THE STAR LEDGER_________________________
"When a play has this familiar-feeling a plot, it had better offer a good deal of charm. Baron made sure his play has it. Coupled with director Jonathan Fox's well-honed production,"Visiting Mr. Green" worked like a charm on opening night, too."
"Both actors' expert abilities made the audience listen with...much rapt attention. It was all played on Neil Prince's roomy set -- the type of super-spacious New York apartment that a person has only if he's 86 years old, moved in 59 years ago, and never left."
"Ben Hammer was cantankerous and lumbering as his (Serotsky's) nemesis...He then calibrated his performance to advance to avuncular, and then to paternal. Then, when Ross said something he couldn't begin to embrace, he brought out his terrible swift sword."
"The play is well worth a visit before its Nov. 20 closing."
THE NEW YORK TIMES________________________
"Visiting Mr. Green"...ran for almost a year Off Broadway in the late 1990's and is currently receiving a crisp and gently winning production...by the Two River theater Company. If you had to have an uninvited visitor every week, Aaron Serotsky's Ross would make the ideal buttinsky. Mr. Serotsky conveys gunuine caring without ever making Ross appear condescending or overbearing.
As for Mr. Green, the accomplished Ben Hammer infuses a believable Old World simplicity into (his) character...Hammer's achievement as Mr. Green is that he...slyly let(s) his audience glimpse the pain inside a man whose protective shell has been stripped away."
THE TWO RIVER TIMES _______________________
"Mr. Green's apartment is the very model of a pre-war tenement walkup...It's an excellent rendering by designer Neil Prince; the mess is realistic, as are the old kitchen cabinets and other fixtures."
"...as well acted and directed as it is here, Jeff Baron's play...is easy to like."
"Hammer is a master of unspoken expression as well as of Green's ferocious defense of his traditional values."
"Director Jonathan Fox is winding down his long association with Two river, and Visiting Mr. Green will remain a values memory among his efforts."
ASBURY PARK PRESS _________________________
" 'Mr. Green'is worth visiting at Red Bank's Two River Theater."
"...undeniably (a) heartfelt crowd-pleaser."
"Hammer has at his disposal a toolbox of skillful touches — a bit of comic business here, a sobering outburst there — that change the dynamic of a scene as if a river current had been reversed by the mallet of Thor itself."
www.talkinbroadway.com____________________
“Visiting Mr. Green has the delightful habit of sneaking up on you. During the course of its performance, it shifts repeatedly into higher gear, so that by the time the second act arrives, it is all geared up to sweep audiences completely into its thrall.”
“...Jeff Baron has written a popular entertainment with depth and intelligence. The Two River Theatre Company has in turn provided his play with a first-class production.”
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