Come Back, Little Sheba | Critical Overview
When Come Back, Little Sheba opened on Broadway in February of 1950, it was to mixed reviews. Most critics cheered the performances of Shirley Booth and Sydney Blackmer in the lead roles. But all too many deplored the actors' waste in a play described as "dramatic trivialities" (Howard Barnes in New York Theatre Critics' Reviews) and "underwritten to the point of barrenness'' (Brooks Atkinson in his second New York Times review two weeks after the play' s opening). Barnes and Atkinson were not alone. Commonweal's Kappo Phelan labeled Inge's drama "a poor play...
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