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"Matherson has plenty of movement on this small stage, but it never seems cluttered or messy. With so much happening in this show, it’s dizzying, but Matherson makes it all work like a jigsaw puzzle so that it adds to the necessary frenzy."
-Michelle F. Solomon, Florida Theatre On Stage
(Photo Credit: Gemini Film Productions - In Image: Sabrina Lynn Gore and Ernesto Gonzalez)
Murder Ballad
" To his credit, Matherson knows when to ratchet up suspense. In addition, he emphasizes tenderness, steaminess, vulnerability and unbridled, hard-core, almost primitive sexuality when the show calls for each of these."
-Aaron Krause, Theatrical Musings
(Image Credit: Tallglass Photography - In Image: Sabrina Lynn Gore, Niki Dikun, and Eric O'Keefe)
In The Heights
" Among their accomplishments is the creation of this community: a credibly broad spectrum of residents spanning age, sexual identity and most noticeably, physical types including dancers who range from rail-thin to pudgy. Everyone, even the leads, resemble the array of real people lounging outside a bodega. People in buzz cuts, dreads, emerald-tinted highlights and imaginative but credible street garb populate the stage on skateboards as women play jump rope, toughs in hoodies threaten club goers, punks try to snatch someone’s purse and people hang out on door stoops."
-Bill Hirshman, Florida Theatre On Stage
(Image Credit: Tallglass Photography - In Image: Spender Landis and Lauren Horgan)