"As the world of our politics keeps getting weirder, it's still trying to keep up with Mickle Maher's wrenchingly funny play. The Strangerer is here to prove that fiction can hold its own in the everlasting race with truth to the deepest depths of the very, very strange." -- Austin Pendleton, award-winning actor & director
"In a time when reality is cynically dismissed as fake, Mickle Maher creates theater that questions what the nature of reality really is with ingenious language, mordant satire, and a stab in the heart of the dark, slippery truth." -- Brian Azzarello, author of 100 Bullets & Moonshine
"One wants to shake Maher and shout, Why the hell Lehrer? Lehrer in his prime, Lehrer murdered, Lehrer multiplied, Lehrer formerly of PBS NewsHour, Lehrer with knives, Lehrer older, lonelier, dumber. With this icon of probity, Maher expresses our political and existential rage, our ironic amusement, and inappropriate musings. This absurdist, hilarious, deadpan set of pieces is brilliant." -- Deb Olin Unferth, author of Revolution & Wait Till You See Me Dance
"I like The Strangerer because it picks as its subject an ominous but rather unassuming historical event--complete with its iconic personas and political landscape--to make a stratospheric jump into either the absurd or the hyperreal. Its existential scope poses a challenge to what we call a play in order to interrogate. It's like: what are we even doing?" -- Richard Maxwell, award-winning director & playwright