The lyrics are droll and clever, and the gifted cast uses the show-stopping musical numbers to create memorable individual portraits.

The production is appropriately stark, and the gifted young cast is attractive and engaging.

New York magazine praised Hawke's "understated direction", particularly his ability to "steer a gifted cast away from the histrionics".

An unusually gifted cast of five brings everything to a polished gleam onstage.

Sometimes even a modestly gifted cast will happily gel, as it does in "Eastward Ho!"

The writer, director "and a gifted cast and crew bring to their genre piece a surprising freshness".

What saves it, for the most part, is a disciplined presentation of the various sinister plot threads and, above all, the control of its gifted cast.

He and Mr. Graham were ably served by a gifted and hard-working cast.

He has the help of a gifted cast, whose members work with unflagging energy and dramatic focus.

But he could not be happier with her work, and that of the eager and gifted cast, he said.