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BECOMING EVE NOMINATED FOR DRAMA DESK AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING ADAPTATION, OUTSTANDING PUPPETRY, AND DIRECTON OF A PLAY
BECOMING EVE NOMINATED FOR OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS FOR THE JOHN GASSNER AWARD FOR NEW AMERICAN PLAY AND OUTSTANDING FEATURED PERFORMER
BECOMING EVE NOMINATED FOR DRAMA LEAGUE AWARDS FOR OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A PLAY, OUTSTANDING DIRECTION, AND DISTINGUISHED PERFORMANCE
Becoming Eve - TheaterMania
"Becoming Eve seldom flinches in keeping its subject narrow, its storytelling focused, especially as staged—tautly and gracefully—by Tyne Rafaeli..."
"But the play offers, in its astonishing specificity, a theatrical roadmap for affecting and effective art that doesn’t try to be all things to all people but pinpoints precise slivers of humanity to portray."
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Becoming Eve - The Wrap
"We are living in a golden age of American dramatic literature, and Weinstein’s play can take its place at the top of this theater trend..."
"Rafaeli’s direction works stage magic here..."
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Becoming Eve - The Queer review
"Becoming Eve is a rich, contemplative and poignant work that treats its audience with intelligence, while remaining invitingly accessible. A satisfying play that will likely stay with its audience."
"Fascinating and persuasive, Becoming Eve has been adroitly adapted for the stage by playwright Emil Weinstein... with bold direction by Tyne Rafaeli."
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Becoming Eve - New York Theatre Guide
"[D]iscussing crucial sections of the Torah, commentaries on the scriptures, and the transformation of the soul; and memories of Chava’s closeted life as a child, adolescent, and young newlywed in eternal conflict with their inner self."
"As the characters remind us, this bothness is intrinsic to the mysteries of life. If the show, at its best, is about someone in the present trying to make sense of their past..."
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Weather Girl - London Theatre
"It’s the paradoxical achievement of this hourlong show that it feels ceaselessly alive. Funny to start with and by the end sorrowful beyond words..."
"Tyne Rafaeli’s production suggests that theatrical intimacy can achieve a sizable impact…"
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Weather Girl - New Scientist
"New Scientist recommends Weather Girl, an electrifying one-woman show."
"Weather Girl is an attack on wilful ignorance – of climate change, naturally, but also of the plight of women like Stacey..."
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Weather Girl - The Standard
"[N]avigates the twists from horror to humour deftly and brings subtle modulation to a character permanently on the brink of screaming collapse."
"[V]ery, very funny, tightly directed by Tyne Rafaeli, and performed with great skill by McDermott."
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Weather Girl - Camden New Journal
"As Californian wildfires rage, bittersweet solo play goes from laugh-out-loud funny to leaving the audience in stunned silence."
"Slickly directed by Tyne Rafaeli, Weather Girl is timely..."
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The Thing About Jellyfish - East Bay Times
"Lawler’s Suzy is a poignant mass of fierce intellect and crushing vulnerability, of resolute determination and emotional chaos... her journey into the landscape of grief is the play’s greatest asset…"
"A gleaming, high-tech theatrical experience full of gorgeous, crystalline projections, and set pieces in constant motion across the stage…"
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The Thing About Jellyfish - San Francisco Chronicle
"Transportive…breathtaking fluidity…heart- and consciousness-expanding work... It’s the kind of storytelling that makes you ask yourself why we can’t be more like that in real life — why we can’t give more of ourselves to one another’s cares and curiosities.
"[T]he grace of Keith Bunin’s playwriting and the heart-wrenching beauty of Tyne Rafaeli’s direction..."
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The Thing About Jellyfish - Theatre Eddys
"Visually stunning, surprisingly funny, and achingly heartfelt…touches to the core and inspires all who have witnessed the journey…"
"Tyne Rafaeli’s direction is near flawless in terms of flow and pace as well as the intersections of real-time events with those playing out in Suzy’s mind and memory..."
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Weather Girl - The Times
"This sharp, smart, one-woman show is from the producing team behind Fleabag and Baby Reindeer, and it looks set to follow the same gilded path as those stage-to-screen phenomena’
"Look out for the inevitable Netflix adaptation"
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Weather Girl - The Telegraph
"The laughs keep coming... this is a piece that pushes way past the familiar comfort-zone of a modern-day confessional and turns into a topical vision of humanity wilting amid encroaching climate change."
"Tyne Rafaeli’s direction is sharp..."
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Weather Girl - Time Out
"Unsettling rather than preachy, ‘Weather Girl’ is a thrillingly crafted eco drama with magical realist undertones that deftly moves between darkly comic and nightmarishly earnest."
"Tyne Rafaeli’s slickly-directed production... evocatively shifting the vibe from TV studio to nightclub to burning hellscape."
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Weather Girl - The Scotsman
"In Tyne Rafaeli’s breathtakingly intense but beautifully-paced production... a television weather girl in central California finds herself reporting on ever-intensifying wildfires in [her] home state."
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Weather Girl - What's On Stage
"Tyne Rafaeli’s direction jerks violently from the phantasmagorical to the horrifyingly vivid."
"While nudging at a possible redemption for humanity, it is swaddled in the perturbing projections of outright calamity – all laced with laugh-out-loud verve. Forecasting the apocalypse has never been this entertaining."
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Weather Girl - The Skinny
"It’s slick and engaging, a (literal) car crash you can’t stop watching."
"Weather Girl deserves a larger stage."
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FROM PRODUCERS OF FLEABAG AND BABY REINDEER, WEATHER GIRL GETS ITS WORLD PREMIERE AT THE EDINBURGH FRINGE
Brian Watkins creator of the hit Amazon TV series 'Outer Range' brings the World Premiere of his play 'Weather Girl', directed by Tyne Rafaeli, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
The award-winning producers of 'Fleabag', 'Baby Reindeer', and 'Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder' today announces the world premiere of a blistering dark comedy about wrecking the places we love.
Francesca Moody Productions present 'Weather Girl' at Cairns Lecture Theatre, Summerhall.
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BROADWAY-AIMED 'THE THING ABOUT JELLYFISH' WILL DEBUT AT BERKELEY REP
Berkeley Repertory Theatre has announced the world premiere of “The Thing About Jellyfish,” based on Ali Benjamin’s 2015 novel. Tyne Rafaeli will direct the Broadway-aimed piece, which is being adapted for the stage by Keith Bunin. “The Thing About Jellyfish” is being produced in association with Madison Wells Live.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES PROFILE: THESE FOUR STAGE DIRECTORS KNOW JUST WHAT NEEDS TO CHANGE
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SPAIN - The New Yorker
Review: A Shady Documentary Becomes a Weapon of War in ‘Spain’
"Dramatizing that airy premise by marrying it to a familiar entertainment template... unable to escape that dark gravity of Tyne Rafaeli’s staging."
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WORLD PREMIRE OF SPAIN BY JEN SILVERMEN COMING TO 2ND STAGE THEATER
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The Coast Starlight - New York Times Critic's Pick
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‘THE COAST STRLIGHT' REVIEW: STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
"Sends up sparks of sharp humor... let it do what any train journey should do - move you"
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The Coast Starlight - The Wrap
‘The Coast Starlight’ Off Broadway Review: We’re Not Traveling in the Quiet Car
"Tyne Rafaeli’s direction is also a kinetic marvel. She moves her actors around the stage as if it were a giant chessboard and someone has hit the fast-forward button."
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The Coast Starlight - New York Stage Review
'THE COAST STARLIGHT': STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
"Director Tyne Rafaeli’s simple yet elegant staging beautifully serves the play’s imaginary construct. The six-person ensemble go through their emotional and physical paces... beautifully, delivering nuanced performances that make us truly involved in their characters’ fates."
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Epiphany - New York Times Critic's Pick
‘EPIPHANY' REVIEW: A HOLIDAY PARTY, BUT WHAT ARE WE CELEBRATING?
"I could even call it a kind of poem, making music out of abstractions while traversing the past and the present, the real and the surreal. That this heady work, in a Lincoln Center Theater production directed by Tyne Rafaeli, evades any one definition is a testament to its grand ambitions.
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Epiphany - FORBESWOMEN
SHE FOUND HER OWN EPIPHANY DIRECTING THE NEW PLAY 'EPIPHANY'
"When Tyne Rafaeli first read Brian Watkins’ new play Epiphany she began to howl with laughter. “It stopped me dead in my tracks,” says the director of the play that centers around a group of friends who come together to celebrate a forgotten holiday called Epiphany. “I resonated deeply with how Brian walks the fine line between the profound and the profane.”'
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Epiphany - The New Yorker
HARMONIC LIGHTSCAPES IN TWO FURTIVELY SPIRITUAL PLAYS
"Rafaeli manages the big ensemble cast with wit and fluidity. "
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Epiphany - The Wrap
‘EPIPHANY' OFF BROADWAY REVIEW: JAMES JOYCE GETS A RADICAL AND HILARIOUS UPDATE
"Tyne Rafaeli directs, and her mastery of handling both the broad comedy and the profound tragedy is remarkable."
"... uses that kind of physical comedy to lead to a place of mourning and loss and obliteration that Joyce himself would recognize."
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SEELING KABUL BECOMES A FINIALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN DRAMA
NOMINATED FOR DRAMA LEAGUE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING DIRECTON OF A PLAY FOR SELLING KABUL
Selling Kabul - New York Times Critic's Pick
‘SELLING KABUL' REVIEW: TRAPPED IN A WAR, AND AN APARTMENT
"As directed by Tyne Rafaeli, “Selling Kabul” has elements of a Greek tragedy and an espionage thriller. As a suspense story that unrolls in real time... Every detail of the wordless opening moments... will reverberate later on. "
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Selling Kabul - Vulture
‘SELLING KABUL' is a Claustrophobic, Effective Thriller
"...Tyne Rafaeli has choreographed her actors precisely. Taroon himself is chafing at the bounds of his confinement, so the siblings are deliberately out of sync with each other, hampered by the many things they cannot say."
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Selling Kabul - TimeOut
"Too little attention is paid to locals caught in the crossfire of American military actions abroad, and Selling Kabul puts a valuable spotlight on their plight as it investigates questions of loyalty and responsibility... and Tyne Rafaeli’s production evokes a proper sense of the danger that might descend on them at any moment. "
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Usual Girls -New York Times Critic's Pick
REVIEW: BRUTAL INTIMACY AND EXUBERANCE DEFINES 'USUAL GIRLS'
"Impeccably directed by Tyne Rafaeli... With hilarity and grimness, it connects the dots between pleasure, pain and shame."
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Usual Girls - Vulture
"It’s one thing to be able to articulate your artistic goals and another to pretty much nail them. But that’s what Peiffer, along with director Tyne Rafaeli, has done with Usual Girls, a visceral growing-up play that moves from rambunctious to somber without apologizing for either extreme, its nuttiness or its anger. "
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Usual Girls - New York Stage Review
REVIEW: USUAL GIRLS: ACHING JUST LIKE A WOMAN, AND BREAKING TOO
"richly entertaining and deeply unsettling...with driving pace and lean muscularity... Usual Girls will stay with you long after the curtain call."
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I Was Most Alive with You - New York Times Critic's Pick
REVIEW: SPEAKING (AND SIGNING) OF JOB, IN 'I WAS MOST ALIVE WITH YOU'
"Rafaeli's staging is a marvel of polyphony"
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In a Word - New York Times Critic's Pick
IN A WORD GRAPPLES WITH LOSS AND LANGUAGE
"...the director Tyne Rafaeli tilts the play toward surrealism, keeping horror at bay with quick-fire dialogue... the play ultimately suggests that even if loss on this level can’t really be understood, it can be survived..."
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Ironbound - LA Times
"Ironbound" forces us to recognize the bitter reality of a system that renders invisible those hard-working casualties of the American dream..."
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The Rape of the Sabine Women By Grace Matthias - Time Out (4 Stars)
"...Crowley and Rafaeli’s tricky tonal balancing act requires high-wire nerve, but they manage it"
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The Rape of the Sabine Women By Grace Matthias - Financial Times (4 Stars)
"...by avoiding all trace of melodrama and sentimentality, Sabine Women confronts us with the bleak vision that rape is a basic fact of life.
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The Rape of the Sabine Women By Grace Matthias - The New Yorker
"...works well, both as a comedy and, ultimately, as a full-throated protest against rape culture through the ages..."
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The Rape of the Sabine Women By Grace Matthias - The Village Voice
MICHAEL YATES CROWLEY'S "SABINE WOMEN" CONFRONTS RAPE CULTURE WITH DARING HUMOUR
"...a clever indictment of the blinding misogyny that underlies how our society insists on discussing rape, and the damage we all suffer as a result...."
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Actually by Anna Ziegler- LA Times
SEX , CONSENT, GENDER, RACE: A POTENT COCKTAIL IN ACTUALLY
"...the minute-to-minute game-play in this production, tautly directed by Tyne Rafaeli, is gripping..."
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Actually by Anna Ziegler- TheatreMania
"Under Rafaeli's direction, Actually makes its issues complicated, and never passes judgment. ... too smart for clichés. It is not to be missed..."
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