Press

"Tara Handron is a fabulous actor and playwright who really brings the issues of addiction and recovery to a dramatic light." 
— Christopher Kennedy Lawford

"Any theatergoer can appreciate Handron and Brienza's skill at packing humor and theatricality into sociological observations."
— Washington Post

ONE-WOMAN SHOW BREAKS BOOZE TABOOS

"…Although "it's gotten better," Handron tells The Fix, "for a long time it's been taboo to be an active alcoholic, which prevents many women from seeking recovery." The media often depicts addiction in "black and white extremes," she notes—when in reality, addiction takes "so many different forms." Handron, who also works at the Caron Foundation in DC, compiled her characters based on the many women she's met and spoken with in the course of her work and her personal life…And she hopes the show will help people to see addiction "as a disease, an illness, not a moral deficiency."
- May Wilkerson, The Fix

"Looking outside yourself to see you have a problem is an extremely difficult thing to deal with. And the road recovery is one paved with failures and hurt. This show is a bravely personal battle fought and won. Hope is a modern day warrior. I would like to thank her for sharing."
Tony Bartolone, L.A. Theater Review

“It’s difficult to not be skeptical about a one-woman show that includes only five chairs and a projector, but a few witty lines about boozing into Tara T. Handron’s stories of more than 20 female recovering alcoholics and all of my skepticism vanished a lot faster than any hangover. The performance moves swiftly through first-person accounts, based on D.C.-based Handron’s Georgetown thesis research on female alcoholics, and also explores the recovery process from the perspective of the feelings these women experience…Handron’s ability to move from one character to another…was seamless and her deadpan comedic timing coupled with raw emotion drew the audience in closer as if the whole performance was one large AA meeting.”
- TimeOut Chicago

"Tara Handron, a playwright and actress, does as good of a job as anyone I've known, at uncovering why and how recovering alcoholics are able to stay sober when they spill their guts between four walls."
— BeliefNet's Beyond Blue by Therese Borchard

‘Drunk With Hope' Addresses Stigma of Women With Alcoholism, Addiction
Doreen Gentzler, News4 Anchor and Christina Romano

 One-Woman Show 'Drunk With Hope' Chronicles Recovery From Alcoholism
-Britni de la Cretaz, The Fix

CCT Interview with Tara, Georgetown University

“As a performer, Handron is dynamic and damn near fearless, embodying over the course of the hour a panoply of characters, as well as abstract concepts from the alcoholic’s psychological landscape…” 
— DCtheatrescene.com

"Handron brilliantly balances the seriousness and complexities of alcoholism with comedic levity."
— The Georgetown Voice

 “...they’ll walk away with hope.”
— Cultruremob.com

"Tara Handron wrote and performs this collection of characters, displaying consummate technique and a nice touch with character."
— Express Night Out

"The soliloquies in the first part of this hour long dramatic casebook depict women still in the grips of addiction, while later character portraits chronicle humbling and — as the play's tone tilts increasingly toward optimism — ultimately successful battles with the problem."
— Washington Post

"Finding it hard to resist that last bottle of Nuvo? Tara Handron understands and has the solution: a one-woman show."
— NBC Washington