The cast also included Bobby Steggert, John Behlmann, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Tom Riis Farrell, Tim Intravia, Kate O'Phalen, and Jacob Hoffman.
[5] When Betty signs up for a summer timeshare with her garrulous mate, Trudy, she is in need of peace and quiet to contrast her stressful life as a single, city-dwelling young woman of the '90s.
Playbill observed that " 'Betty's Summer Vacation' represented playwright Christopher Durang's biggest critical success in years when it premiered Off Broadway in 1999 under Nicholas Martin's direction.
Brantley went on to write "Please welcome Mr. Durang back to the ranks of America's liveliest living playwrights....What Mr. Martin and his crack cast...provide is a pure physical charge of pathological energy that comes from highly animated human presences.
"[6] The reviewer of the Huntington Theatre Company production for Boston Phoenix,com wrote that the play "seems both merrily horrifying and a little silly.... 'Betty’s Summer Vacation', albeit too Court TV-specific in the second act for its own shelf life, may be the pinnacle of the audacious lampoonery in which he [Durang] specializes."