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CRITICAL PRAISE FOR "MONO"

"The cast of MONO leads a new generation of Cutting Edge Theatre... Tanenbaum's creative use of the space obliterates the wall between audience and performer..."
- Show Business Weekly(Cover article 09/26/01)

"It's shocking, engaging, and the kind of off-the-beaten-track theatre for which New York is notorious." - Where Magazine

"...It is an experience you do not want to miss if you are bored of typical theatre." - New York Theatre Review.com

"This has got to be one of the hippest and funkiest new plays around...a modern cult classic." - High5 (200,000 member theatre arts organization for teens in the tri-state area)

"Steven Tanenbaum's long running cult hit transforms Surf Reality into a local bar for 13 unsavory characters to get drunk, high, heartbroken and burned out." - Time Out [link to the full review]

"...engaging, promising sample of a new, fresh, lively kind of theatre." - NYPost [link to the full review]

"Tanenbaum's sincerity is thorough and powerful, his simple, good intentions showing through with remarkable clarity..." - Village Voice

"Whether for the snappy dialogue, the sincere delivery, the unpredictable clockwork of the ensemble or the strikingly surreal sensation of the whole-every true New Yorker should catch Mono."
- The Village Gazette [link to the full review]

"A potent statement about the lonely singlehood of many New Yorkers…a triumph." - NYTheatre.com [link to the full review]

Don't expect the typical Lower East Side "I only wear black" angst here. These characters are way beyond therapy. In between laughs, Mono will make you glad that you're only young, and desperate, once. - Citysearch.com(rated 10 out of 10) [link to the full review]

"...uplifting new play...explores modern forms of communication––verbal and physical, immediate and long distance––between strangers and between friends. Many of them cling to the phrase "this is my night" even as they lose their grip on the path of the evening and are forced to face their delusions, fears, and futures." - Columbia Spectator [link to the full review]