The Washington Post, February 5th, 2001
In "Tom Walker," local playwright John Strand has written a lively fable about the American subject: money. The play premiered Friday night in a swift 90-minute production at Arena Stage, and it's a laughing skeleton with a bitter heart beating inside. If saying a thing often enough makes it true, then money makes this free-enterprise world go 'round and yet is simultaneously the root of all evil. Strand explores the tension and partnership between these two well-worn sayings in the figure of Tom Walker, a jolly but luckless Colonial American. The apparently skill-less Walker needs money badly...
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