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Press representative

Kathy Cortez

email: kathy@lightningstrikes.org

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email: media@lightningstrikes.org

 

Here's what they're saying about us:


"For sheer laughs, take in SINGLE BULLET THEORY. Full of sex, longing and plenty of profanity played for laughs, Single BULLET THEORY is the perfect antidote to the blues, the doldrums, or any other temporary malaise you might be suffering from."


Kessa De Santis, Electronic Link Journey, April 2002

"Funnier than DEATH OF A SALESMAN with more dialogue than BLUE MAN GROUP. SINGLE BULLET THEORY is rich and filled with twists and turns. A fine piece of work."

Eric Stoltz, actor

"The bedfellows keep getting stranger and stranger. Director John McDermott stages the amorous antics with a light touch and the company maintains a lively pace. The members of the cast are an admirable bunch. Reed Robins serves up winning original compositions and savvy sound design."

Elias Stimac, BACKSTAGE, 4/17/02

"This is an uproarious comedy."


Kessa De Santis, Electronic Link Journey, April 2002


"The glory of playwright Richard Harland Smith's work and Keith Oncale's direction is that it is so fine to listen to everything they (the characters) say. Each actor was indispensable to the play's success, and it speaks volumes to their talent that all characters seemed autochthonous (look it up!) to the milieu."


David Mackler, Off-Off Broadway Review, May 2001


"Playwright Barbara Herel, a sly observer of human flaws, has a soft spot for those (larvae) caught between growth and stagnation. The dark implications of her material is conveyed by expert comic turns from the 12 members of Lightning Strikes Theatre Company who also know how to exact a certain sadness from the proceedings."


Scott Makin, citysearch.com, August 2001


"The production is fascinatingly intellectual and bravely dramatic. It covers more ground in under two hours than plays twice its length."


David Mackler, Off-Off Broadway Review, May 2001


"Twelve plays in one sitting, and they leave the audience wanting more? What a tribute to the cast of Durang by the Dozen: No Guns No Sofas one of the best ensembles to liven a New York stage in recent seasons."
Adrienne Onofri, Off-Off Broadway Review, August 2000


"The costumes are terrific, and the actors who inhabit them are ridiculously talented. At the end of 2 1/2 hours, you can't believe that only 13 actors made so many characters come to life."


Peter Shaughnessey, Backstage


"The performances in Durang by the Dozen can make all concerned rejoice about the talent pool available Off-Off-Broadway."


Adrienne Onofri, Off-Off Broadway Review, August 2000


"Completely successful as an evening of exquisitely wrought theatre. Beautifully produced, intelligently directed, and vividly performed, this production of Crazyface proved Lightning Strikes Theatre Company a force to be reckoned with. "


Doug DeVita, Off-Off Broadway Review


"The play (Crazyface) has a riveting text, and this production by the Lightning Strikes Theatre Company under the direction of Alexandra Ornitz is an artistic tour de force."


Lucy Komisar, American Reporter


"(LSTC) conjured up some hair-raising theatricality of the sort rarely delivered Off-Off Broadway."


Marshall Yeager, Off-Off Broadway Review


"Lightning Strikes Theatre's current production (Our Country's Good) , with its pocket-size stage and limited facilities, works beautifully. It is far more affecting than many another more-elaborate attempt."


Irene Backelenick, BACKSTAGE, June 1998


"The ensemble continues to work its magic."


Irene Backelenick, BACKSTAGE, June 1998


"The strength and competence of the cast is a pleasure to see (God's Country)."


The Village Voice, June 1996