Reviewers have described their performance style as being "loosely structured" and "outrageous", more focused on the expression of ideas and themes than on theatrical conventions of the time and genre.
Their works are created collaboratively by the troupe, made up of Moe Angelos, Babs Davy, Dominique Dibbell, Peg Healey and Lisa Kron.
[1] The Five Lesbian Brothers started in the 1980s, first performing as satirists at the WOW Cafe in East Village, Manhattan and then producing the play Voyage to Lesbos there.
[1] The Secretaries was reviewed in The New York Times and earned the Brothers increased recognition and a successful production run.
[3] Whereas earlier plays had been produced for a more specialized audience at the WOW Cafe interested in feminist and lesbian topics, the production of Oedipus at Palm Springs was noted for its success with the more mainstream audience of "conventional white, middle-class New Yorkers" at the NYTW.