“Suicide in Bb is a beauty. If you enjoy having your brain and your musical palate stimulated at the same time as your theatrical sense, the occasion is a very rich one. Ferencz’s staging is marvelously articulate and lucid, and his actors unexceptionably fine. The link with jazz is precisely what gives Ferencz’s production its unity. Rather than trying to squeeze the music into the play, he’s astutely reversed the situation, making the actors, in effect, part of Max Roach’s splendiferous score. The long speeches are treated as free-jazz solos, with the quartet backing them up, then taking over wholly during passages of silent action.”