"In their vulnerabilities, all [the women of Ladyhouse Blues] are strong ... Mr. O'Morrison has given them everything in abundance: distinctive human voices, busy hands that belong to people, humor and despair as good companions, an aura of wistful poetry behind all that is so animated, so stubborn, so ignorant, so innocent. He is beyond question a playwright to be nourished and waited for." --Walter Kerr, The New York Times

Ladyhouse Blues tells the stories of the women in one St. Louis family who await the retun of husbands, sons, and lovers from World War I during the spring of 1919, just as America is losing its innocence.