The Best Of Everything
by Julie Kramer, Rona Jaffe

"A respectful, hysteria-free, streamlined and appealingly modest effort that lets Jaffe’s working girls speak for themselves. What they have to say isn’t, in some ways, all that different from what the women of Sex and the City and even Lena Dunham’s Girls would be saying decades later."

— The New York Times

"Brilliantly funny... A satirical statement on the world then contrasted with the world now... Feels light and bubbly like a champagne toast to the ’50s, but then the drama drops... While we smile at the old vintage songs and attitudes of a bygone era, we suddenly realize women today are facing the exact same struggles nearly a century later... A fun evening that will make you think."

— BroadwayWorld

"To my surprised pleasure, The Best of Everything is neither a delirious sendup nor a mordant, finger-wagging deconstruction. It’s a respectful, hysteria-free, streamlined and appealingly modest effort that lets Jaffe’s working girls speak for themselves… The whole show is refreshingly free of the ‘aren’t-we-clever’ self-consciousness that often accompanies such excursions into pop-culture past… There is a welcome humility at work here, which in turn creates a feeling of unvarnished transparency. This approach gently and divertingly reminds us that Jaffe’s novel focused a clear and abidingly useful gaze on women caught in a moment in time that isn’t as distant as you might suppose."

— The New York Times

"It’s Stage Door in a Mad Men world, with a jigger of Peyton Place, and Kramer treats its soapiness like a bubble bath whose froth conceals some pretty dirty water."

— Time Out New York

"This clever adaptation of Rona Jaffe’s novel about secretaries in the 1950s is an absolute treat… The Best of Everything nimbly lives up to its title."

— TheaterMania