• "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)

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

    — Boston Globe (Read)

  • "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)

  • "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)

  • "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)

  • "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)

  • "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)

  • 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)

  • "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)

  • "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)

  • "Witherspoon is excellent as Lyons, the cool-cat musician whose name allows for moments of laughter and silliness."

    —The Westerly Sun (Read)

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

    — Broadway World (Read)

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

    —Wall Street Journal (Read)

  • "Rodney Witherspoon II does a creditable job in the demanding lead role, which requires him to both narrate and reenact Louis's swashbuckling exploits (introducing sequences in chapter form). 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)

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

    — Broadway World (Read)

  • "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)

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

    — Motif Magazine (Read)

  • "... 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)

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

    — The Provincetown Independent (Read)

  • "Rodney Witherspoon's Pierre is grounded, a solid foil to the show's more ostentatious male characters. This quality truly shines through at the tail end, during his final scene with Natasha and when the comet finally appears, during "The Great Comet of 1812."

    — Broadway World (Read)

  • "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 (Read)