VOICES IN MY HEAD: A LIFE***

Bill is an amazing story teller. There were moments I laughed out loud, and others where I felt a knot in my throat. Like being six years old and visiting your favorite uncle.Beautiful and absorbing. ... full review

Well constructed, well paced, quite involving all the way through, this show took me through a number of emotions -- sometimes one right after another, sometimes simultaneously. It could have descended into pathos, but Ratner's delivery and indomitable spirit kept me involved and engaged the entire time. Bravo Bill Ratner! Do this again -- real soon. And next time, wear funny hats!... full review

You recognize his voice. Bill Ratner, the ever-present omniscient narrator in countless documentaries, video games, and movie trailers – the fucking voice of GI Joe and God, has decided it’s time he use his trade to tell his own story. To be sure, he has had an interesting life, and there’s an instant familiarity – a bond – listening to this anonymous voice subconsciously woven into the fabric of our day to day lives then become, for the first time, real. He actually talks! And he talks off-script. Ratner spends the most effective parts of his performance on glimpses of his career foreshadowed in his childhood. He speaks of his fascination with media as a boy and recalls his first announcer with a voice “deep, calm, and highly intellig... full review

WHAT A SPECTACULAR SHOW! This was one of the best theater experiences I have ever had. Bill's storytelling took me on a wonderful ride through times and places I had never been and yet they now feel like a part of my life story. I thought about the show all night and for days after. I can't recommend it enough! Truly a gift of a show.... full review

A perfectly constructed piece of theater as funny and warm as the man behind the voice of the title. And what a voice! I have no doubt he could have read the phone book and I would have been just as entertained. I'm still smiling ") ... full review

I drove a couple hundred miles from the San Joaquin Valley to see Bill's show and meet him, finally, face to face. I was not ready for the what I experienced that night. Indulge a little background, please. In my prior life, living in SoCal as a corporate video writer/producer, I had used Bill's voice-over talents for many, many projects spanning almost 15 years. I was that director on the other side of his headset that he began the show with. Enter irony, stage dead-center. I too listened to my first crystal set in my bedroom in the dark and felt the entire world flood my head through that copper wiring. I too 'loved' Lucy and Fearless Fosdick, I too made prank phone calls to unsuspecting innocents, recording their responses to childish que... full review

What a wonderful show this is -- moving, funny and informative. Highly recommended!... full review

Not too much to add to the well-deserved raves; this is a damn fine, well crafted show. Engaging, moving, funny. And it left me wanting to know more; each 10 minute or so section could easily be expanded into its own full length show without showing any strain. Well done!... full review

From New York to Edinburgh to Los Angeles, I have seen one-man shows at the Fringe for many, many years. Bill Ratner's piece is one of the few that is exactly what one should be. Bill made me laugh with a room full of people, and once or twice on my own, I think. He also made me cry; with his honesty, hardship, and, most of all, humor. Any man who can do an impression of Zero Mostel from Ionesco's "Rhinoceros" as well as Flint can talk to me about anything. And that is what Bill Ratner does- so very, very well. Go see him do this, Jeremy Guskin aka Uncle Jermy (age 4) ... full review

This show is a must see for all, and anyone who grew up with the advent of radio, and television which influenced their home and life, and their children and grandchildren who could all be enriched by understanding the profundity of these forces; The advertising with the commanding voices; the radio, allowing our imaginations free play; and the constant presence of all these in our daily lives. Bill Ratner has woven all the personal stories of his own life, interspersed with the power of the American Dream and the limitless ambitions it aroused in him, plus a hint of the path to realizing it all. This is woven together with a stirring musical accompaniment and Mr. Ratner's inimitable power and presence and depth as a storyteller. I would es... full review