OTHER VOICES: John Monaghan reviews Matrix’s A Kid Like Jake for Detroit Free Press
We’ve seen her before: the single-minded mother who’s obsessed with getting her genius child into the best possible New York City kindergarten program en route to the Ivy League. That character, usually played for laughs, is at the very serious center of Daniel Pearle’s A Kid Like Jake, a smart and provocative new play about the pitfalls of parenting that’s being staged by the Matrix Theatre Company.