SOURCE: Weales, Gerald. “A Long Way to Broadway.” Commonweal 117, no. 4 (23 February 1990): 117-18.

In the following review, Weales compliments Traveler in the Dark as “an intriguing character study and a fascinating philosophical and theological debate.”

Marsha Norman's Traveler in the Dark has been a long time making its way to New York. It was first performed at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge in 1984, and a year later, a new version—this version—opened at the Mark Taper in Los Angeles. It was published in Norman's first collection, Four Plays, in 1988. It finally arrived in Manhattan in mid-January when the York Theater Company mounted an effective production for a limited run. Reading the play, seeing the play, I find it difficult to guess why the delay. It is true that it lacks the dramatic force of Norman's earlier plays—Getting Out, 'night, Mother—but it is an intriguing character...