Milk Like Sugar
by Kirsten Greenidge

"A distinctive view of a matter of vital currency, crisply delineated characters who reveal more layers as the play proceeds, richly funny vernacular dialogue… Milk Like Sugar delivers piercing glimpses of the way underachievement and unhappiness are passed down from generation to generation."

— The New York Times

"Milk Like Sugar’s remarkable features include its locale, an urban, African-American subworld that displays, for once, neither the brutalizing clichés of a poverty-stricken ghetto nor the discomfiting artificiality of a talented-tenth safe haven. Instead, Greenidge populates her story with a sampling of the innumerable young people between those extremes."

— The Village Voice

"Greenidge’s crackling, often humorous dialogue is in the vernacular of inner-city residents who deliberately distort language…Metaphors about flames, burning and flying are nicely woven throughout the story, along with lyrical symbolic imagery."

— The Associated Press

"Kirsten Greenidge's fast-talking, victim-taking New York debut"

— Entertainment Weekly

"Greenidge captures girl speak in unnerving perfection"

— The Daily News