"3/5 stars...The show doesn't really get going until the first mother-daughter debate...Ziemba treats Kitty's monologues like delicious arias...Later, a newly matured Vivie makes the case for a different kind of independence for women...It's in these poignant and intellectually exciting exchanges that 'Mrs. Warren's Profession' becomes more than its moral."
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"The show is completely satisfying, and the play gains immeasurably from up-close presentation."
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"Karen Ziemba brilliantly embodies the bare-knuckled practicality of Kitty Warren, who bucks the same system that she eventually becomes a part of."
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"A surprisingly light-footed affair...It does indeed entertain, but it seems as though Shaw's contemporary, Oscar Wilde, has been invited to the party this time around."
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"Staller has chosen to direct the play as drawing room comedy (which it is) but has scrimped on the tension and the dramatic high points which are rather important. As stylish as it is, the play seems to be all on one level even with its startling revelations. This diminishes some of the actors’ fine work, aside from their expertise with the comedy’s droll bon mots."
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Shaw wrote [the play] in 1893, shockingly ahead of its time, and arguably in sync with our own,....Yet [the Gingold production] didn’t feel timely to me; It felt out of touch, a mannered exercise in dated social commentary.
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"In a fine-tuned cast, Huynh energizes each moment he’s in. Ziemba, a Tony Award winner for the dance-driven Contact, makes a robust and merry Mrs. W, while King lends the right notes of prickliness and steely self-possession as her daughter. Their sweet-and-sour contrast works. The star of the show is the play itself. It no longer shocks, but it still tickles the brain."
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