“Director Leon Shanglebee and his merry band of 27 cast members and onstage musicians score points for tackling this unrelentingly offbeat script. The troupe pulls no punches in this psychosis-laden story set in and around a 1960s New York ghetto cafe. …imagine Hot L Baltimore on smack…The whole thing feels like a heroin-laced bowl of oatmeal… Shanglebee has assembled a core of strong talent."