New Paradise Laboratories' Freedom Club in New York Magazine and The Village Voice

20 Jan 2011

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New Paradise Laboratories' Freedom Club. Pictured: Mary McCool, Stephanie Viola, and McKenna Kerrigan. Photo by Nicole Adler.

New Paradise Laboratories' Center-funded production of Freedom Club was reviewed in New York Magazine and The Village Voice after traveling to New York City.

Scott Brown of New York Magazine said that Freedom Club "channels our abundant ambient insanity with profane elan and gut-shot black comedy." Read more >

In the Village Voice, Alexis Soloski said that "the play—via Whit MacLaughlin's fluent direction and Shaplin's lush language—makes many trenchant observations about politics, power, and resistance." Read more >

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