CRITIC’S CHOICE “Unapologetic rage and humor…Bury the Dead’s insights sting.  Nothing is as unnerving as the steady gaze of the dead out at the audience. They dare us to forget them…War casualties as an image problem are the conundrum in Bury the Dead, Irwin Shaws righteous, funny and painfully relevant 1936 piece now playing at the Actors Gang….it’s ethos driven by core pleasures (a woman’s smile, a cold beer, the dream of the future) and an instinctive distrust of authority…Shaw argues with characters, not ideology, and the show succeeds most when its performers burrow into your gut….it may raise the hair on the back of your neck." Charlotte Stoudt, LA Times 

“…this is part of The Actors’ Gang’s brilliance; the uncanny ability to put on robustly produced, well-acted plays that resonate strongly with current affairs.” Frederick Sisa, Front Page online

 “GO!… Matthew Huffman’s somber production is terrific, and so is his cast. "
LA Weekly 

The Actors’ Gang has resurrected a play that would seem to have been just written. Bury The Dead was actually written and produced in 1936, the brainchild of a young writer named Irwin Shaw, who would go on to write screenplays, stories, and novels like The Young Lions. This play must have been a shocker when it opened. Its viewpoint, as well as its frank language and depiction of the wounds of war, may not be so surprising nowadays, but Bury The Dead comes across in this production as a still powerful indictment of the ritual of war. Lynne Bronstein, Stage Happenings