Chicago Reader Highly Recommended
"Skillet Productions' tragicomic exploration of a dissolving showbiz duo exceeds Atom Egoyan's 2005 film on the same subject, Where the Truth Lies. Writer-performers Dave Lykins and James Yeater are superb as a 60s-era comedy team between sets at a Catskills club, abusing and placating each other by turn. The dialogue is natural, the two have a war-buddies rapport, and director Don Hall keeps the tension high. But a brilliant prop upstages everything else in the production: an empty frame, suspended from the ceiling downstage, serves as a vanity mirror. Usually watching each other's "reflections" in it while they talk, they not only speak directly to the audience but reveal the distance that's grown between them, two phantoms in a bright-lights fantasy." --Ryan Hubbard
From the Chicago Tribune's Nina Metz:
"Created by local actors Dave Lykins and James Yeater, "Baker & Huff" riffs on the old comedy duos of yore. Comedians often are called some of the angriest people in the world, and this show aims to prove it.
...Small and well-observed, the piece is a decent hour of acting and psychological layer-peeling..."
TIME OUT CHICAGO MAGAZINE:
"...revels in the legendarily sardonic and oftentimes sadistic alter egos of '50s family hour entertainers...beautiful symmetry...Take into account a relatively high density of macho posturing and you can argue that they've out Mameted Mamet...When the gloves finally come off, and Lykins and Yeater let us see the resentment simmering beneath the surface, there is guilty pleasure in seeing two desperate people grasping for a lifeline" - Dan Granata