NEW YORK TIMES:
"But the playwrights, Stephen Bergman, a doctor and novelist, and his wife, Janet Surrey, a clinical psychologist, are less committed to the idea of Wilson as a revolutionary thinker than to the notion that the recovery movement’s central catechism essentially came about as a series of accidents."
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NEW YORK POST:
"Who would have guessed a drama about the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous would be the laugh riot of the year? But that's the unfortunate result of "Bill W. and Dr. Bob," the well-intentioned but haplessly executed effort..."
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VARIETY:
"As blunt as it is, this proselytizing is almost charming because the show plays like an old-time comedy. Dressed in natty period clothes -- crisp suits and towering high heels -- thesps fire off dialogue with machine-gun pacing, and their broad physical choices make them goofy and likeable. We hear talk of alcohol's consequences and even see a few moments of violence, but real problems always seem distant."
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THEATERMANIA:
"Nevertheless, Bergman and Surrey's script will likely lead to future productions, especially by amateur and AA groups everywhere. The birth of Alcoholics Anonymous may not be the greatest story every told, but without question it's one of the greatest 20th-century stories -- even when it isn't told greatly."
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TIME OUT NY:
"But in Stephen Bergman and Janet Surrey’s odd new play, equal parts historical reenactment, cautionary tale and screwball comedy, the title characters’ journeys are reduced to a series of broad, melodramatic episodes, like a drunk remembering snippets of his life between blackouts.—"
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