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Evelyn Brown (A Diary)

“Pattern Recognition, Reconstructed: The Unlikely Return of Fornés’s Evelyn Brown” - American Theatre

“staged with surgical precision” - Lighting & Sound America

“a masterful experiment” - TheaterMania

““The play […] feels fresh and relevant, radical and alive, in a gorgeous and tender production that deserves wide notice.” - This Week in New York

Measure for Measure

“stunningly staged” – Berkshire Eagle 

“a clever, fast paced rendering of the script” – Mainstreet Magazine  

Cherry Orchard

“The group reacts to the approach of the unseen stranger by transforming into a snarling, howling pack whose baying can only be quieted by Ranyevskaya ceremoniously emptying out the last coins in her purse like a quiet blood sacrifice.” – The Theatre Times

“Seldom have I been so surprised and delighted by a moment in the theater.” – Oregon ArtsWatch, Marty Hughley

“This play is filled with so many moments of love and laughter, it is remarkable.” – Oregon ArtsWatch, Max Taponga

“Director Alice Reagan pumps up the comedy, coaxing out arresting physical performances from her entire ensemble.” – Portland Monthly

“It's possible to watch and enjoy on a number of levels: the physicality, the humor, the aching sorrow, all that white powder on Leo's (Cristi Miles’s) face…” – Portland Mercury

“Funny, poignant, weird…the whole ensemble is excellent.  Each character personifies a different human trait, which the actors bring to vivid life.” – Broadway World

Enter THE NIGHT

“In the hands of Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble, Enter the Night pulses with wonder, beauty and unexpected joy. Though the characters grapple with mortality, they’re motivated as much by love as by fear, and the show swings easily between serious reflection and giddy, generous comedy.” – Willamette Week

“The transitions between the playful and the poignant, the real and the dreamy, and the wildly energetic and the statuesquely still are very artfully orchestrated.” – The Oregonian

“PETE and director Reagan have pulled off an unpredictably surefooted production.” – The Portland Mercury

“Fornes’s original description of a pit flanked by planks, PETE’s stage goes further with a partial layer of fern-colored sand. It shifts, it sticks, it crumbles, it resists.” – Portland Monthly

“I didn’t realize I needed a theater like that until I saw it, a theater that refuses to contrive to make the audience feel superior.” – Oregon Artswatch

Nomads

“…in which trips are taken, but also aren’t, existential mirrors are looked through, and a house becomes a jungle.” – Brooklyn Rail

“Plot resolution isn’t Ms. Jarcho’s thing. And that’s great.” – New York Times

“But underneath the sense of playfulness lurks the creeping dread of something sinister, something broken—“ – New York Theatre Review

“Director Alice Reagan has an effective touch with the play’s complexity of tone.” – NY Theater Now

“Nomads […] makes the perfect going away party for the always-adventurous Incubator Arts Project.” – Village Voice

I Came to Look for You on Tuesday

“In Chiori Miyagawa’s stylish ensemble piece…” – New Yorker

“Reunions are frequent, though rarely between the living.” – Time Out NY

“a physically lovely and very stark production” – NY Theater Now

“…the pared down staging of this piece allows the emotional reality to resonate in a different way.” – HuffPost

“Under the direction of Alice Reagan, the eight cast members are uniformly strong.” – Talkin Broadway

“Direction is precise, clean, sharp and moving.” – Arts International