Theatre Mania
August 16, 2013

"Playfulness and seriousness intermingle to disturbing - and awfully satisfying - effect."

CurtainUp
August 12, 2013

“One of the best social commentaries in dramatic form of the past few years."

The New York Times
August 15, 2013

"A slyly entertaining comedy with a sharp political edge...expresses confusion with remarkable clarity."

The Village Voice
August 6, 2013

"If you’ve ever wished somebody would write a razor-sharp play anatomizing lazy paranoia about the Middle East―somebody has."

Theatre World Internet Magazine
By Ruth Smerling
August 5, 2013

Jonas Hassen Khemini’s Invasion! is a humorous but brutally in-your-face candid discourse on Arab identity in the world. Invasion! raucously cushions it’s slings and arrows spoofing American TV, borrowing format and content from shows like Friends and Saturday Night Live. The four person ensemble of Kamal Hans, Amira Sabbagh, Glenn Stanton and Omer Abbas Salem are merciless as they poke fun at the images of typical Arabs in America by sharing the concept of Abulkasem, the icon of bad behavior, a terrorist who put fear in the hearts of everyone around him. For everyone who has a hard time communicating, a fear of foreigners, or just needs a good laugh, Invasion! delivers from a depth of perspective rarely explored in the United States. Invasion!, with its stunning cast of original artists, is a must see.

Splash Magazines
By Amy Munice
August 10, 2013

Obie-award winning “Invasion!” is a powerful and timely exposé of ethnic and racial profiling, and of that well-worn path of shortcuts in thinking that fall under the rubric of stereotype.

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TimeOut Chicago
By Kris Vire
August 10, 2013

The refractory Invasion! is a meditation on the powers of language and skin color...Khemiri also plays with the idea of an Arab-sounding name—Abulkasem—taking on a life of its own as it's transmuted from one speaker to another like a game of Telephone, eventually becoming the moniker of a terrorist who may or may not really exist.