Review: The New York Times
An 85-minute monologue lives or dies on the pacing. It’s easy to peak too early or drown in detail or lose your audience in a dead spot or a poorly structured story. Mike Birbiglia’s pacing is simply perfect in “Sleepwalk With Me,” his funny, appealing one-man show at the Bleecker Street Theater… Read More
Review: The New York Post
AMONG the topics touched on by “Sleep walk With Me” are a malignant tumor, the ending of a longtime romantic relationship and a sleep disorder that nearly results in death. So why is it so consistently funny? …Read More
Review: Variety
Mike Birbiglia’s mind wanders into the strangest places. Ever wondered what would happen if an iPhone could shoot bullets? No? Birbiglia has, and while his solo show, “Sleepwalk With Me,” may be a little lightweight as drama, his consistently engaging digressions keep the aud laughing at problems that probably wouldn’t be all that amusing outside the theater. There’s the writer-performer’s cancer, for one thing, and then there’s a sleep disorder that nearly killed him. “It was less funny at the time,” Birbiglia admits, but that’s all right — it’s plenty funny now… Read More
Review: Associated Press
Mike Birbiglia knew he needed to get help when he found himself running in his underwear at 3 a.m. on the front lawn of a motel in Walla Walla, Wash., shortly after having jumped from his second-story window — in his sleep. This and other revelations are the basis of Birbiglia’s one-man comedy “Sleepwalk With Me,” a riotously funny examination of his longtime struggle with sleepwalking and the various perils he has encountered while doing it… Read more