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Review: Kaspar Hauser: A Foundling's Opera
Elizabeth Swados has always gone her own way, and her new music-theater piece, "Kaspar Hauser: A Foundling's Opera," is stamped with some of her familiar idiosyncrasies: the childlike perspective; the atonal operatics; the surreal dramatic landscape; the thematic obsession with abused and abandoned children.

Back Stage

Kaspar Hauser: A Foundling's Opera reviewed by Ronni Reich
The word opera doesn't mean singers roaring at the top of their lungs in stock roles and sustaining fever-pitch drama without respite.

TheaterMania

Review: Kaspar Hauser
Elizabeth Swados' new opera about the legendary German wild child has some good moments, but could use stronger melodies.

nytheatre.com

Review: Kaspar Hauser

CurtainUp

Review: Kaspar Hauser: A Foundling's Opera
Elizabeth Swados and Erin Courtney are not the first to use this story as a creative wellspring, but what they've created is mindbogglingly original and exciting

New York Times

Recalling When Entertainment Joined Education
“Chautauqua!” is a jaunty, stimulating new experiment that tests out an old form.

Back Stage

Chautauqua! reviewed by Gwen Orel
The design of the show adds to a festive mood, yet a theatrical riff on a lecture is still, in the end, a lecture

TheaterMania

Review: Chautauqua!
The National Theatre of the United States of America's take on the famous lecture circuit is consistently charming.

Culturebot

Chautauqua!!
Some of you may have seen the extraordinary work-in-progress extrav-o-rama preview of this at PRELUDE. If not, now’s your chance to be amazed and delighted by…..

'kül

Chautauqua!
At last, it has happened. Entertainment--with its gaudy lights and drooling lechers--has triumphed, and Intellectualism--with its gaudy brilliance and drooling lectures--has been shown the door. There to chronicle the collapse of both folk and high culture and the rise of mass culture is our very own National Theater of the United States who, from burlap potato-sacks to velvety red curtains, have brought the old-fashioned Chautauqua Lecture Circuit back to life--Chautauqua!

Gothamist

Opinionist: Chautauqua

New York Post

D.H. Lawrence play is in Mint condition
The Mint Theater has done it again. While the rest of the town's classical theater companies are mainly content to showcase the usual endless diet of Shakespeare, Chekhov, Williams and O'Neill, this invaluable company excavates forgotten works providing endless fascinations. Their current offering is the New York premiere of "The...

Variety

Review: The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd
...the compact piece a delicate staging that accentuates its characters' depths, and fine performances by Julia Coffey and Eric Martin Brown flesh out its central troubled marriage. The production is a major get for bookworms and theater buffs alike, repping a rare chance to see Lawrence's world alive on stage.

Back Stage

The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd reviewed by Karl Levett
In the Mint Theater Company's sterling production, Marion Williams' set — the spare, rat-infested interior of a cottage adjoining a Midlands colliery — has a border of gleaming black coal.

TheaterMania

Review: The Widowing of Mrs. Holyroyd
The Mint's New York premiere of D.H. Lawrence's play gives us an early glimpse at an artist of great stature in the process of finding his voice.

CurtainUp

Review: The Widowing of Mrs. Holyroyd
The invaluable Mint Theater recreates the atmosphere of D. H. Lawrence's own suffocating youth in a mining village.