Good Thing
by Jessica Goldberg

"Goldberg weaves her characters together with an assured narrative hand. Each act culminates in emotional fireworks…Yet the characters also have moments of rueful humor and quiet reflection, spoken in language that retains the profane flavor of contemporary speech but occasionally rises to a level of unobtrusive, unassuming lyricism.” —Los Angeles Times. ”…playwright Jessica Goldberg puts forth an ambitiously eclectic aesthetic, a blend of gritty social drama, poetic humor and unsubtle existential contemplation…GOOD THING demonstrates her worthwhile voice in examining lost, angst-ridden or drug-addled people who genuinely wish to improve their lives but don't know how…With an assured sense of what makes great theater, Goldberg gives her actors plenty of length of tightrope to leap from…"

— Variety