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Read the review in The Washington Times
And also reviewed by Potomac Stages

What the critics had to say...

"Did you ever wonder what Edward Albee's plays might be like if he had been Jewish? The thought comes to mind watching Deborah Zoe Laufer's The Last Schwartz, a battle royal among a Catskills clan gathered for the Yarzheit memorial of the family patriarch."

"When a new dramatist like Laufer comes along, it is reassuring to think that perhaps the theater still has a future."

In Laufer's "incendiary drama and wickedly self-deprecating humor . . . she shows herself to be a vital new voice for the theater willing to wade into potentially abrasive waters and skillful enough to cut the sting with laughter."

"It is easy to see one's own family in the Schwartzes' squabbles, regardless of your cultural roots."

~Palm Beach Post, Hap Erstein

"Deborah Zoe Laufer's The Last Schwartz is a beautifully crafted new play that weaves hilarity, mystery and loss into a resonant tale about a family's disintegration."

"The play is about any American family looking uncertainly toward the future . . . Though Laufer's themes are serious, her play is often riotously funny."

~The Miami Herald, Christine Dolen

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