Things We Want
by Jonathan Marc Sherman

"THINGS WE WANT has to have the highest cool quotient of any show in town…[A] thickly whimsical comedy of despair…with sloppy drunk scenes, nervous breakdowns, self-lacerating monologues with poetical flourishes, and a battery of stinging quips. Mr. Sherman has a good ear for mantras of the obsessed…His latest play shares with his earlier works…an imaginative thoughtfulness in considering the urges to self-destruct and self-improve.” —The New York Times. ”The despair is quite riveting…a powerful and hilarious vision of a family that constantly struggles to survive in a world that has not been kind to them…all the characters benefit from Sherman's clever, edgy writing. Sherman's one-liners incite plenty of laughter, too…And then there's the window—that constant, haunting reminder of the turmoil that envelops the room.“ —Associated Press. ”The play is a kind of tone poem—with lots of whoopee-cushion laughs—about boys becoming men, and about the terror and humor of being born male at a"

— New York Daily News