and grievance-committee head Babe Williams."
DC Theater Arts- Highly Recommended
"...The Pajama Game is a classic, a Broadway mega-hit with themes and tunes as timely as today's news."
MetroWeekly- Recommended
"...Audible gasps and wolf whistles greet Tim Rogan’s entrance, shirtless, in the show-closing title number of the rollicking Golden Age musical The Pajama Game. By that time, Rogan, possessed of greater assets than just a chiseled physique, has earned healthy rounds of applause from the Arena Stage audience, for his winning, wonderfully sung turn as lovestruck factory superintendent Sid Sorokin.'
Talkin Broadway- Highly Recommended
"...Arena Stage in Washington and director Alan Paul have created a thoroughly delightful production of The Pajama Game, anchored by Parker Esse's imaginative choreography and a strong cast packed with Broadway veterans and one legend."
MD Theatre Guide- Highly Recommended
"...The singing on the musical numbers is well done, however, and the dancing choreographed by Parker Esse was fun and quite creative at times - think bolts of fabric and hula hoops! Individually, many of the actors give engaging performances. Those bright spots, combined with the song and dance numbers and the amazing costumes, wigs, and sets, would be enough to lead me to recommend "The Pajama Game" at Arena Stage - but Nancy Anderson's stunningly hilarious routine at "Hernando's Hideaway" leads me to strongly recommend that you don't miss her performance."
DCTheatreScene- Highly Recommended
"...But The Pajama Game holds up surprisingly well as 2017 fare - for better or worse - and Arena Stage's production knowingly winks at many of those contemporary connections. Casual workplace sexism that should feel decades old sadly feels jarringly familiar again (and lines like "you're the cutest grievance committee I've ever had to deal with" land differently post-Weinstein). Relationships today are still tested when couples fight for opposite sides and face clashing values. And didn't we just see an entire media company broken up after rumblings of unionization bubbled to the surface?"
BroadwayWorld- Highly Recommended
"...If you only have a "Once a Year Day" at the theater, please consider making The Pajama Game at Arena Stage your yearly choice. It isn't performed a whole lot and, in this case, it's a first-rate production. You'll exclaim "Hey There!! That was great!!""