“Drag heaven on Earth... Devil Boys is a riot.” – New York Times
“Be ready to laugh... a cross-dressing comedy that puts a fresh coat of over-the-top on 1950's sci-fi flicks... Devilishly clever.” – New York Daily News
“Two shirtless hunks, four fabulous drag queens, and 90 minutes' worth of high-camp comedy: What more could a fan of ultraridiculous theatrics want? Devil Boys is a devilish delight.” – Backstage
“What's funnier than a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist investigating reports of flying saucers in the mysterious swamplands of Lizard Lick, Florida—the hickest hick-town in all of America? Not much! Unless, perhaps, you cast a man in drag, add a boozing ex-husband, a nemesis/rival reporter, to boot! Mix in clever one-liners, a candy-colored design, and enough boy-toy eye-candy to fill a giant's Halloween sack, and you've got one hell of a show! You might want see it twice. I missed some lines, here and there, as I was still belly-laughing from some previous ones.” – nytheatre.com
“You can tell from the title that Devil Boys From Beyond intends to be fun, and the campy production does not disappoint.... a satiric, raunchy spoof that any generation will enjoy.” – Associated Press
“The Fringe Festival usually throws up a couple of shows you can bank on, and Devil Boys From Beyond, a sci-fi campfest by Buddy Thomas and Kenneth Elliott, performs that service here.” – Variety
“A gaily goofy all-male sci-fi adventure. Nuttier than a pack of killer tomatoes.” – citysbest.com
“Delightfully subversive.” – Theatremania.com
“Hilarious. This play will roughly triple the Theatre District's laugh quotient for as long as it's able to camp out.” – Talkinbroadway.com
“One of the funniest shows I've seen in a long time... filled from beginning to end with untold and unlimited surprises." – Oscaremoore.com
“A honey of a laugh riot... a wonderfully funny time." – Broadwayworld.com
“***** [FIVE STARS]! Buddy Thomas's deliriously campy sci-fi spoof – one of the most entertaining shows I have ever seen – is naughty, gleeful fun...The show opens a fabulous portal to the past: not just the paranoid world of the 1950s, but the legendary drag romps of Charles Ludlam's Ridiculous Theatrical Company and Charles Busch's Theatre-in-Limbo from the 1960s through the 1980s. Devil Boys from Beyond is a necklace of golden links to that wild theatrical tradition. If there were any justice in this mixed-up world of ours, the whole show would be tractor-beamed Off Broadway tomorrow." — Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
“Cheap in all the right ways, the fast, tawdry and very funny Devil Boys From Beyond is the Fringe Festival at its best." — New York Post
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