Ken Roht's 99cent Calendar Girl Competition

"achieves absolute synthesis with this marvelous gloss on beauty pageants and the politics of image...The entire cast is sublime, with breathtaking choral blend and an exemplary ensemble ethic..."

-LA Times

"This year’s 28-strong, pitch-perfect company generates enough singing and dancing power to light up an entire Broadway season..."

-LA Weekly

Working with ARTEL

"The advertisement said ‘ARTEL’ would perform songs, poems, etudes and compositions ...But in the tradition of the Grotowski and Gardzienice theater groups from Poland, this Laboratory Ensemble didn’t want me to go anywhere…they wanted me to stay right there with them, using one unlikely trick to keep us cemented to our seats: They didn’t say a word...

A young man (Marc Devine) with a tape recorder hammers away at an old typewriter, then slowly extract from it its white sheet of paper, chews it down then leaves us to listen to the sound of his recorded typing. ....

ARTEL is at its best when its skilled band of Clowns, amidst set pieces picked up on the street and adorned in costumes that cross gender, time and space, tantalize us into participation using grunts, squeaks and mocking laughter instead of words....."

-LA TACO - GOGOL MOGUL TEA ROOM - January 9, 2007