The Los Angeles Times blog called "This," the new play at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, "marvelous." In a review published on August 8, Charles McNulty said the play about an "interracial couple going through a rough patch in their marriage after having their first baby" abounds in "wit, cleverness and surprise," and he observed that messiness is real subject of the play:

That messiness turns out to be the main subject of Gibson’s highly Chekhovian drama — it’s the “this” of her slightly annoying but apt title. The playwright’s manner might be quirky in a 21st century fashion that relishes language games and can bear realism only if it’s allowed maximum fluidity, but her vision bears striking similarities to her Russian predecessor, who wanted to capture the experience of human transience, the consciousness of time passing as life assembles itself in ways that are rarely in accord with our dreams and expectations.

Then on August 14, the Los Angeles Times profiled playwright and actress, Eisa Davis.The profile not only pointed out that Davis was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in drama in 2007 for her play "Bulrusher," but also that she is the niece of political activist and author Angela Davis. Speaking about Eisa Davis' autobiographical 2009 musical memoir "Angela's Mixtape," Angela Davis is quoted as saying:

"I came to recognize how difficult it must have been for [Eisa] to make her own way through a web of expectations about education, career paths and political commitments," Angela Davis says. "The play allowed me to more deeply appreciate the determination with which she created her own path."