by Meir Rinde

TRENTON -- Downtown Trenton’s Passage Theatre Company has become much more locally focused in the last year, drawing more of its actors, designers and directors from the Delaware Valley and performing works by local playwrights. Its newest show, the musical play “Trenton Lights,” takes that local emphasis to the limit.

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By Anita Gates

David Lee White’s “Blood: A Comedy” couldn’t be cleverer as it deals with the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, a soap-opera-style family shocker and reflections on the existence of God.

The Passage Theater Company’s satisfyingly sassy production, a world premiere directed with decided finesse by Adam Immerwahr, introduces us to a painfully honest modern family with outstanding verbal skills. Jacqueline Stanzi (June Ballinger, the company’s executive artistic director) is a college professor who has been yanked out of the classroom after suggesting to a science class that DNA could be proof of intelligent design. This is strange, because Jacqueline has always been a confirmed atheist.

By Peter Filichia/For The Star-Ledger
November 10, 2009

The current production from the Passage Theatre Company in Trenton is misnamed.

David Lee White called his script "Blood: A Comedy." He really should have titled it "Blood: A Farce."

"Don’t you love farce?" asks the lyric in "Send in the Clowns." People who nod yes to the question might very well be pleased by this play.