Pocatello at Playwrights Horizons

The New York Times - Somewhat Recommended

"...As staged by Mr. McCallum, "Pocatello" has compelling theatrical energy only when its scrapping characters talk over one another, evoking that anxious smog of restaurant noise that hangs over so many American nights out. It's when the individual voices assert themselves that the play can feel as droopy as the defeated souls who inhabit it."

NY Daily News - Somewhat Recommended

"...Round and round it goes, with everyone conveniently showing up at the restaurant, which doubles as a crash pad, after-hours booty-call spot and family base camp. As a comment on hard times and the way we live now, Hunter, a newly minted MacArthur "Genius" grant recipient, serves a topical but not so illuminating work."

Hollywood Reporter - Somewhat Recommended

"...However, in terms of its cumulative poignancy, Pocatello is underwhelming. As affecting as Knight is, Eddie's prostrate supplication becomes distancing. He's never able to articulate the reasons why he shouldn't pack up and transfer to a job at another branch of the restaurant in a bigger town where he might even have a shot at a fulfilling relationship. That, of course, is part of the point, but the reluctance to put it into words makes his anguish somewhat frustrating. And his closing moment of tentative connection lacks pathos because it involves a cold person whom we've been given no reason to care about."

TheaterMania - Recommended

"...Hunter has created an intimate portrait not only of fading small-town life, but of the overall "blanding" of America. With perceptive observations of how we work, survive, and love in the 21st century, Pocatello captures this moment in American history with eloquence and massive amounts of heart."