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"Ten blocks and yet light years away..."

posted by Cheshire on Wed, Mar 5, 2008

The East Bay Express also loves Jukebox Stories: The Case of the Creamy Foam, especially in comparison to another current theatre offering nearby.

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"A sure crowd-pleaser!"

posted by Cheshire on Sat, Dec 1, 2007

So says Sam Hurwitt of A Very Special Money & Run Winter Season Holiday Special in the East Bay Express. He also says it's "pretty damn entertaining" and "more fun than your average holiday offering."

While we're on the subject, Ken Bullock of the Berkeley Daily Planet said the show is "hysterical" and that the cast "does well, with Jeremy Forbing’s direction, in this burlesque of road and buddy pics, caper flicks, and pious holiday fare."

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Chad Jones likes Sleepy!

posted by Cheshire on Mon, Sep 10, 2007

Chad Jones of the Oakland Tribune posted his review of Sleepy yesterday, and he gives it three stars out of four, writing: "Director Dawn Monique Williams and her six actors--Gabriel A. Ross, Pamela Davis, Seth Thygesen, Marissa Keltie, John Terrell and Jessica Kiely--keep us on the verge of expecting the unexpected, which is a perfectly fine place to be for the show’s brisk 60 minutes.... By play’s end, everyone is seeing ghosts or feeling something sinister lurking unseen in the corners. And with that uneasy feeling, Impact and Sleepy send us happily into the real world of darkness outside the theater walls."

Read the whole review on Chad's excellent theatre blog, Theater Dogs.

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More great reviews for Measure

posted by Cheshire on Sat, Apr 28, 2007

The praise is continuing to roll in...

"The three central performances in Hillman's production are rock solid.... Hillman has a few tricks up her sleeve, and even if it means re-writing Shakespeare in the play’s final moments, let it be said that her inventions seem much more in tune with the violent, hot-tempered tone of the play."
--Oakland Tribune (read review)

"[Jeremy Forbing] is in all ways hilarious as Lucio.... Get ready for a shocking final few seconds. Think the ending of The Departed, where everything can turn on a dime, and leave you stunned, silent, and frozen before your next breath.... I can tell you right now, it isn’t what you think."
--PlayShakespeare.com (read review)

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Well...?

posted by Cheshire on Sat, Apr 21, 2007

What did you think of Measure for Measure?

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Now on the Splatter Board: YOUR review of Cartoon

posted by Cheshire on Thu, Feb 8, 2007

Everyone's a critic, right? Well, prove it by letting us know what you thought of Cartoon on the Impact Splatter Board. Log in and praise or damn as you like.

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More raves for Colorado!

posted by Cheshire on Thu, Sep 28, 2006

Colorado continues to rack up the compliments! UC Berkeley's Daily Cal can't say enough nice things -- here are just a few: "Colorado is a must-see...deliciously deranged...wickedly funny...a smart, beautifully written piece of theatre." Read the whole thing.

The Oakland Tribune says, "We expect certain things from Colorado: big laughs, twisted subject matter and a provocative surprise or two. Nachtrieb is a skillful writer, and the new play delivers on all counts..."

The Trib also ran a teen perspective on the play (Leslie Ribovich, the teen reviewer, is going to shows along with the paper's main theatre critic, Chad Jones). Leslie crows about the show's "raw, hilarious family drama," and she was wowed overall: "I'd never seen a show at Impact and am really impressed with the quality of the production. Impact creates a whole theatrical experience."

Sam Hurwitt of the East Bay Express filed a capsule review this week. Here's our favorite excerpt: "...the dialogue contains enough belly laughs to carry the show, and newcomer Elkhanah Pulitzer's production delivers them handily. Adrienne Papp is a knockout as the MIA terror in a tiara, all sugar and spite and vicious superficiality, and Klahr Thorsen shows where the venom comes from as the brittle, sympathy-pie-hoarding mother. Joshua Huston is funny and endearing as introverted brother Travis..."

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Raves for Colorado!

posted by Cheshire on Mon, Sep 25, 2006

"INSPIRED COMEDY... funny, sassy, and often penetrating... Nachtrieb has a keen eye for the ridiculous excesses in American culture."--San Francisco Chronicle

"HUGELY FUNNY... examines the world of marriage and family with a lethally loving eye... Nachtrieb has his finger on the pulse of the suburban zeitgeist... Director Elkhanah Pulitzer has paced the show to sizzle."--Contra Costa Times

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