Barefoot In The Park Reviews
Chicago Reader- Somewhat Recommended
"...Fortunately, the production does have Donaldson Cardenas and Jill Chukerman Test as the older foils. Cardenas plays Victor Velasco, the Bratters’ eccentric upstairs neighbor, with a precise blend of bohemian bonhomie and shoulder-shrugging fatalism. Chukerman Test as Ethel Banks, Corie’s widowed mother, turns what could be a standard-issue fish-out-of-water suburban matron into a warm and sympathetic woman, with just enough steel in her spine to remind me at times of Shirley MacLaine’s Aurora Greenway in Terms of Endearment."
Around The Town Chicago- Recommended
"...It is difficult not to love a Neil Simon comedy, but compared to his classic “The Odd Couple” and his other, biographical stories ( “Boynton Beach Memoirs for example), “Barefoot in the Park” is pretty bland and perhaps even far-fetched. The story is about a young couple Corie (played to perfection by Alexandra T. Cross) and Paul ( Joshua Paul Wright), who are just starting their married life. They have rented an apartment on the top-floor of a brownstone in New York. It is a “walk-Up” apartment. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, it means there is NO elevator, only stairs. In this case, either 6 or 7 flights, depending on whether you count the stoop."