"Annie Baker's John is so good on so many levels that it casts a unique and brilliant light."

 The New Yorker

"Ms. Baker... stretches her talents in intriguing if sometimes baffling new directions."

 The New York Times

"Baker is trying to extend to characters in extremis the intense realism -- not stage realism but real realism -- usually denied them in plays."

 Vulture

"When it comes to playwriting, [Baker] is astonishingly clear-eyed. In John, her new play at the Signature Theatre, one character is blind and another wears glasses with a very strong prescription, but they both benefit from Baker's excellent vision."

 The Guardian

"Baker knows exactly what she's doing -- she gives us just enough to open up possibilities. What a thrill!"

 New York Post

"Baker does not merely tell a scary story. She shows them, piling up like ghosts of amputated limbs from the war wounded, and makes them riveting, unpredictable, altogether human theater."

 Newsday