Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress

Times review: Read the complete Times review

Richard Sierra Brea, CA

A very good production.

John Culver City, CA

Just to clarify, that was NOT Yosefa performing as Svetlana even though she was in the program. Check your insert for the actual performer. Apparently Yosefa was fired by Joan but we don't know why

MaxMillion Studio City, CA

Joan’s story of her rise and fall and rise and fall in Hollywood is interesting enough. As a play, it suffers from broadly sketched and clunky, stereotypical characters. The balding, chubby and middle aged klutzy assistant producer Kenny (Adam Kulbersh) is really a female impersonator. The skinny, pretty and ditzy makeup girl with the thick Russian accent – predictably named Svetlana (Yosefa Forma) – really wants to be a pop star. All that peripheral nonsense feels sadly underdeveloped. Yet the comical exchanges between Joan and her hapless assistants, along with various wardrobe disasters, and contentious phone calls with management and Melissa, help to break up the evening from being an uninterrupted two hours of monologues and stand up routines. Die-hard Joan Rivers fans will love seeing this legendary performer in all her face-lifted glory.

michael west hollywood, ca

an amazing tour de force: ms rivers is one of the funniest performers of all time - and surprisingly, also an actress of true high talent. the account of her attendance at mae west's funeral and the suicide of her husband are told with such truth and honesty, one would have to have a heart of stone to remain unmoved. an unqualified rave!