Jonathan Spector
  • About
  • Plays
    • Eureka Day
    • This Much I Know
    • Best Available
    • Good. Better. Best. Bested.
    • In From The Cold
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"An entertaining, fast-moving, emotional roller coaster of a production, shifting effectively between episodes eliciting side-splitting laughter, serious reflection, shock, and horror, all punctuated by an uneasy sense of sadness and despair that looms over even some of the most awkward and laugh-out-loud moments."
- Nicole Singley, Aisle Seat Review 
GOOD. BETTER. BEST. BESTED. 
90 min, 3W, 3M 


A one-night journey down the Las Vegas strip, an interwoven story of bachelorettes, magicians, street performers, gamblers, and tourists. As the nighttime festivities get under way, an earth-shattering event happens half a world away. In the midst of this tragedy and the chaos it unleashes, the characters must reckon with how much to let it disturb their good time.

Selected history:
[2018] Custom Made Theater (San Francisco) production
[2018] Theater of Note (Los Angeles) reading
[2017] San Francisco Playhouse (SF) reading

[2016] Bay Area Playwrights Festival (San Francisco) workshop
[2015] Playwrights Foundation Rough Reading Series (San Francisco) reading
[2015] Just Theater New Play Lab (Berkeley) reading

​REVIEWS
"Wonderfully inventive. Each character reveals multiple dimensions, thanks to Spector's artistry...director Lauren English captures every nuance of this delectable comedy; she's the perfect match for Spector's sly sense of humor and deep empathy for the human condition in the age of anxiety...funny, charming and oddly affecting." - San Francisco Examiner

"I
ts dialogue is so crisp, its characters so compelling and real, that I was happy to sit back and enjoy watching humanity take a nose dive into the pile of glass shards of the broken dream of America that is Las Vegas." Talkin' Broadway 

"The corkscrew escalation of the one-of-a-kind production “Good. Better. Best. Bested.” delivers hysteria on a luxurious golden platter. Audiences should strap in, because the comedy provides one hell of a ride...glistening, enthusiastic, satiric and wild" - Sophie Kim, Daily Cal

"Are we ready for the conversation that Spector is designing in his surreal and satirical vision of Las Vegas at the brink?  Maybe it’s the Next Big Thing."
-Tyler Jeffreys, Theatritus

"It’s an entertaining, fast-moving, emotional roller coaster of a production, shifting effectively between episodes eliciting side-splitting laughter, serious reflection, shock, and horror, all punctuated by an uneasy sense of sadness and despair that looms over even some of the most awkward and laugh-out-loud moments in this multi-dimensional comedy...Spector has crafted his characters with empathy and depth"
- Nicole Singley, Aisle Seat Review



  • About
  • Plays
    • Eureka Day
    • This Much I Know
    • Best Available
    • Good. Better. Best. Bested.
    • In From The Cold
  • Contact
  • Upcoming