Kansas City Pitch Review:

Memory Lane has never looked quite as enchanting as in Freak Up the Street, Billy Blob's imaginative, unabashedly sentimental play about coming to terms with two kinds of loss. Andy Garrison stars as William, a man trapped by the patterns of adulthood and his inability to cope with his mother's death. Most of the play unfolds in flashbacks: William "time travels" back to scenes with his mom (Sallie A. Downing); his childhood friend, Johnny (Davis Lee DeRock Jr.); and the freak up the street (William Grey Warren), an eccentric neighbor with a pet possum and a taste for David Bowie records. Blob's cast is unimpeachable - the ensemble effortlessly captures both childhood's playful energy and adulthood's scab-picking nostalgia. But the production and prop design are worth the ticket price alone. Blob treats audiences to a parade of intricate paper set pieces, playful dioramas and hand props enlarged to the size of cartoon daydreams. Make room in your schedule (and your cynical adult heart) for this show, playing on the Unicorn Theatre's Levin Stage.