Here is an excerpt of my Brooklyn Paper review of Women Behind Bars at the Heights Players on Willow Street in Brooklyn Heights, which you can catch today at 2PM (and tonight I think) through weekend. I was very pleasantly surprised by the raucous good fun of this production and the talented cast headed up by Michael Black cross dressing as mean Pauline. Ted Thompson directs and heads up a great creative team.

There is something slightly incongruous about seeing a production of “Women Behind Bars,” a 1975 Tom Eyen play that was a smash hit when it starred Divine and opened Off-Off-Broadway, in the former church on quaint (and historic) Willow Place in Brooklyn Heights that the Heights Players have called home since 1962.

The theater and its location are seriously cute and the audience — judging by a recent Sunday afternoon production — is north of 50. But this production of the camp classic about a group of inmates at the Women’s House of Detention, a send-up of 1950s movies about female prisoners, directed by the obviously talented Ted Thompson and his team of designers, is saucy, sexy, and seriously irreverent.

There is not a weak link among the ensemble of talented, perfectly cast actors, who devour the scenery out of a play that is a laugh-out-loud antidote to homophobia, misogyny and intolerance of all kinds…

You can read the rest of my review the Brooklyn Paper.