VCOnstage – a theater website local to Ventura County, CA – just published a review by Cary Ginell of “Fifteen Men in a Smoke-Filled Room!”

You can read the review here!

The review gave great credit to the wonderful work of the actors in the piece, especially highlighting Scott Blanchard as Warren G. Harding, Jill Dolan as Florence Harding, Bill Walthall as Harry M. Daugherty, and Reign Lewis as Nan Britton, and provides an entertaining, narrative glance into Harding’s personal and political life, although independent from what’s on the stage itself and sometimes in contradiction to it.

The only side note is that the review treats the play as (or perhaps thinks the play should have been) a political drama, when it is actually written and acted as a human drama with politics as a symbolic backdrop, so some aspects of the acting – like the complicated portrayal of Mrs. Harding by Jill Dolan, verging from cutting and acerbic to emotionally fragile (none too meant a feat, that) – is, I feel, under-covered.