• "Witherspoon, as in Part 1, is a master class in acting and reactions, changing the tone of the conversation with as little as a subtle posture shift or raised eyebrow."

    — WPRO (Read Review)

  • "... Witherspoon’s Emilio is particularly and perpetually appealing..."

    — Boston Globe (Read Review)

  • "The Company Way: What Happened to the Acting Ensemble Ideal"

    — American Theatre Magazine (Read Interview)

  • "At the end of the performance something happened that I haven’t encountered in years. Or rather, didn’t happen. Where usually the clapping begins the moment the lights go down, here there was no applause, just a silence that spoke more loudly than an ovation."

    — Valley Advocate (Read Review)

  • "Samuel French Announces 44th Annual Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival Winners: The six plays will be published and made available for licensing from the century-old theatrical licensor."

    — Playbill (Read Feature)

  • "But it’s Witherspoon who showcases why this specific production of this specific musical matters... With stunning technical control, Witherspoon’s singing is simultaneously sure-footed and tender."

    — New England Theatre Geek (Read Review)

  • "Witherspoon has one scene in this episodic play, one pivotal moment in Darja’s life, and he makes it count... he is terrific at balancing Vic’s outsized personality with his naivete and thoughtfulness and his persistent attempts to help a homeless and battered woman."

    — Boston Globe (Read Review)

  • "Rodney Witherspoon’s Emilio carries off the difficult task of being the perpetual questioner—the one determined to hold others to account when they only want to carry on in delusion."

    — The Arts Fuse (Read Review)

  • "With outdoor productions, Wellfleet theater learns about nature."

    — Provincetown Banner (Read Interview)

  • Nix the chains dragging down the ghost of Scrooge’s business partner, Jacob Marley, played with palpable agony by Rodney Witherspoon II? Yes... Tethered to purgatory, they fly in from all sides and eventually wrap ropes around Marley, whose back arches sharply as he warns Scrooge of a similar fate, “You choose not to understand!”

    — Providence Journal (Read Review)

  • "As Louis de Rougemont, a real-life British adventurer of the Victorian era, Rodney Witherspoon II is an affable storyteller. He struts and frets for 90 minutes on the Garden Stage outside the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, telling the story of Louis’s life. And what an epic story it is..."

    — The Provincetown Independent (Read Review)

  • "Under Rodney Witherspoon II’s direction, this play is marvelously performed, easily holding the audience’s attention throughout its uninterrupted 90 minutes."

    — Provincetown Magazine (Read Review)

  • "44th Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival Announces Six Winning Plays"

    — Broadway World (Read Feature)

  • "I watched the show from my home and felt that the taped production came through with full clarity."

    —Wall Street Journal (Read Review)

  • "Witherspoon captures de Rougemont's wonderment as one adventure succeeds another, and, later, Louis's desolation as he goes from the toast of London to the object of derision, with scholars and journalists out to debunk his tales."

    — Boston Globe (Read Review)

  • "Witherspoon’s Belize vigilantly steals every scene with his poetic outrage."

    — Broadway World (Read Review)

  • "Director Rodney Witherspoon II takes that bleakness and infuses it with meaning, the lamp, the walls, the window, the chains, the furniture—everything is more than what it seems. Words have secondary and tertiary meanings; gestures are spare (except for one crowning moment when Turner leaps on a stool to pray) and subdued; Death itself hovers over the stage."

    — Ptownie (Read Review)

  • "The moments where he takes center stage are some of the most affecting. His soliloquy, “Dust and Ashes” ... is simply gorgeous."

    — Motif Magazine (Read Review)

  • "... we're ready for some humor and kindness, and Witherspoon gives us both. His Vic is funny, kind, sweet and generous."

    —The Westerly Sun (Read Review)

  • "Rodney Witherspoon II, who played the lead in WHAT’s recent production of "Shipwrecked!", directs with fluidity, grace, and power. "

    — The Provincetown Independent (Read Review)

  • "Witherspoon, who gave a dazzling turn in last year’s “Angels in America,” is in top form here as well... He’s self-righteous, abrasive, and hypocritical, but thanks to Witherspoon’s charisma, is fascinating to watch."

    — New England Theater Blog