The following are several personal critique s of this play in it s original form by friends and acquaintance in the theatre industry Tompkins Square Park by Howard G Allen is a shocking revelation about the homeless in New York City in Nineteen Hundred Ninety It is the most realistic portrayal of the homeless that has ever been written It is raw and shocking about what the homeless have to go through in New York City and I am sure every large city across America Not since Eugene O Neill has a playwright brought such realism to a play This play can be compared to Long Days Journey Into Night and The Iceman Cometh The title of this play could very well be called Long Nights Journey Into Day Holly Wertheimer fi lm and video editor CBS After reading this play it touched something in the inner core of my being An experience that I have never had in my lifetime I can t wait to see it on the stage of Broadway He gives a face to the homeless Arthur Miller playwright If you are a person that likes plays such as Mary Poppins or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang then you will probably not like this play but if you are a person that likes deep drama in the genre of the Greek Tragedies Eugene O Neill Tennessee Williams Arthur Miller then you will love this play It is a play with a message Gene Frankel director teacher Just from the message of this play I would recommend it to all serious dramatist to read and study Peter Boyle actor Mr Allen has a true ear for the dialogue of the street people the homeless the people that are forgotten by mid stream America He understands them like no other person unless he was one of them Marta Beatriz Samper actress artist poet Strasberg Alumnus This play is a must read for any person that is serious about the American Drama It reads like a novel and sucks you into the foetal position of wanting to be protected from the tragedy of living on this Earth as a homeless person Susan Strasberg actress Howard Alle