PRESS
LUNCHTIME
“Playwright/Director Greg Kotis’ ear for blather is epicurean, and the words are madly relished by Bob Laine in a tour de force of buffoonish hubris..” Adam McGovern 3/13/17 HiLobow
GEORGE BATAILLE'S BATHROBE
“Bob Laine whose Fop is a comic gem..”
Rachel Saltz 10/10/10 New York Times
ON THE ORIGIN OF DARWIN
“Veteran collaborator Bob Laine does his customary excellent work…managing to be both sympathetic and foolish as a recalcitrant missionary” 12/19/04 Martin Denton NY Theatre.com
PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE
“Bob Laine plays one of the best cop-zombies you will find anywhere this Halloween”
The Butcher, 10/13/10
The Brooklyn Paper
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“laugh out loud funny particularly the zombie dance number and Bob Laine’s impressive zombie portrayal”
Sarah Lucie 11/11/10 Show Business
TWO GENTLEMEN OF LEBOWSKI
"Laine was a powerful force... With resounding energy and considerable stamina, his incarnation of Walter was certainly every bit as laudable as John Goodmans”
Olga Privman 4/2/10 Review Fix.com
“Bob Laine steals the show as the perpetually angry Sir Walter of Poland”
Duncan Plfaster 3/24/10
Broadway World.com
THREE DOLLAR BILL
“Bob Laine has a wonderful felicity with the difficult and often deliberately fallacious language” 12/16/05 Off Off Onlne
“Bob Laine delivers a tour de force performance as the crazy therapist” Martin Denton 12/4/05
NY Theatre.com
THE BLOOD BROTHERS PRESENT
“disturbing, funny (thanks in no small part to Bob Laine), surprising and ultimately completely satisfying” Bryne Harrison 11/7/14
Stagebuzz.com
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BITCH MACBETH
“Bob Laine as Asbury...is enormously impressive in a breakdown scene that presages a Lear in his future”
Martin Denton, 1/10/08
NY Theatre.com
ELEVATOR
“Laine hijacks the show with his eerie serenity and hair-trigger threats..” Adam McGovern 6/10/13
ME
“Cameos …especially Bob Laine as Dad, a hick hammerhead shark in a gold diaper, are hilarious”
Ronnie Reich, 5/6/08 Backstage.com
THE DEATH OF GRIFFIN HUNTER
“with his gap-toothed grin and pudgy boxer’s face, Bob Laine expresses a stunning breadth of emotions”
Nancy Ellen Shore 1/18/07 Backstage.com
“some particularly outstanding work coming from…Bob Laine, funny and touching as Boa”
Martin Denton 1/17/07
NY Theatre.com
BATZ
“It’s done with overt glee radiating from the cast. Notable are ….Bob Laine’s Penguin” 7/30/12
Theater for Nerds
LE LYCANTHROPE
“Bob Laine steals the show whenever he’s around as the outsized fop Clitandre, relishing the verse and putting over the comedy broadly and winkingly”
Martin Denton 10/5/06 NY Theatre.com
“Clitandre and Oronte, formed a particularly noteworthy team; Bob Laine’s Clitandre was giddy”
10/13/06 Kimberly Patterson
OffOff online.com.
BONEDIVE SCROUNGER
“a portrait of noble menace and self-declared authority from Bob Laine” Adam McGovern 1/19/15
PASSING THROUGH
“Bob Laine does a great job as a resigned and ground down Man in a Business Suit”
Pamela Butler 4/11/13 NY Theatre.com
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THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
“especially notable is…Bob Laine… who takes several roles here and has particular fun with the foppish Brits”
Martin Denton 6/21/02 NY Theatre.com
Mel’s Overshare Caberet
“Other treats included…Bob Laine doing a crazy acid fueled monologue…it was hilarious, crazy and profound in its way all at the same time” Trav SD 11/2/16 Travalanche