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SARAH JONES’ BRIDGE & TUNNEL
"Humor, compassion, and daring have more often found a place in solo performance. This form frees gifted artists to change sex, race, age, body type and personality in an instant. It takes great craft and generosity. Sarah Jones has both. You see this in every moment of her new show Bridge & Tunnel. HILARIOUS! FLAWLESS!" -NY Times
"The brilliant Sarah Jones delivers an exciting, explosive evening" -NY Post
"One of the funniest, most creative, and delightful outings I've seen in ages.
THIS IS GREAT THEATER!" -Liz Smith
GUANTANAMO: HONOR BOUND TO DEFEND FREEDOM
"It opens a door that our theater has foolishly kept shut.
Crisply staged... Extremely well acted." -Village Voice
"Deeply moving... exerts an icy visceral charge." -NY Times
"You may find your mind-set profoundly challenged by this
skillfully assembled, moving documentary-style work." -The Washington
WHITE CHOCOLATE
"[White Chocolate] is the Funniest Play I have seen in my 8 years of reviewing!
Ludicrously Hysterical!" -David Richardson, WOR Radio
"Frantic Fun! The cast is Flawless!" -John Simon, New York Magazine
"A Witty Farce! The Comic Performance Of The Year!
Reg E. Cathey & Lynn Whitfield are Marvelous!" -Time Out New York
BELFAST BLUES
"Heartfelt and Funny!" -New York Times
"A whirlwind performance!" -New York Post
"Extraordinary and moving... Comedic Brilliance! " -Associated Press
BORDER/CLASH: A Litany of Desires
"Fierce, ferocious and slyly funny"
- The New York Times
"Gifted and immensely likable! Rhythmic gold!"
- The Village Voice
"Funny, touching and endlessly charming. THIS WILL ONE OF THE BEST MOMENTS ONSTAGE THIS YEAR" -Broadway.com
"She's a knockout"
- Time Out New York
"Chin seems capable of fostering a revolution! She's as superhuman as a fury... and is giving voice to an entire population made silent by fear"
- Variety
GUARDIANS
An Urgent Theatrical Event! ForcefulL! A play that can whip frenzy out of vibrant ideas!
Mark Blakenship, Variety
POWERFUL! “Guardians” is painted in COMPELLING CONTRASTING COLORS.
Charles Isherwood, NY Times
“Guardians” is THOUGHTFUL and THOUGHT PROVOKING! Lee Pace has a DEVASTATING turn as a tabloid journalist. The Culture Project consistently manages to acquit itself with HONORS! KUDOS!
Jerry Weinstein, Curtain Up
A TAUTLY STAGED, NERVE-JANGLING PRODUCTION! An evening of theater that REWARDS THEATERGOERS BOTH INTELLECTUALLY AND EMOTIONALLY!
Andy Propst, American Theater Web
AMAJUBA: LIKE DOVES WE RISE
I've never seen a show at the Culture Project that wasn't brilliantly written, politically provocative, and aesthetically piquant, and its current offering, Amajuba: Like Doves We Rise, is no exception.
-- Backstage
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THE EXONERATED
Comments of Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno
On The Exonerated
January 16, 2003
“What we have seen and heard tonight, what we have seen in terms of what Governor Ryan has done, [and what] we have seen in the faces of the people who are here tonight, make it clear that every single lawyer in America, everyone who cares about law in America, must renew our efforts to find the truth. What has been done tonight through this play is one of the most extraordinary events I have ever seen and it will do more to promote justice than any literary efforts I have seen. Thank you so much, all of you who have been involved, for this wonderful performance. But most of all, thank you who [have] survived, through perseverance. You are our heroes.”
Comments of Senator Patrick Leahy
On The Exonerated
January 17, 2003
“The Exonerated goes into the shadows of a system that is alien and disorienting.
It is brilliantly conceived, staged and acted, but its soul-scouring and heart-wrenching power comes by opening a window on to a broken system whose mistakes ripple out to roil countless lives, and whose score is tolled in life and death.
The Exonerated is as timely as this mornings’ paper, but it tells its true stories in a way that news stories and editorials can never match.”
Lawrence Marshall views The Exonerated
From Amnesty International Spring 2004 issue of Amnesty Now
After seeing the special Chicago performance on The Exonerated, I will never again doubt the power of art as an engine of political change. This December 16, 2002 performance was stages for then-Govenor George Ryan, who was deciding whether to commute the sentences of all 171 inmates on Illinois’ death row. Also attending were three dozen men exonerated after being sentences to death—including five whose stories are told in the play. As I watched the all-star cast (Richard Dreyfus, Danny Glover, Mike Farrell, and others), my gaze often shifted to Ryan, who held so many lives in his hands. There was no mistaking the intensity of his interest and reaction. Three weeks later, as he announced his decision to clear death row, I knew that evening of theater had affected his understanding of the issues and his decision.
Each time I see The Exonerated, I remember the first time I met a wrongly-convicted death row inmate. Spending hours in a small room with that innocent man, scheduled to be killed, by his own state, was almost too much to bear. The Exonerated—by using the actual words of six innocent inmates—takes me back on that journey into hell.
Yet, despite despair over our criminal justice system, each of the six stories in the play carries a triumphant tale of courage and human fortitude that led, against all odds, to the exaltation of truth over power. In the end, there is hope.
I never walk out of this play unchanged. No one does.
This is the measure of true art.
“Exhilarating” – New York Magazine (The Exonerated)
“The #1 Drama in New York City” – Zagat/Wall Street Journal (The Exonerated) |
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