On A Laura Ingalls Wilder Christmas
"Loss permeates the festivities in A Laura Ingalls Wilder Christmas,
which makes this Dallas Children's Theater production particularly apt
for the shell-shocked sensibilities of Americans wading through the
devastation of war, hurricanes and economic hardship.
Playwright Laurie Brooks, who has already impressed with her plays for
young-adult audiences, aims at the younger crowd here, but with an
emotional depth and complexity that adults should find moving, too." read more
~
The Dallas Morning News by Nancy Churnin
On The Wrestling Season:
“Laurie Brooks’ The Wrestling Season [is] so energetically stylized that it defuses any hint of peachiness or soap opera.”
~ Time Magazine (11/15/04) read more...
“The Wrestling Season asks only that that teenagers be allowed to feel their own way to an honest understanding of their own personal identities, and recognizes the emotional challenge as a great feat of sportsmanship itself. “
~ Seatlle Weekly (1/10/02)
“For one of the few times in theatre, audience members can truly feel as if they are voyeurs in the world before them.”
~ PitchWeekly (2/10/00)
Good theater ought to entertain, but sometimes it can teach a lesson or two at the same time. With The Wrestling Season, Mockingbird Theatre provides us an opportunity to get the best of both worlds.
~ Nashville Scene (4/28/04)
On Franklin’s Apprentice:
“This is a top-draw piece of children’s theater. It held the school audience of which I was a part completely rapt, cheering every scene and wanting more. As the students left, you could practically hear the Benjamin Franklin Web sites starting to crash.”
~ The Tennessean (2/1/02)
On Deadly Weapons:
Deadly weapons is …a protean mix of character study, information resource and audience interaction. And it manages to be surprisingly moving in the process.
~ The Dallas Morning News (3/2/02)
On The Tangled Web:
“The Tangled Web refuses to pander to its audience and acknowledges that “happy endings” are the stuff of storybooks, not necessarily real life…This play had struck a chord, what better argument for the relevance of theatre.”
~ Kansas City.com (3/19/03)
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