The Sandstorm is a history play written by playwright and Iraq War veteran Sean Huze.
It received a "rave," an overwhelmingly positive review, from the Los Angeles Times calling the play "a heart clutching eye witness mosaic," and praised its "shocking force and awesome honesty".
[1] Due to first-time playwright and cast member Sean Huze being an active-duty Marine on leave, he returned to his duty station at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and the play's brief run closed in October 2004.
Ten days later, on March 17, 2005, The Sandstorm: Stories from the Front reopened in Los Angeles under the direction of David Fofi, produced by Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (known then as OpTruth), B.
Theater critic Terry Morgan for Backstage selecting the play as his "Critic's Pick" in the March 24, 2005 issue of Backstage in addition to writing a rave review in which he states, "This show, in addition to being well-done and undeniably affecting, honors the experiences—good and bad—of our soldiers in Iraq, and, in a time when everything concerning the war has long since been politicized into babble, it deserves to be seen and heard.