Some
Recent Press Raves
“The
Verse-Play Champion” – Michael Feingold,
Village Voice, 2005
“Very
impressive! A nonstop parade of puns, tweaked aphorisms,
and linguistic gymnastics…a barrage of jokes
that hit more than they miss.” - The New York
Times, 2005
“If you prize the kind of theatre where language
flexes its muscles to challenge your intellect,
where pure poetry produces gasp-inducing flights
of fancy, where ideas leap ingeniously all over
the stage making connections you never quite saw
before—then this is the show you will want
to see this month.”- nytheatre.com, 2005
“Poignant and thrilling…egregiously
absurd…the inspired blocking and choreography
keep things lively.” - The Village Voice,
2005
"Kirk's
writing is some of the most crafted, interesting
stuff in the New
York theater. And it's almost as much fun to read
his plays as it is to see them -- he's one of the
few playwrights
whose
work can be considered literature." - Robert
Lopez, Tony-Award winning composer of Avenue Q.
"With
'The Banger's Flopera,' Inverse brings utter and
unmistakable excitement back to the theater. Over
and above the intelligence of the show, it's exciting,
energizing and an incredible relief to find that
there are still passionate and thoughtful artists
working in the theater." - Chris Byrne, Theater
Editor, Gay City News, 2005
“So many quippy, quotable lines, they fell
off my notepad.” – LA Weekly, 2004
"It sparkles and shines. It rants and raves.
Its language is sublime." - The New York Times,
2003
"Kirk Bromley is one of the most intrepid,
visionary playwrights working in New York today.
His work should be produced."
- Greg Kotis, Tony Award-winning author of Urinetown
"Shakespeare on mushrooms!" - L.A. Weekly
(Recommended!), 2004
“Near perfect!" - L.A. Times (Recommended!),
2004
"Smart, original and bizarrely funny!"
- L.A. Splash, 2004
"Unique and vivid... extremely entertaining!"
-Maestro Arts & Reviews, 2004
"Irreverent, timely, fast-paced and funny!"
- Pasadena Weekly, 2004
"Bromley's script ... fairly bursts with inventiveness,
comic wordplay, and Shakespearean riffs." Cleveland
Scene, 2004
“The Best Musical in the Fringe!” –
Time Out New York, 2003
“Inventive drama…perfect!” –
The New Yorker, 2003
“Intense originality and passionate intelligence”
– NYTheatre.com, 2003
“A quite extraordinarily brilliant piece of
theater” – What’s On London, 2002
“Full of lyricism and a fair amount of humor”
- The New York Times, 2002
“Theatre at its best” - TalkingBroadway.com,
2002
“For originality, clarity and depth of vision,
humor, and utter humanity, who can match this big-souled
poet?” - NYTheatre.com, 2002
“The Vanguard Versifier!” - Village
Voice, 2002
“A talented up-and-comer.” - Time Out
New York, 2002
“A brilliant barrage of wordplay and low comedy...exceptional.”
- San Francisco Bay Guardian, 2001
“An overflowing smorgasbord of verbiage and
imagination...” - Time Out New York, 2000
“…Bromley is beyond reproach.”
- Show Business, 1999
“Bromley writes with witty bite and bawdy
flair …a wonderful blend of wordsmithing and
wackiness.” - LA Times, 1999
“A bona-fide modern classic…”
- LA Weekly, 1999
“Remarkably intelligent… complex…witty…could
be on a comparative Shakespeare class syllabus.”
- Time Out New York, 1998
“Extraordinary... brilliant...breathtaking...exhilarating.”
- NYTheatre.com, 1998
“Bromley is the beloved Bard of Downtown theater.”
- New York Magazine, 1998
“Startlingly clever and wise; in comparison,
all prose plays seem facile.” - Back Stage,
1997
“Stoppard squeal, and set your pen to squirm!
/ Bromley would your match be, term for term.”
- The Village Voice, 1997
“This verse play speaks directly to its audience’s
concerns and in its dialect.” - American Theater
Magazine, 1996
"Banger's is the quintessential counter-culture
acid rock and rap musical that is filled with brilliant
word play, flaunts metaphors about the stage, and
shocks its audience to the point of numbness with
an assertive style in performance across the board
that would render Max Bialystock of Broadway's The
Producers or even Brecht and Weill's own version
of MacHeath as wimps by comparison." - CurtainUp.com,
2005
"Fiercely political...shattering and unsettling...a
celebration of excess...a post-apocalyptic anti-drug
theme park filled with animatronics." - talkinbroadway.com,
2005
"Great talent! Topnotch! Real flashes of brilliance!"
- The New York Sun, 2005
PICK OF THE WEEK! - "Offensive. Appalling.
Dirty. Vulgar. Inappropriate. Obscene. Brilliant.
It is not to be missed." - offoffonline.com,
2005
"...surely one of the most overtly raunchy,
in-your-face-assailing shows ever put up at FringeNYC."
- nytheatre.com, 2005
"An uncommonly talented cast" - Time Out
NY, 2005
"The band rocks the house." - hyreviews.com,
2005
