Waxing West enjoyed an enthusiastic reception from the New York media. Please find below a selection of the performance's reviews.

• The New York Times, April 17, 2007: Go West, Young Woman (Ceausescu Ghosts Too) by Wilborn Hampton
  "Waxing West,” Saviana Stanescu’s intriguing and entertaining new play at La MaMa E.T.C., is an attempt at exorcism, and it is perhaps a hopeful sign that the Ceausescus are ridiculed here as bloodthirsty clowns." (...) Daniela is a free spirit. Certainly she, a sort of Holly Golightly of Bucharest, has foibles of her own (...) Marnye Young is captivating as Daniela, a resilient and resourceful young woman with a twinkle in her eye and a touch of larceny in her heart that are irresistible. Grant Neale and Alexis McGuinness are delightfully malevolent as the Ceausescus. The rest of the eight-member cast, under Benjamin Mosse’s brisk direction, are all good, especially Kathryn Kates as Daniela’s mother and Dan Shaked as her brother, Elvis."
  
• backstage.com, April 10, 2007: Waxing West, by Irene Backalenick
  "Waxing West is a unique take on the immigrant experience -- specifically a Romanian woman's struggle to adapt to an American world. Playwright Saviana Stanescu has created a world gone awry, in which time lurches sideways and nightmares dominate reality. (...) Stanescu has created a nonlinear piece, taking great liberties with the time frame, and she draws no boundaries between the living and the dead. Still, despite its offbeat format, the story moves forward clearly, and family scenes are lifted from the real world. Stanescu has a gift for creating all-too-believable exchanges among the mother, son, and daughter in Bucharest and between the brother and sister in New York. Such scenes are funny, sharp, and often heartbreaking."
  
• nytheatre.com, April 12, 2007: Waxing West, by Martin Denton
  "Which is why a play like Saviana Stanescu's Waxing West is so important. (...) The ensemble is excellent, with particularly memorable work coming from Grant Neale as Ceaucescu, Marnye Young as Daniela, and Dan Shaked and Kathryn Kates as her brother and mother. Stanescu's writing is remarkable, shifting non-linearly back and forth through the parts of Daniela's story in a way that resembles the random patterns of memory, and constantly rooted in a laughter-through-tears absurdism that reminds us that Ionesco was also a Romanian emigre. (Note: Stanescu's play Aurolac Blues is published in NYTE's anthology Plays and Playwrights 2006)."
  
• News Blaze, March 17, 2007: East Coast Artists in "Waxing West", a Surreal Journey between Romania and NY, by Koen Machielse