Author of So We Read On and book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, Maureen Corrigan
“It was haunting and so smart. Your actors are extraordinary. I think Eddie’s Gatsby, especially, is going to stay with me for a long, long time.”
Kemper Corner, Ben Kemper
“Director Michael Cotey certainly knows his Fitzgerald. His production of The Great Gatsby carries both the airy sumptuousness and grimy suppleness of Jazz age New York and can distill the hopeless quest of Jay Gatsby as narrated by his hapless chronicler Nick Carraway to the stage with panache. Scenic Designer Lauren Nichols shrinks or expands the stage with a divine disdain for physics, while lighting designer Alex Ridgers not only brings brilliance but sneaks that pesky green light into surprising places.
But it is the human element of this Gatsby that creates the most surprises. Cotey drums up his ensemble to create hydroplanes and swimming-pools and the fabled car made up of a quintet of marigold-clad flappers.”
Listen to original music from GATSBY below, written and recorded by Kevin O’Donnell