Мистер Смит едет в Вашингтон
Reviewing a 1992 production, "Variety" described "Houses" as reminiscent of — but "far more bleak and despairing than" — "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" and "Born Yesterday", calling it "bitter" and "cynical", and assessing the play's message as "heavy-handed" and its characters as "tend(ing) to two-dimensionality."