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Co-directors Peter Reynolds and Brandon McShaffrey provide masterful staging, clearly delineating the many quick-change locations with striking imagery. The ensemble actors make what they can of sometimes underwritten roles — as Rudi, John Jarboe does the most interesting, nuanced work.
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Temperamentals ultimately wins us over. In an era where the history of the gay-rights movement is so played down that even many smart college students have barely heard of Stonewall — believe me, I teach this stuff— this story demands to be seen. 
THE TEMPERAMENTALS
DAVID ANTHONY FOX  -  PHILADELPHIA CITY PAPER

"Peter Reynolds and Brandon McShaffrey co-direct with appealing formality and precision. Their stylish direction, enhanced by particularized lighting, suits the screenplay-feel. And well integrated incidental songs and fragments of music —a hallmark of a Marans play— contribute much to the mood. Generally it’s a low key performance and the small cast is solid. John Jarboe makes a fetching Rudi."
THE TEMPERAMENTALS
Kathryn Osenlund - curtainup.com

ELFUEGO... is  the perfect politically-conscious antidote for your winter doldrums, holiday shopping panic, and distaste for the bad attitude of omnipresent Grinches. It will make you laugh, while restoring your faith in the true, nondenominational spirit of Christmas—kindness, cooperation, consideration, and good will towards all.   
ELFEUGO
Debra Miller -  STAGE MAGAZINE
Simply put, if you don’t leave EL Fuego feeling unusually giddy, take it as a sign that you’re completely dead inside.
ELFEUGO
Nicole Finkbiner PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY STYLE 

Under Brandon McShaffrey’s direction, Ijames doesn’t so much impersonate Baldwin as inhabit him.  
THE THRESHING FLOOR
-J.  Cooper Robb,  Philadelphia Weekly 
Ijames, who's been popularly cast around town, is an actor with a lot of moves. He uses them nicely in The Threshing Floor. 
THE THRESHING FLOOR
 - Howard Shapiro, Philadelphia Inquirer 
Director Brandon McShaffrey moves The Threshing Floor briskly, using sound designer Matthew Lorenz's incisive jazz selections to propel the many shifts in time, space and character. We never forget that Ijames is an actor — he's presenting a story, not an impersonation — and marvel at this emotional and verbal dexterity. 
THE THRESHING FLOOR
- Mark Cofta,  Philadelphia Citypaper 
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