4 Outer Critics Circle nominations including Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play
Drama League nomination for Outstanding Production of a Play
2 Lortel nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play and Outstanding Scenic Design
Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Play

"The production by Moritz von Stuelpnagel goes all out on realism and energy. The fresh smells wafting from the stage are mouthwatering. Esparza has great fun playing the kind of guy tough enough to sport a tattoo of pig parts, and sensitive enough to experience rapture while slicing an onion with a handcrafted Japanese knife. More important, he resists the temptation to make Harry more sympathetic than he should be."

"Drop everything and see Seared. It is one of the best new plays in New York, and a welcome reminder what fluent, sharp-as-hell writing and alive, intelligent direction can achieve. In its perfect blending of comedy and drama, it deserves to transfer to Broadway, and delight even bigger audiences. There is no more tense a moment on the New York stage right now than when the dysfunctional Seared quartet must pull together to make a critical meal for a restaurant reviewer, who may or may not be from The New York Times. Seared is as generous a play as it is clever, hilarious, and finally piercing."

"The second act of Theresa Rebecks new comedy Seared begins with a six-minute scene containing not a single line of dialogue. It may be the sexiest scene you will see onstage this year… Seared is a fast-paced workplace comedy that even non-foodies will find hilarious… Under the superb, precisely choreographed direction of Moritz von Stuelpnagel, the actors go through their frenetic verbal and physical paces like expert farceurs."

"Rebeck knows exactly how to ramp up the shouting and plating, how to pepper every exchange heavily with conflict. She and Stuelpnagel are a good match in the physical-comedy department; both are good at seasoning a show with door-swinging farce, an energy that keeps the action moving."

"Comedy and comeuppance keep it cooking; director von Stuelpnagel smartly fires up the humor, and the actors add spice to their characters. Esparza is especially tasty: Preparing meals on a working range onstage, he cooks with such passion and balletic precision that you understand why others have enabled Harrys ego for so long."

"The fun part is how Esparza and Mason match, if not exceed, Rodriguezs flamboyance in defending their respective characters fiefdoms. Moritz von Stuelpnagel directs, and if there has been a more fired-up ensemble on the New York stage this year, I haven’t seen it."