Omnium Gatherum (play)

Directed by Will Frears, the cast featured Amir Arison, Jenny Bacon, Phillip Clark (Roger), Melanna Gray (Julia), Edward A. Hajj, Kristine Nielsen (Suzie), Dean Nolen (Terence), and Joseph Lyle Taylor.

"[8] A sophisticated and sometimes surreal dinner party in Manhattan becomes a sounding board for a variety of cultural icons as they pontificate and argue about capitalism, terrorism, popular culture, feminism, food, wealth, heroism, morality, Eastern meditation, Star Trek, and justice.

Ben Brantley in his review in The New York Times wrote: "It is indeed a comédie à clef of sorts, with characters inspired by Martha Stewart, the journalist Christopher Hitchens, the novelist Tom Clancy and Edward Said... What makes the play sing and sting is its radical yet perfectly organic shifts in tone.

Tragedy and triviality, ponderousness and pettiness are mixed into a salad so deliriously tossed that you can't separate the individual ingredients.

"[9] Charles Isherwood, reviewing for Variety, wrote: "They and their sharp cast deliver a bubbly 90 minutes of entertainment as the play skillfully spices its middlebrow TV-chat-show essence with infusions of boldly orchestrated comedy.