​Monica Parks

THE VIOLET HOUR by Richard Greenberg, Max & Louis Productions.

Brewster is stunningly portrayed by Monica Parks, whose acting genius shines through with every gesture and every line. It soon becomes apparent that Seavering and Brewster are having a torrid love affair, which places poor Seavering in the untenable position of having to choose between his college buddy and his lover.

Robert A. Cohen, Editor-in-Chief, Emiritus

2012 St. Louis Jewish Light

​​These are some great young actors to watch, while your ears exult in the equally great writing of Richard Greenberg's 2003 play. It all combines to create a beautiful feeling of madness—not up there on the stage, where things do get pretty horrifying, but in the audience, once a terrible storm is past...

The young publisher's secret relationship with a black singer provides a bracing sense of defiance against the racial rules of 1919, and Monica Parks (as singer Jessie Brewster) has many delicious moments where she tries to measure the depth of the ice she's skating on, in her affair with Mr. Pannebecker's character. Watching Ms. Parks, you get the distinct impression she's not entirely sure she's made the right decision in trusting a very young publisher with her memoir, or trusting him with herself either.

RICHARD T. GREEN

TALKIN' BROADWAY

Under the direction of Sydnie Grosberg Ronga, the first act feels a little slow as the cast carefully delineates these characters (Only Parks, every inch the glamorous Jessie Brewster from the moment she pulls off her long gloves with a self-assertive flourish, arrives fully fledged.)

Judith Newmark

St. Louis Post Dispatch