North Coast Rep's EISENHOWER is prescient and powerful, starring Tony Award-winning actor John Rubinstein in a superb performance. Funny and entertaining. Fast-paced, enlightening and visually engaging.
- The San Diego-Union Tribune
This production is awesome and awe inspiring in one. It is uplifting, educational, humorous, and powerful. You will be enthralled from start to finish, and bedazzled by this evocative and incredible relevance to our present world.
- Curtain Up!
There are certain protocols one is expected to observe when in the audience for the performance of a play, among them not applauding spoken lines throughout. That’s for afterward, or in some cases if warranted after a particularly impactful scene when the house lights darken. Or, if absolutely impossible to suppress, after a main character’s empowered or passionate moment of monologue.
But a very discernible sense of the audience wanting to burst into applause, and to do so many times, hovered above the North Coast Repertory theatergoers last night during John Rubinstein’s performance of Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground. I was among them, scarcely able to hold back.
- Stage West
Rubinstein disappears into the role of Eisenhower, embodying his virtues and sense of humor. The performer is persuasive with his words and is beautifully subtle and silent in deep moments of reflection.
- San Diego Story
Packed with emotional depth, Rubinstein commands the stage with a powerful presence....a show that could go straight to Broadway.
- Entertainment Today
This is one of the best plays you will ever see! Eisenhower, This Piece of Ground has already been extended, but don’t delay because you could miss the best play this year, maybe your lifetime.
- The Village News
John Rubinstein is brilliant as retired President Dwight Eisenhower in North Coast Repertory's latest production. The play is humorous, poignant, insightful and shows the complexity of Eisenhower's importance in the history of this country.
- The Vista Press and The North County Daily Star
Tony Award winner John Rubinstein is an absolute rockstar, giving a full embodiment of Dwight D. Eisenhower—an excellent storyteller with tone, pace, and organic movement through the space. The direction here was key as the weight of, again, a two-hour performance at one voice is not easy. The props and creative team made this production engaging.
- From Another Zero
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Peter Ellenstein Director
Richard Hellesen Playwright
Joe Huppert Stage Manager
Marty Burnett Set Design
Matthew Novotny Light Design
Clarence Lightfoot III Production Assistant/Crew
