Hollywood Reporter, Frank Scheck
"Director Kimberly Senior stages the evening in impeccable fashion (it was originally directed and developed by Kim Hughes), smoothing the fast-paced transitions and blasting period-appropriate pop songs between scenes."
The New York Times (Critic's Pick) Elisabeth Vincentelli
"Mr. Mandvi and his director, Kimberly Senior — with whom he worked on the Off Broadway production of Ayad Akhtar's 'Disgraced,' in 2012 — have kept the story set in the blithe, pre-9/11 days of 1998. On a surface level, that means that Samir is still glued to his Game Boy.... But the implications run deeper than vintage video games and songs: The show takes place in a different era, when being an immigrant of a certain faith certainly wasn't easy, but it also was somewhat less burdened with stigma..... 'Sakina's Restaurant' has acquired a new, somber underlining, making us miss a time when ignorance was paired with benign disinterest rather than hate."
TimeOut NY, Raven Snook
"Under Kimberly Senior's direction, Mandvi is particularly moving as the show's two women: Farrida, a former dancer uprooted from the country she loved by her husband's dream, and Sakina, an Americanized teen oppressed by cultural customs."