My Last Play

Reviews

"I'd like to recommend it to every single person I've ever met." - newyorker.com. Read Elizabeth Minkel's "The Book Bench" post.

"I feel like every time I see a play I say it has changed my life in some way, but in the case of Ed Schmidt's 'My Last Play,' it's absolutely true. The man is a life-changer." - USA Today. Read Whitney Matheson's review.

"Bizarre and truly bold experiment in form and manipulation ... its elaborate artifice is built on rock-solid truths." - New York Times. Read Jason Zinoman's review.

"One-of-a-Kind Theatre You Don't Want to Miss!" - New York Magazine. Read Scott Brown's review.

"A sly boots of a playwright and a gifted dissembler." - New York Times. Read Bruce Weber's article.

"Located somewhere between Andy Kaufman and Waiting for Guffman, Schmidt has turned the ruins of his (authentically) failed career into a charming, thought-provoking monument to the persistence of art." - Time Out New York.

"Ed Schmidt is a fairly ordinary-looking middle-aged white guy with thinning hair [and] a little bit of a gut." - The New Yorker. Hilton Als's Critic's Notebook piece, though positive, was based only on other critics' articles and reviews, since Hilton Als has neither seen nor read any of my plays nor met me. Read this extraordinary example of armchair journalism.

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