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Honest and moving. In this day of shock theater its daring to write an honest relationship play and Terry Ray has done it. He captures the confusion, self-loathing, emotional baggage and tenderness between two men in love. With no simple answers he shows different sides of masculinity with one man tender and shy the other bawdy and confrontational. Together they show as opposites but at a deeper level there is a need for caring that draws them back year after year in spite of their own bewilderment.... full review

A Hetero couple, married to others but meeting periodically, spoofs social trends as years pass and they mature. SAME TIME NEXT YEAR was a career peak for Ellen Burstyn 40 years ago (!), so why shouldn't the same framework be appropriated for a Gay version? Now it has been, by a trio of showbiz pros! It doesn't fit a Gay couple quite as smoothly, because there's a lot more at stake for them (including a brush with life-or-death AIDS), and a decade between meetings seems too artificial. The first act is the strongest (and could be a stand-alone one-act), but as their lives progress there are tears AND laughs in almost equal measure. The two stars, TERRY RAY (also the playwright) and KEVIN SCOTT ALLEN, are excellent---they've had a lot of e... full review

Respectable, generic gay version of "Same Time Next Year." An affair over the decades, without the kind of real sexual (or sexual-and-romantic) heat that would have made it compelling. Chemistry in a piece like this is everything, and, while the actors were respectable, the relationship remained tame, and the overview of gay life yielded no fresh insights about AIDS angsts, the closet, yearnings for unavailable bad-boys and fear of intimacy psycho-babble, etc. ... full review