"Splendid ... Captures both the thrill of the spooky story and its moral ... with subtlety and finesse... Minigan manages to give this familiar tale a fresh eye."
--Terry Byrne, The Boston Globe
"One part fabulous fun and one part scary storytelling"
--Kevin T. Baldwin, METRMAG
"Good old-fashioned storytelling"
--Don Aucoin, The Boston Globe
"Perfect for our times"
--Joyce Kulhawik, JoycesChoices.com
"Amazingly edgy ... brilliantly adapted"
--BostonandBeyondEventDates.com
Pictured: Paul Melendy, winner of the 2023 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Solo Performance for the show!
--Terry Byrne, The Boston Globe
"One part fabulous fun and one part scary storytelling"
--Kevin T. Baldwin, METRMAG
"Good old-fashioned storytelling"
--Don Aucoin, The Boston Globe
"Perfect for our times"
--Joyce Kulhawik, JoycesChoices.com
"Amazingly edgy ... brilliantly adapted"
--BostonandBeyondEventDates.com
Pictured: Paul Melendy, winner of the 2023 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Solo Performance for the show!
Critics' Responses to Breaking the Shakespeare Code:
"...splendidly funny and smart"
Jed Ryan,
lavenderafterdark.com
"Breaking the Shakespeare Code is thrilling. It is also thrillingly well-crafted. John Minigan’s dialogue is fast paced, quippy, and profound."
Kenneth Laboy,
TheaterThatMatters.com
"Compelling... One of the finest plays you'll see at Fringe this season."
Pete Hempstead, theatermania.com
"Prepare to be blown away...John Minigan’s Breaking the Shakespeare Code is bold, brutal, brave, beguiling and brilliant."
David Roberts and Joseph Verlezza, NY Fringe Festival Review, theatrereviews.com
photo, Ben Asen
Jed Ryan,
lavenderafterdark.com
"Breaking the Shakespeare Code is thrilling. It is also thrillingly well-crafted. John Minigan’s dialogue is fast paced, quippy, and profound."
Kenneth Laboy,
TheaterThatMatters.com
"Compelling... One of the finest plays you'll see at Fringe this season."
Pete Hempstead, theatermania.com
"Prepare to be blown away...John Minigan’s Breaking the Shakespeare Code is bold, brutal, brave, beguiling and brilliant."
David Roberts and Joseph Verlezza, NY Fringe Festival Review, theatrereviews.com
photo, Ben Asen
"Engrossing and delicious fun."
Cindy Pierre, NY Fringe Festival Review, fringereview.co.uk
"I hope [this production] has a future beyond FringeNYC as smart plays are in short supply these days."
David Lally, nytheaternow.com
"[Minigan] creates a taut (and fraught) intellectual and sexual connection between the two characters... The script ... pierces like a javelin into essential, central truths... A literate, flinty, insightful script."
Kilian Melloy, EDGE
"Pick of the Fringe ... outstanding"
fringereviewus.wordpress.com
"A great new play... Top notch... The play unfolds in three sections that cover 16 years in this relationship, and it's a real roller-coaster."
Joyce Kulhawik, joyceschoices.com, Boston
photo, Alicia Washington
Cindy Pierre, NY Fringe Festival Review, fringereview.co.uk
"I hope [this production] has a future beyond FringeNYC as smart plays are in short supply these days."
David Lally, nytheaternow.com
"[Minigan] creates a taut (and fraught) intellectual and sexual connection between the two characters... The script ... pierces like a javelin into essential, central truths... A literate, flinty, insightful script."
Kilian Melloy, EDGE
"Pick of the Fringe ... outstanding"
fringereviewus.wordpress.com
"A great new play... Top notch... The play unfolds in three sections that cover 16 years in this relationship, and it's a real roller-coaster."
Joyce Kulhawik, joyceschoices.com, Boston
photo, Alicia Washington
Out of the Scorpion's Nest
formerly Queen of Sad Mischance
Winner of the Kennedy Center/ATHE's 2022
Judith Royer Award for Excellence in Playwriting
Winner of The Lab Theater's 2022 Louise Wigglesworth Excellence in Playwriting Award
Winner of the Landing Theatre's 2020 New American Voices Award
Winner of Portland Stage Company's 2019 Clauder Competition Gold Prize
What the critics have said about the Elliot Norton Outstanding New Script nominee
Noir Hamlet:
EDGEMedia Best of Boston Theater, 2018!
Boston Globe Critics' Pick
"Exquisite"
Terry Byrne, The Boston Globe
"Pitch-perfect comedy"
--BroadwayBaby.com
"Highly recommend[ed]…very, very clever… extremely funny… wicked fun”
--Jared Bowen, WGBH-Boston, Arts This Week
"A 90-minute side-splitter...It's been going on three years since the last Centastage production, but the wait has been worth it."
--Killian Melloy, EdgeMedia.com
"A wacky, whiskey soaked send-up...hilarious mayhem"
--Beverly Creasey, Boston Arts Review
"Very funny...Highly recommended"
The Boston Globe's Don Aucoin, on Twitter
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"... a tour-de-force"
John Farrell, presstelegram.com
"uproarious... what Minigan does best is [use] the comedy as a sleight of hand that distracts from a completely unexpected climax"
grumpygaycritic.co.uk
"... a mix of Sigmund Freud and Dashiell Hammett, and maybe even Walter Mitty"
Bondo Wyszpolski, easyreadernews.com
John Farrell, presstelegram.com
"uproarious... what Minigan does best is [use] the comedy as a sleight of hand that distracts from a completely unexpected climax"
grumpygaycritic.co.uk
"... a mix of Sigmund Freud and Dashiell Hammett, and maybe even Walter Mitty"
Bondo Wyszpolski, easyreadernews.com
