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American Hero – Reviews

Los Angeles Times
BUOYANT… [director] Eckhouse and the boundlessly funny actors find just the right tone for every scene” — Daryl H. Miller, Los Angeles Times

Stage Raw
A TOUR-DE-FORCE OF QUIRKY IRONY… tight and funny… executed with style and surprising urgency…. RECOMMENDEDSTAGE RAW TOP 10” — Paul Birchall, Stage Raw

Hollywood Progressive / People’s World 
“[A] 90-MINUTE ROMP through the opening (and closing) weeks of a new Tasty Torpedo outlet in some unnamed all-American mall… If you appreciate socially conscious theatre, try not to miss this one.” —Eric Gordon, Hollywood Progressive and People’s World

Southern California News Group  (Los Angeles Daily News, Pasadena Star-News, Orange County Register, etc.)
FUNNY, SAD, BITING AND HUMAN ALL AT ONCE… timing, character, intensity of action, and purpose…  a strong cast… a play worth seeing” — Frances Baum Nicholson, Southern California News Group

Stage and Cinema
SUPERB teamwork between the actors… [the] staging is FANTASTIC… approaches Pinteresque tragicomedy… no small achievement” — Samuel Garza Bernstein, Stage and Cinema

Will Call for Theater
REFRESHING LIVELY… four gifted actors… a lamentable topic in an upbeat production… you’ll never again bite into a Footlong Sub without remembering the gang at American Hero!” — Ingrid Wilmot, Will Call for Theater

Stage Scene LA
WOW!… a stealth comedic approach to show how little corporate America cares about anyone who’s not part of the 1%,,, IAMA at its hilarious, cutting-edge best.” — Steven Stanley, Stage Scene LA

Colorado Boulevard
EXCELLENT TIMING AND CHEMISTRY… kept me laughing throughout” — Carol Edger-Germain, Colorado Boulevard