Tail! Spin! at Lynn Redgrave Theater

The New York Times - Recommended

"...Ms. Dratch is particularly funny as Ms. Walters, who apparently came late to the digital party that has proved to be not so much fun for American politicians. "Is this tweet working?" she tweeted, preparing to promote her interview with Mr. Sanford's wife, Jenny. Yes, Barbara, it's working. So is that pesky Internet. You'd hope our elected officials would have figured this out by now. But, as Barbara might once have said, stay tuned."

NY Daily News - Recommended

"...Directed by Dan Knechtges ("Lysistrata Jones"), the show now boasts snazzier production values. But the conceit remains exactly the same. The script, tweaked since Fringe, is constructed from verbatim speeches, press conferences, interviews and boneheaded texts and e-mails from four sleazy pols."

Hollywood Reporter - Highly Recommended

"...Much like Forbidden Broadway, this seems the sort of show that can run a long time with frequent revisions since it doesn't appear likely that politicians are going to learn to keep it in their pants anytime soon."

Vulture - Recommended

"...But it's Rachel Dratch, playing the female characters - "wives, tails, beards, and Barbara Walters" - who really anchors and deepens the material. As Suzanne Craig, Huma Abedin, and Jenny Sanford, she offers an ever-changing catalogue of frozen smiles; narcotized sound bites; overeager sanctimony; and, in the case of Ginger Lee, Weiner's pole-dancing betrayer, dimwit hypocrisy. (Come to think of it, those traits all describe her famous Walters imitation, too.) Interviewing Jenny Sanford, switching voices line by line, Dratch reveals Walters as just another confused apologist for the male status quo. "I mean, do you blame yourself at all?" she asks, as if the wife of the man who requested her permission to sleep with his Argentine lover were somehow at fault for what happened. Jenny Sanford responds incredulously, "Do I blame myself? No." Finally someone said it."

TheaterMania - Recommended

"...The Lynn Redgrave Theater is set up for a presidential debate. Four wooden chairs sit behind a lectern. The Declaration of Independence and the Stars and Stripes are projected on an upstage wall. A deep red carpet blankets the thrust stage. A giant bald eagle statue with six-pack abs presides above. This is the soberly patriotic settling in which Mario Correa's delightfully irreverent Tail! Spin! comes to life."