Harker Jones – BroadwayWorld
The West Coast premiere of Erik Gernand’s THE TOTALITY OF ALL THINGS is a searing look at morals, ethics, and the gray areas that can be found in even the most honest truths. Read more…
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw
……the play’s denouement provokes the same kind of frustration one encounters when reading yet another disquisition in the mainstream press about the need for progressives to probe the reasons, and make allowances, for the bigots on the other side. Read more…
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA
This is not a time for forgiveness, I fear. There are not, as the Orange Traitor Tot said of Charleston white nationalists a few years ago, “some fine people on both sides.” I understand how and why playwright Erik Gernand has attempted to make the inhabitants of this insular midwestern enclave basically good but misguided people caught up in a situation beyond their worldliness, but instead he delivers an unintended missive about condonation I personally cannot shrug off. Read more…