"there’s something original going on here."- Dallas Morning News"Amazingly meticulous. The production feels seamless. Joey Folsom simply inhabits Jasper."-Art & Seek"Director David Denson has given the show a slow, relaxed pace, which feels appropriate to the gargantuan emptiness Jasper, KJ and Evan are struggling with. It’s like we’re watching three men on an enormous ship with a leak. They can’t decide whether to fix or ignore it."-The Examiner.com"It works because the more things change, the more they stay the same. ... and Baker’s script is a testament to that. And Denson and his cast have found a companion in the text that they, in turn, give a deafening, yet ultimately unheard, voice to."- TheaterJones.com"As important as the dialogue, however, is the silence, which director David Denson uses as an inextricable part of the narrative. The show lulls the audience into a state of complicity; any initial disgust with the two deadbeats who hang out by trash cans is suspended with Jasper's first nervous cigarette flick. Upstart Productions mines these moments for stage gold."- Culture Map
Return of the Upstarts? After Disappearing From Dallas Theater, a Once-Lauded Young Company Re-Launches- TheaterJones.comThe Play's The Thing.- Central Track
