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"This weekend could be your last chance to see this strange, goofy, and often-beautiful performance piece. So I feel compelled to echo the endorsement of my theatre-beat predecessor Max Sparber, who included Theatre Gallery's original staging of The Sunrise Cafe at Patrick's Cabaret on his Best of 2002 list. The titular cafe is a desolate Southwestern truck stop where three misfits come together for flapjacks, sausages, and surrealism. But forget what its' "about." The show's real pleasures are aural and visual: how yellow spotlights illuminate Jennifer Ilse's lonesome waitress and Paul Herwig's searching trucker like an Arizona sun; the funny-yet-spooky fossil masks; the economical, transporting set; and Marc Doty's tempestuous sound design and whimsical cowboy ballads."

- Dylan Hicks, CITY PAGES A-List, 1/21/2003