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Time Out New York

Review: Streamers
The Roundabout revives David Rabe's 1976 psychodrama about young soldiers bound for Vietnam.

Bergen Record

Vietnam-era play has lost much impact

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AmericanTheaterWeb

Review - Streamers - A Vietnam War Classic Revisited

New York Times

Banter in the Barracks Takes a Serious Turn
The theater’s heavy reliance on revivals sometimes feels like a steady diet of disillusionment. Not so with the revival of “Streamers.”

New York Daily News

Viet-era play surges back to life
Dziemianowicz: Who needs a battlefield when a barrack gets so fraught with anxiety and frustration that it becomes its own war zone? That notion looms large during the sturdy revival of David Rabe's drama "Streamers."

amNY

Theater Review of Streamers

Newsday

Reviews: Rabe's 'Streamers,' and 'Saturn Returns'

New York Post

Chute the messenger
For several years now, theater companies have dusted off war-themed plays for revivals. The latest example is this Roundabout Theatre...

Associated Press

'Streamers' displays a tough-minded timeliness

Variety

Review: Streamers
...Sexuality turns out to be the big one here, and its handling continues to resonate more than 30 years after the play was first seen -- especially so in light of the past week's events.

Back Stage

Streamers reviewed by David A. Rosenberg
Plays date for different reasons. Even a work as damning and compassionate, as violent and loving as David Rabe's Streamers suffers from events beyond its control.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Cast sabotages 'Streamers'
David Rabe, best known for Hurlyburly, was long considered the playwright of the Vietnam War. A vet whose company once traded him to another company for a Jeep, he understood the deep damage the war did to the American psyche. In an essay written....

TheaterMania

Review: Streamers
The Roundabout gives a sizzling, well-acted revival to David Rabe's play about a group of Vietnam War-era soldiers.

Talkin' Broadway

Review: Streamers
Go ahead, throw around the "D" word. It's an appropriate, perhaps even accurate, description of David Rabe's 1976 play Streamers. After all, if a play set in a Virginia army barracks in 1965, and concerning a quartet of soldiers tussling with issues of class, race, and sexuality before shipping out to Vietnam isn't dated, what is? Hasn't our understanding of each of these topics progressed well beyond what any 32-year-old play could teach us - especially in the coinciding eras of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and President-Elect Barack Obama? . . .

CurtainUp

Review: Streamers
This earnest, well-acted but mostly patience-trying revival certainly makes its points, although they have been blunted by time