"The Maryland Stage Company's production...captures the play's essence...When [Ty] Jones is on stage, you can't take your eyes off him, which is precisely as it should be...other elements of the production are beatifully conceived, particularly the stylish costumes and sleek set by Elena Zlotescu."

"As its third annual summer offering at Center Stage, the Maryland Stage Company has mounted a most ambitious production of Guare's s 1990 work. Director Xerxes Mehta and his professional troupe based at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County return the emphasis to where it belongs--on our enthusiasm for hearing stories and our willingness to believe in them."

"For a dozen years now, The Maryland Stage Company, with its talent base in the faculty ranks of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, has been wowing summer theatre audiences and critics alike with their innovative takes on theatre masterpieces. Much of the acclaim comes from Mr. Mehta's breakthrough ability to reinterpret the classics, with solid support from a company of actors whose talents match that vision, and a design team that always seems to hit the right chords...Elena Zlotescu's set and costume design is breathtaking...Matthew Frey's lighting design is similarly staggering in its excellence...Playwright Guare's title phrase "six degrees of separation" describes the phenomenon of a shrinking world where any random two people can discover a link through a chain of six acquaintances. It's a hauntingly compelling concept, and with the Internet now at the disposal of humans everywhere, it's nearly spellbinding. The play embodies the awesome quality of the statistic, and this Maryland Stage Company production finds a highly stylized, at times raucously funny, yet ultimately poignant way of stating its potential result."

"Best of 1999"

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