“ Wyndham paints a powerful portrait of two women with ferocious, desperate, mutual need who are tragically unable to connect. Both are drawn with painstaking specificity and could, with just a touch more self-awareness, be deliciously comic instead of devastatingly lost. ”

“ Poignant and regrettably timely, or perhaps in our America timeless. A subtle and effective portrait of a father who only wants to protect his kids and yet is clearly ambivalent about the way he and his wife have chosen to protect them. He is a man facing the burden of only having bad choices. ”

“ TEACH offers a riveting examination of gender and power dynamics between a teacher and student as issues of attraction and nurturing, responsibility and manipulation come to the fore. Hoke's exploration of gender in having a male and female teacher figure and a male and female student figure interact in varied configurations is far, far more than a theatrical device, although it is also spectacularly effective as a device. The cautionary figure of the principal who never gets beyond manipulation and self-absorption provides a compelling foil and effectively represents systemic shortcomings. All in all, a work that demands to be staged. ”

“ A surprisingly complex, while still richly comic exploration of the ways the stories we tell about our lives and tell ourselves about our lives shape those lives. The play looks carefully at the need to be true to one's artistic vision while also being honest about the cost that has for others in our lives. There are comic heights in the depiction of the writing process and, perhaps most compellingly, there are issues and aspects of character left unresolved. ”