Time Out New York: "The Umbrella Plays"

By Amelia Rae Koethen
August, 2008

**** (Four Stars)

The cast gives a mesmerizing and emotional performance, breaking some of the more tense moments by tossing water all over the stage. The Umbrella Plays offers the perfect balance between fighting your way through a thunderstorm and splashing in puddles.

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The Stranger: "my dear Lewis"

HE MIGHT BE GIANT
Visionary New Puppeteer Kyle Loven 

By Brendan Kiley
January 26, 2010

Young Seattle newcomer Kyle Loven just might be a burgeoning genius. His poetic, visionary solo puppet show my dear Lewis has all the spun-out imagination of a kid playing make-believe in an attic, plus all the technical proficiency of someone who's won a grant from the Jim Henson Foundation—which he has, along with big shots such as Mabou Mines, Ping Chong, and Basil Twist.

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NYTheatre.com: "Endurance"

By Heather McAllister
November 5, 2010

"Thrilling, engrossing, amusing, and brisk, with clever staging, innovative set manipulations, and masterfully overlapping and interwoven stories... Jason Bohon, Andrew Grusetskie, Michael F. Toomey, and Greg Webster are truly super studs of the American theatre... I left the play feeling inspired, and proud, wanting to scream it to the world: 'The theatre is not dead! It is vital, and valid and important!'"

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