"...put on by the people at Bottom's Dream, a company that stages about one play per year. Prolific they're not, but they compensate with a kind of devotion and attention to detail that makes each of their productions an event. Furthermore, they work with playwrights - Margraff, Mac Wellman, Erik Ehn - whose proclivity for abstract, poetical language seems calculated to incense audiences who have come to rely on linear plots and stock psychological motivations."
- Steven Leigh Morris, LA Weekly - The Elektra Fugues
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"From its fine work with this production, it's hard to think of a better company to stage it..."
- Karen Fricker, L.A. Times Review - Terminal Hip by Mac Wellman
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"This is something rare: surrealism done not by attention hungry amateurs but by professionals working hungrily on the fringe."
- LA READER - Tiny Dimes by Peter Mattei
Top 10 Plays, Smaller Theatre
- Don Shirley, L.A. Times - 7 Blowjobs by Mac Wellman
The LA Times called our constant collaborator, playwright Erik Ehn, an "obviously gifted wordsmith, one whose nonlinear, hallucinatory imagery can alternately amuse and disturb....a scientist gone mad in the laboratory of language"
-LA Times - Erotic Curtsies
"Bottom's Dream, a company that thrives on the unusual."
- RAVE! Review of Lesser Magoo