Variety’s theater critic Marilyn Stasio writes, “Chances are writer-performer James Lecesne will not leap down from the stage and slap you around for being unmoved by “The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey.” That’s Lecesne’s earnest one-man show lamenting the death of a sensitive gay teenager who was murdered–for being sensitive and gay. But the threat of emotional blackmail still hangs over this sentimental play, in which the scribe and solo performer plays the multiple roles of the residents of the little New Jersey town where Leonard lived. ” ‘
