Five Stars for LITTLE WARS from TheaterLife…
“January 28, 2020: When a playwright decides to write about a group of literary luminaries, he’d better be able to turn a phrase or two himself. Fortunately, Steven Carl McCasland is the man for the job. His Little Wars, which begins streaming on Broadway On Demand February 1 as a “rehearsed reading,” is set in Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas’s wartime retreat at the foot of the French Alps. This is not exactly their salon at 27 rue de Fleurus, but soon their guests arrive…
In Little Wars, not only is the occasion imaginary; the food is too. But not to fear, there’s lots of alcohol flowing freely. If the bitter revelation of rancor and regrets fueled by too much liquor is something of a theatrical cliché, in this case it does ignite conversations that are witty, funny and often quite moving…”
