December 2006

"Quality performances. It's another triumph for N.C. Stage and immediate theatre project."

- Tony Kiss, Asheville Citizen-Times


Preview/Feature published in Asheville Citizen-Times


"It's A Wonderful Life like you've never heard it before"
Preview/Feature published in Mountain XPress





June 2006

"Asheville's immediate theatre project has mounted this powerhouse piece with passion and intensity... The results are nothing short of amazing, with skilled performances and superb storytelling... Do see this show. Just don't expect easy, happy sleep when it's over."

- Tony Kiss, Asheville Citizen-Times


"The climactic moments between DeGraw and Novak are stunning! I honestly cannot remember the last time I have seen such real, raw emotions onstage. I almost choked up just because of the sheer honesty and reality of the scene, which does not often happen in theatre."

- Meg Hale, Asheville Daily Planet


"...Never lets its characters or the audience off the hook."

- Cecil Bothwell, Mountain Xpress





December 2004

"...90 minutes of intense reward...Director Jess Wells – along with producer Willie Repoley – rounded up the right folks and then molded them into one of the finest casts anyone could want. Yet another evidence that Asheville's theater world has come of age."

- Jim Cavener, Asheville Citizen-Times


"I commend Mr. Wells for his excellent choices in casting and for keeping the whole in balance. Together, they, not only entertain us, but give us an evening to think about."

- Genève Bacon, Mountain Area Information Network


"Staged with a cast of seasoned actors... this immediate theatre project production has the chops needed to pull off Albee's subtle brand humor. It's not funny because people are slipping on banana peels, but it does possess that sort of cruel wit – laughing at the expense of others."

- Alli Marshall, Mountain Xpress





June 2004

"Let me be very clear on this next point: You do not want to miss this show... The final image of Tom's exit is a haunting spectre of melancholy--and, alone, worth the price of admission."

- Jess Wells, Mountain Area Information Network


"...one of the most interesting approaches to the play I have seen. [Director Hans Meyer] has brought fresh eyes to a classic text and achieved a thoroughly original production that deeply touches the heart of the play."

- Jack Zerbe, Guilford College Department of Theatre Studies Chair


"Of the numerous productions of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie I've seen and reviewed, by both non-equity and professional companies and on both coasts, the recent one by immediate theatre project was the most emotionally moving and totally safisfying of all. I commend itp for giving us a Menagerie that Williams would have been proud of. They caught all the pathos and Southern Gothic family dysfunction for which this tortured writer is so well known."

- Jim Cavener, Asheville Theatre critic