RICH ROSE DESIGN

PACIFIC RESIDENT THEATRE

Directed by Marilyn Fox & Dana Jackson

“Scenic design by Rich Rose and prop design by Doug Prazak are intricate, textured, and richly evocative. It is a truly gorgeous set, so exquisitely capturing the magical realism of The Bespoke Overcoat that you can feel the mood powerfully even before the play begins. I was charmed by all the elaborate vintage details, the racks of midcentury coats, the tailor’s shop, little things like the long hook to retrieve the coats from the upper racks. There is a thoughtful and intricate world-building in this production that really stands out to me. “

• Amanda Callas, Broadway World

“Pacific Resident Theatre’s scenically striking production…”

• Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times

“…a setting that harkens back to a simpler time… Rich Rose’s proletarian-evoking set…establish(es) the play’s somber and unassuming moods at the outset…this is where those of lower-middle class stature toil day and night, for scant shillings.”

• Imaan Jalali , LA Excites

“Rich Rose’s intricate set design is perfect for the story… The audience will be transported to a quieter, moodier time…”

• Elaine Mura, Splash Magazines

“And the story is enhanced by a well-designed set (Rich Rose) that felt authentic as a 1950’s tailor shop center stage and an apparel warehouse stage right.”

• G. Bruce Smith, STAGE RAW

“The stagecraft from top to bottom is stunning. Lighting design and stage design are a wonder to behold. One feels we've stepped into a different time or different frequency of detail and classic somberness. “

• Michael Edwards, Discover Hollywood Magazine

“Scenic designer Rich Rose’s set deftly combines the locations delineated in the play…which takes place in London’s East End.”

• Ed Rampell, Hollywood Progressive

“Scenic design by Rich Rose effectively takes the audience from Ranting’s garment factory to Morry’s small coat shop, as well as other locations necessary to transport us to these two poor men’s world.”

• Sharri Barrett, Stage and Cinema

“The set design in this intimate theater by Rich Rose makes you feel you are almost right inside Morry’s tailor shop. His attention to detail includes having the Hebrew word for tailor (“schrieber”) painted outside the shop. The racks of coats in the warehouse where Fender works reinforce the theme of warmth and plenty that are denied to this hardworking, lonely old man.”

• Judy Gruen, Jewish Journal

ACTOR’S CO-OP Crossley Theatre

Directed by Linda Kerns

World Premiere of a New Play

“The story opens on an image of chaos and devastation (Rich Rose’s scenic design, constructed by Joel Daavid) is a remarkable model of ravage and ruination.“

• Deborah Klugman - STAGE RAW

“The detailed and powerful set design by Rich Rose and props work by Lori Berg set the mood the moment you enter the Crossley Theater. I've seldom seen an empty theater that conveys so much before the show even starts. With a mostly destroyed house and belongings and natural debris spread everywhere, the audience is instantly immersed in the devastation after a tornado. The wrap-around design of this theatre works particularly poignantly for this play, since there is no barrier between the audience and the stage, masterfully lit in ambers, blues and rubies by Derrick McDaniel. The sense of mood is palpable, and the sense of place is overwhelming and intimate. You feel like you are on the scene of the disaster yourself. The sound design by David B. Marling is profoundly haunting.”

• Amanda Callas - Discover Hollywood Magazine

“Rich Rose’s set makes it clear even before the play has started that the twister that’s swept through a small Oklahoma town has left nothing but rubble in it’s wake.”

• Steven Stanley - StageScene LA

PACIFIC RESIDENT THEATRE

Directed by Guillermo Cienfuegos

2020 OPENING Cancelled due to COVID-19 Shutdown Restrictions

ACTORS CO-OP Crossley Theatre

Directed by Nan McNamara

LA STAGE SCENE AWARD - OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION DESIGN INTIMATE THEATER

ROBBY AWARD - NOMINATION - BEST SCENIC DESIGN

LA STAGE ALLIANCE - OVATION “O!” RECOMMENDED

STAGE RAW - TOP TEN RECOMMENDED

5 STARS - BROADWAY WORLD

“Scenic designer Rich Rose has created an aesthetically pleasing, impersonally pristine living room, impressively transforming a tiny black box into an enviable summer home ”.

- Taylor Kass - STAGE RAW

“Rich Rose’s scenic design furnishes an appropriate backdrop for the amnesic group…”

- Elaine Mura - Splash Magazines

“The theater’s seats surround the action on four sides, much like the body of water in the title. The use of white for the furniture and much of the clothing adds an ethereal touch, as though the living room is floating in the clouds.”

- Laura Foti Cohen - Larchmont Buzz

“The view in this isolated and quite lovely home proves spectacular — including a winding body of water which seems to surround them on all four sides.”

- Night Tinted Glasses

“And where are they? They are in a very luxurious and tastefully decorated house (great scenic design by Rich Rose) that seems to be surrounded on all four sides by water.”

- Rob Stevens - haines his way.com

“…the two strangers search for clues to their identities amid the coolly impersonal decor (scenic design by Rich Rose).”

- Phillip Brandes - Los Angeles Times

“The creative team deserves a nod. Rich Rose has created a rather elegant living room design with lovely furniture. How could this be hell?”

- Don Grigware - Broadway World

“Rich Rose, assisted by Mateo Rudich, has created an elegant scenic design that adds plausibility to the background story of Avis and Moss in terms of their social and economic position in society. It is a beautiful household setting with lovely modern furniture.”

- Observations Along the Road

“The Actors Co-op production is handsomely mounted with an ideal scenic design by Rich Rose…”

- Paul Myervold - Theater Notes

“Rich Rose’s elegant, mysterious, shades-of-white living room set…add up to as exquisite as in-the-round design as any theater or theater goer, could hope for..”

- Steven Stanley — StageSceneLA

PACIFIC RESIDENT THEATRE

Directed by Dana Jackson

LOS ANGELES TIMES - CRITICS CHOICE

STAGE RAW - TOP TEN RECOMMENDED

LA STAGE ALLIANCE - OVATION “O!” RECOMMENDED

CRITICS LEMON METER - 100% SWEET

“Amid the ongoing culture wars between urban-elite and blue-collar sensibilities, Melocchi’s play slyly reminds us the division can be bridged by our fundamental human need to create. In the process we can become something more than what our circumstances have shaped us to be”.

- Phillip Brandes - LA TIMES

“This Pacific Resident Theatre production is handsomely staged… The scenic design by Rich Rose … is splendid and filled with telling details. The stock of imbibables stacked on shelves and on the floor seems absolutely authentic for the times, and a big furnace hulks upstage…”

Paul Myrvold - Paul Myrvold Theatre Notes

“…Rich Rose’s detailed set — the backroom of a bar packed with stacked boxes of beer and a convincing steam boiler — greatly adds to the story’s authenticity.”

Terry Morgan - Stage Raw

“Dana Jackson directs on Rich Rose’s evocative concrete walled and cardboard box-laden set with a unique ability to keep things moving …”

Travis Michael Holder - Ticket Holders LA

“Kudos to scenic designer Rich Rose for his detailed Bonino’s storage room/office combo…”

Gil Kaan - Broadway World

“Rich Rose’s scenic design has just the right grimy feel, and the entire production staff functions with creative competence.”

Elaine Mura - Splash Magazines

“Wonderfully written, superbly performed, well-directed by Dana Jackson, perfect scenic design by Rich Rose, all makes for a production you won’t want to miss.”

Carol Kaufman Segal - Carol’s Culture Corner

4 Stars “excellent scenic design by Rich Rose”

Patricia Foster Rye - Larchmont Chronicle

“Scenic designer Rich Rose does a masterful job of setting the stage to period perfection and includes a few witty details of his own.”

Laura Foti Cohen - Larchmont Buzz

GUANGZHOU DRAMATIC ARTS CENTRE

GUANGZHOU, CHINA

THEATRE No. 13

Directed by Brian Kite

MAY 26, 2018

ACTOR'S CO-OP

DAVID SCHALL THEATRE

Directed by Thom Babbes

 March 2, 2018

CRITICS PICK - BROADWAY WORLD

WINNER - OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A DRAMA (INTIMATE THEATER) - STAGESCENELA

WINNER - BEST PRODUCTION IN AN INTIMATE SPACE - EDDON AWARDS

Director Thom Babbes keeps the action brisk on an Elizabethan-style set by Rich Rose that functions well, with scene changes ... that signal place and time.

(This production) is absorbing, thrilling theatre, that packs an emotional punch exactly when it should.

-Paul Myrvold
Paul Myrvold’s Theatre Notes

WOW! "The most gripping, thought-provoking, and ultimately quite moving theater in town".  "Scenic designer Rich Rose's set transforms ingeniously from residence to riverside to garden to inn to jail cell".

-Steven Stanley

STAGEsceneLA

"...and creative scenic design by Rich Rose which allowed the small space to quickly morph into so many locations..."

-Shari Barrett
Culver City News

4 STARS! "Don't miss A Man For All Seasons! It leaves you with much to think about at the final curtain. And...Actors Co-op has achieved the best possible production of Bolt's astounding play".  "Rich Rose's simple set design is appropriately stark to match the deeply dark mood of the play."

- Don Grigware

Broadway World

WILL GEER'S THEATRICUM BOTANICUM

Directed by Mary Jo Duprey

A family drama rife with emotional tension, relieved by moments of searing, hilarious black comedy...

...The Theatricum Botanicum outdoor stage reminds me so much of the Oregon Shakespeare
Festival’s Elizabethan stage in that elaborate settings are impossible as well as inappropriate. 
They must of necessity be relatively
simple, especially with a forest as a backdrop. 
Rich Rose’s set design suggests a
modern Palm Springs home with some
furniture, a copious array of
booze at the bar table, a lush carpet
and a Scandinavian fireplace. 
-Paul Myrvold
Paul Myrvold’s Theatre Notes

100%

- Better Lemons

4 STARS!

(Director Mary Jo Duprey)...heads straight for the souls of these characters, each of whom is utterly human.
Her cast is stupendous, in their individual
characterizations and working together as an ensemble to create a feeling of a family that knows itself and yet doesn’t.

...This play tells a very specific story
about this particular family. And yet the
entire opening-night audience was
noticeably gripped by it as the Wyeths‘
long-kept secret was recounted.
How many families have kept truths like
these to themselves? How many have
been torn apart by politics and war, in
America and perhaps in those
“other desert cities” halfway across the world?
-Dany Margolies
Los Angeles Daily News
L. A. Drama Critics Circle

For us Southern California natives, the desert (Palm Springs) is recognizable and familiar.  Baitz uses the setting for the family reunion at Christmas, fully aware of the absurdity of a fully decorated Yule tree.

-Libby Motika

Palisades News

Director MaryJo DuPrey helms the production with a compassionate hand...  And what can I say about the venue? The production team has, as always, managed to convert a mountainside into a home.

- Elaine L. Mura

Splash Magazines

Scenic designer Rich Rose has cleverly transformed Theatricum Botanicum's outdoor stage into the Wyeths' spacious Palm Springs home, kudos...

-Steven Stanley

STAGEsceneLA

AMDA

Directed by Richard Israel

In the Heat of the Night - 2014-2015

dir: Brian Kite

Judgment at Nuremberg — 2016-2017

dir: Brian Kite

The Mountaintop -- 2018

dir: Shirley Jo Finney

Steel Magnolias -- 2018-2019

dir: Brian Kite

SEVEN — 2019-2020

dir: Alexis Jacknow

ACTORS CO-OP THEATRE

Directed by Richard Israel

5 STARS
...a brilliant gem...
In this fascinating multi-cultural
version...Actors Co-op has a winner opening
the new season.
Scenic designer Rich Rose...had his hands full
making an empty stage come alive.  
-Elaine L. Mura
Splash Magazine

5 MUST-SEE THEATER PRODUCTIONS
HAPPENING IN OCTOBER.
If you’ve never seen a play, or you’ve seen them
all but need to be reminded of what the very best
ones can do, Thornton Wilder’s 1938 classic
is your best opportunity this month. 
-Dany Margolis
TimeOut Los Angeles

On balance, director Richard Israel’s large
multi-ethnic ensemble turn in
sound perfromances.
-Lovell Estell III
STAGE RAW

Inspired direction, refreshing diversity
in casting, and striking production design
breathe fresh new life into Our Town...
...in a class by itself...
Scenic designer Rich Rose’s deliberately
stark white brick-walled set...add(s) to
this Our Town’s appeal...
Classic American theater at its most
powerfull...
...stunning new take...
-Steven Stanley
StageScene LA

LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

Directed by Brian Kite

LA STAGE SCENE AWARD OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION DESIGN LARGER THEATER

BROADWAYWORLD NOMINATION BEST SCENIC DESIGN

7 LA STAGE ALLIANCE OVATION NOMINATIONS

OVATION AWARD NOMINATION BEST MUSICAL LARGE THEATRE

OVATION AWARD NOMINATION BEST DIRECTOR

...a truly remarkable and thrilling experience!...an updating and improvement on the original--allowing for more fluidity thanks to superior (and more insightful use of) large screen projections... The Scenic and Video Projection Designs, by Rich Rose and Jonathan Infante respectively, are a marvel of symbiotic composition and placement... "Before the Lobotomy" is arguably one of the most jaw-dropping sequences...surrounded (literally) by a wall of stars. ...your senses will be dazzled

- Leo Buck

BROADWAY STARS

...the production’s musical and technical virtuosity combine to create a dazzling, dizzying, often surreal theatrical experience.
The upstage wall at first features rows and rows of colorful rock and pop culture icons - yet once the action begins, the wall becomes a video screen...one that mirrors early MTV. ... The projections mesh with Rich Rose’s scenic design...to create a uniform, rock concert-like look. ... The La Mirada team deserves high praise for its consummate fusing of material, format and resources in the service
of great theater. 
-Eric Marchese
OC Register

Scenic designer Rich Rose gives these American Idiots plenty of room on which to dance, while adding appropriate (scenery) along the way... Aiding immeasurably is (a) video (projection design) of
non-stop LED visuals...that make it instantly clear precisely where we are...all the while dazzling us with their mix of the real and the phantasmic
-Steven Stanley
StageSceneLA

...immensly successful...
The success of this production is the cumulation of a powerhouse creative team behind the scenes
-Ivan Steel
Ivan Steel Presents

...truly remarkable production...  ...anchored upstage by a huge eye-popping wall of LED multi-media screens...
...from a creative and technical standpoint, this AMERICAN IDIOT is exceedingly blessed.  Rich Rose’s mostly asphalt-gray urban scenic designs serve as a useful backdrop...
...this is the AMERICAN IDIOT that audiences will and should
seek out...
In essence, Kite and company created more searing, hypnotically poetic visuals to accompany the already enjoyable music.
-Michael L. Quintos
Broadway World

...video projections are first rate. The wall of media over-saturation for the opening number gives way to appropriate backgrounds...
-Sharon Perlmutter
Talkin’ Broadway

ACTOR'S CO-OP

DAVID SCHALL THEATRE

Directed by Thom Babbes

CRITICS PICK

- Los Angeles Times

This exceptional Actor's Co-op revival...avoid(s) cliched pitfalls, embracing the humanity...Kudos to an superb design team...everyone is on the same page -- William's -- around designer Rich Rose's principal set.  It would be unthinkable to miss.

- David C. Nichols

Los Angeles Times

In a handsome production...beautifully staged...Scenic designer Rich Rose makes full use of the stage to represent Glorious Hill, Mississippi with the town square in the foreground, people passing by in the background...When the actors cross behind from one side to another, the fountain and the statue Eternity are constantly in view, reminding us of one of the play's complex themes

- Don Grigware

Broadway World

Rich Rose's scenic design honors William's stated wishes to striking effect with it's great expanse of sky, walls...just barely suggested, and elevated stone angel forming a harmonious whole

-Steven Stanley

StageSceneLA

What a wonderful show!! Every element was meticulously crafted creating a jewel of infinite perfection...a cohesive, well-oiled machine, tuned to perfection...a fantastic finished production

-Steve Zall

Latheaterbeat.com

ACTOR'S CO-OP

DAVID SCHALL THEATRE

Directed by Richard Israel

In the cozy sofa painting of a French Village that scenic designer Rich Rose has provided, the baker’s travails unfold amid small-town squabbles that get set aside when a larger disruption occurs
-Daryl H. Miller
Los Angeles Times

Beautifully staged....Baker’s Wife is mounted scrumptuously...
Rich Rose’s scenic design is simple, yet alluring.
It’s a lovely production
-Don Grigware
Broadway World

It’s as joyous as theater can be...
the set in the 99 seat theater is vibrant and interactive, easily providing the backdrop of the townsquare as well as the bakery
-Harker Jones
Edge Media Network

...a delicate, tuneful, tres charmant
gem of a musical...
Scenic designer Rich Rose’s impressionist painter’s
dream of an outdoor-indoor set with it’s
picturesque town square and bakery filled with loaves of bread and assorted knick-knacks...
-Steven Stanley
StageSceneLA

Rich Rose’s picturesque set and
Wendell C. Carmichael’s Tuscany-inspired costume design lend a vintage peasant charm to the visuals
-Ellen Dostal
Musicals in LA

...this lightweight Gallic souffle (is) buoyantly entertaining.
...handsomely designed production
-Les Spindle
Frontiers Media

MOSAIC LIZARD THEATRE

Directed by Cameron Parker and Cameron Rose

"A Spider-Man Christmas is alternately
corny, campy, and clever, with enough
in-jokes to delight Spider-Man aficionados but not so many as to spoil the fun for those less familiar with the Marvel oeuvre.

Rich Rose’s scenic design gives A
Spider-Man Christmas just the right
comic book look, and the scene changing panel is an ingenious touch.

With so many A Christmas Carols,
It’s A Wonderful Lifes, Nutcrackers, and
other Christmas chestnuts filling local
stages every December, it’s refreshing
to find out-of-the-ordinary holiday fare
this time of year".

- Steven Stanley
  STAGE scene LA

LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

Directed by Richard Israel

9 LA STAGE ALLIANCE OVATION AWARD NOMINATIONS

BROADWAY WORLD NOMINATION for BEST SCENIC DESIGN

OVATION AWARD WINNER for BEST MUSICAL LARGE THEATRE

OVATION AWARD WINNER BEST DIRECTOR

L.A. DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER BEST MUSICAL DIRECTION

CRITICS CHOICE - Los Angeles Times

"The seating on the stage (the auditorium
hovers empty and dark like the
undiscovered cavern that lured poor Floyd) lends an irresistable immediacy to this dreamlike allegory".
- Los Angeles Times

"I had never seen anything like it, and it grew on me slowly.  But I can’t stop thinking about ”Floyd Collins,” the odd haunting musical about the Kentucky cave explorer. This offbeat creation, with its horrifying subject matter returns to affecting life in Richard Israel’s irrestibly intimate staging.

Floyd spends the bulk of the action immobile, but not before shuffling through tunnels
cleverly evoked by Rich Rose’s set".
- Margaret Gray
  Los Angeles Times

"Scenic designer Rich Rose suggests the
expanses of the cave. Yet with the
audience only a few feet away from the
actors, he has the ability to preserve the
sense of claustrophobia of the scenes set inside the cave".
- Don Shirley
   LA Observed

"Rich Rose’s pleasingly spare set..."
- Eric Marchese
  Orange County Register 

"The openness of Rich Rose’s scenic design allows plenty of room for the imagination to  take over while providing surprising touches".
- Musicals in LA

"Rich Rose’s scenic design pulls us right in, on top of the action".
- Broadway World

"Rich Rose’s ingenious, semi-abstract scenic design allows Floyd to explore twisting-and-turning tunnels and caves".
- Steven Stanley
   STAGE scene LA 

LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

Directed by Brian Kite

OVATION AWARD WINNER BEST DIRECTOR

LOS ANGELES TIMES CRITIC SCORE: A

"Rich Rose’s marvelously detailed re-creation of a late 19th-century high school classroom, feeds the musical’s themes of guilt, shame,confusion, isolation, and poignant longing.  Rarely is such frank material and naked,
raw emotion given such heft, making this
staging heartbreakingly honest".

- Eric Marchese
   Backstage LA

"Thanks to Rich Rose’s authentic-looking
classroom set, the staging’s look works
in concert with its themes for an evening
that’s both emotionally sensitive
and musically alive".

- Eric Marchese
  Orange County Register

"Scenic designer Rich Rose gives
Spring Awakening a meticulously detailed
backdrop that reflects the worlds
in which these teen characters
live".

- Steven Stanley
   STAGE scene LA

"Set design by Rich Rose, this team
is to be commended for taking
this show to a 
higher level".

- Lee Runnels
   Orange County Coast

UCLA

Directed by Lainie Kazan

UCLA

Directed by Michael McLain

BACK ALLEY THEATER

Directed by Alan Miller

"Prison sets are often dull, but designer Rich Rose came up with the idea of putting Elsa's cell and the interrogator's office on two "islands" with a fissure between them -- an emblem of division that's not taken too far".

"A good designer can find poetry anywhere, even in jail.  Days and Nights Within at The Back Alley Theatre takes place in an East Berlin prison in 1950.  That's as gray a background as a play can have, and the designer can't do cute tricks with it.  

But Rich Rose didn't read this as a mandate to be boring.  He splits the prison into two sectors, set at slightly different levels -- one representing a party interrogator's office, the other representing the heroine's cell.  The crack between them could have been caused by an earthquake, but also suggested the division between two different ways of thinking -- the male interrogator's straight-line kind and the female prisoner's imagistic kind.  

And each character kept crossing each other's boundary.  This struck at least one viewer more deeply than anything that was actually said in the play.

Rose's stucco walls also took light well, sometimes suggesting the similarity between a prison cell and a nun's narrow chamber.  At other times the light would take us into one of the prisoner's nightmares, at which point the prison would, in effect, disappear.  Mr. Rose knows how to defer".  

- Dan Sullivan

  Los Angeles Times

UCLA

Directed by Michael Mclain

BACK ALLEY THEATER

Directed by Michael Arabian

DRAMALOGUE AWARD for BEST SET DESIGN

LA WEEKLY AWARD for BEST SET DESIGN

CRITICS CHOICE - LA DAILY NEWS

PICK OF THE WEEK - LA WEEKLY

"Being a thrust stage house, the Taper's sets tend to be sculptural.  Picture-frame stages encourage picture-frame settings, and there can be great pleasure in mentally entering the picture and noticing that the details are absolutely right.  An example was Rich Rose's set for the Back Alley's Found a Peanut, a wire-fenced apartment courtyard with just enough of a "yard" for the kids in the play to bury a dead bird".

- Dan Sullivan

  Los Angeles Times

"...director Michael Arabian is greatly aided by Rich Rose's stark, depressing set."

- Sylvie Drake

Los Angeles Times

 "From the moment we see Rich Rose’s superb, stark set, we realize that nothing here has been filtered through the gauze of selective nostalgia."

- Tom Jacobs

LA Daily News

“We’re staring into a bleak concrete jungle of a back yard: broken chain-link fencing and trash and a pitiful patch of earth, all shadowed by apartment buildings. (The splendid set is by Rich Rose).”

- Richard Stayton

Los Angeles Herald Examiner

“…a harsh, urban street scene, superbly designed by Rich Rose, to create a “playing field” for the volatile game of children.”

- Daily Variety

“Special mention must be made of Rich Rose’s set, the kind of brick, asphalt cyclone fenced milieu that hardly registers in our consciousness today, but which once provided us with a universe of possibilities.”

- Steven Mikulan

LA Weekly

“The Back Alley has provided a first-rate technical production, headed by scenic designer Rich Rose’s excellent backyard setting showing a deteriorating middle-class housing unit with wire fences which youth gangs have torn apart.”

- Lee Melville

Drama-Logue

“Beautifully staged on Rich Rose’s stupendous set…”

- Lenore Blossom

Dining & Entertainment Guide

“The believability of the piece is aided by the completeness of the realistic set designed by Rich Rose…”

The Burbank Times

METRO MEDIA STUDIOS HOLLYWOOD

Directed by Robert Wilson

"...visually it could have passed for a finished Wilson work.  A big one at that.  And although not a literal account of the play, it was King Lear.  The audience sat in risers, opposite a wide stretch of earth that sometimes suggested Lear's heath and sometimes put you in mind of a shoreline, with a strip of ground lights for the water.  A simple space, in  any case."

- Dan Sullivan

  Los Angeles Times

THE BACK ALLEY THEATER

Directed By Alan Miller

Starring Rue McClanahan and John Anderson

"The production's rousing success at the Back Alley has everything to do with splendid casting, acting, directing and production values".

"Good set by Rich Rose complements the production". 

- Los Angeles TImes

  Sylvie Drake 

"...shows that endured were tougher and ran longer.  In the Sweet Bye and Bye (Back Alley), Wrestlers (Cast), and A Voyage to Arcturus (Odyssey) were at least three pieces that transcended their imperfections to capture the heart or the imagination".

- Los Angeles Times

  Lawrence Christon 

THE BACK ALLEY THEATRE

Directed by Allan Miller

THEATER 40 - THE RUEBEN CORDOVA THEATRE

Directed by Gary Ellerman

THE BACK ALLEY THEATRE

Directed by Allan Miller

"A Southern Californian is reminded of Watts Towers. and one of Hogans' sub-themes (we get it from Rich Rose's set) is the blunt poetry of brick and the artistry of the men who work with it.  But this play is chiefly a study in integrity.  The home in question belongs to the bricklayer, and he is turning it into a sculpture to make a point". 

- Dan Sullivan

  Los Angeles Times

UCLA SCHOOL OF THEATER, FILM AND TELEVISION

Directed by Michael McLain