MilkMilkLemonade - Reviews

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New York Press - MilkMilkLemonade Voted Best Off-Off-Broadway Show 2009
"Tucked away in the basement theater of Under St. Mark’s, MilkMilkLemonade opened to rave reviews (including ours) in September. An angry, bitter and very funny play about growing up gay in middle America, playwright Joshua Conkel and director Isaac Butler have taken the limitations of the space and their budget and transformed them into theatrical gold. This is the kind of political show from up-and-comers you want but rarely get when you think Downtown theater."

New York Post- MilkMilkLemonade mentioned as one of the Best Ensembles of 2009

New York Press: "A welcome breath of fresh downtown air...I could fill an entire review just quoting my favorite lines...Isaac Butler and his brilliant cast have taken his lines and situations and run with them...there’s very little better than MilkMilkLemonade anywhere south of 14th Street."

Blogcritics: "One of the funniest shows in town right now is also one of the most searching. Joshua Conkel's MilkMilkLemonade is a rollicking, twisting, and twisted coming-of-age tale that's also, thanks to an excellent cast and Isaac Butler's boisterous, assured direction, pretty slick for an Off Off Broadway production."

Broadway World: "Joshua Conkel's brilliant new play MilkMilkLemonade is the hilariously absurd and moving tale...The whole cast is great...A must-see."

nytheatre.com: "it feels like something Edward Albee might have written for a pair of 10-year-old protagonists. Conkel's play is bitterly funny and broadly satiric, abetted in both of these achievements by director Isaac Butler's superbly accomplished production of it."

New York Post: "Clearly the show is on to something. And that something is old-fashioned stuff like, you know, a funny and poignant play, inventive direction and ace acting. In the end theater isn't much more than this, and it shouldn't be any less."

TimeOutNY: Four Star Review "Conkel and director Isaac Butler are unafraid to go for the belly: They want you laughing, nauseated or both. It’s proof of how desperately comedy needs audacity: Here, as on your average chicken farm, only the plucky survive."Also included in "Your Perfect Weekend Sep. 25-27"

OffOffOnline: "a smart new comedy from The Management...we are given a comedy infused with all the quiet seriousness and whimsy of preadolescence...played with unwavering integrity by the talented cast."

Theatre is Easy: "Watching MilkMilkLemonade is like taking in an episode of Sesame Street hosted by the guy from Blue's Clues singing Schoolhouse Rock tunes while tripping on LSD."

Backstage: "the campy kind of ridiculousness that allows Conkel to delve into the darker side of childhood...Butler's brisk direction milks the script for all it's worth...the talented cast serves up scintillating performances."
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