Press for Love, Death and Vengeance: A Comedy:
”Daniel Kelley’s new play (his first full-length in NYC), Love, Death, and Vengeance, starts off from the premise that mundane and ordinary events in the lives of high school students are in fact of gargantuan and mythic importance—indeed, that they’re the stuff of Greek tragedy. This, of course, is exactly how those events actually feel when they’re happening to you when you’re 16, which makes Kelley’s leap not just clever but thoroughly apropos.”
“The evidence of a talented young writer to keep an eye on is clear.”
“He [Daniel Kelley] sustains his concept brilliantly…walking the line between John Hughes parody and Sophocles parody with distinction.”
- Martin Denton, Nytheatre.com
“Adding “A Comedy” to the title of a play is always dangerous, for it adds the high expectation of laughter to that show. Luckily, Daniel Kelley, like most of his cast, does sketch comedy, and he knows how to conjure up a laugh: in this case, it’s by cramming every Greek myth he could remember into the show.”
“The comedy is crystal, especially [with] the cast’s more-is-more approach….”
“The delightfully precise chorus (Katie Hartman, Rachel Risen, and John Moreno) remind us that the humor’s been well planned.”
-Aaron Riccio, Show Showdown
