It's about time in Tina Landau's high-octane staging, The Time of Your Life comes into its own.(Critic's Notebook)(Theater Review)
American Theatre, April, 2004 by Berson, Misha
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The streetwalker with the proverbial heart of gold. The benevolent saloon-keeper. The neighborhood tavern where everybody knows your name--or at least, wants to know it. The American Dream: tattered, bruised, but not surrendered.
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Familiar and venerable elements of our native drama, all. But it was in the 1939 play The Time of Your Life that 30-year-old Armenian-American author William Saroyan crystallized them into what is arguably (with a nod to Eugene O'Neill's more somber The Iceman Cometh) the quintessential American Bar Play.
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