Awards & Praise

“…hilarious and brilliant…Chekhov Lizardbrain is an astounding piece of theatre.”

Broadwayworld.com on Chekhov Lizardbrain

One of the top 10 theatre events in New York in 2008. "this spellbinding curiosity from the Pig Iron Theater Company of Philadelphia was the...

New York Times on Chekhov Lizardbrain

“The performance juggles ideas about Chekhov, about playmaking, about what the theater's for, mixing them with bigger matters: love, honesty, friendship, and justice; our relation...

Village Voice on Chekhov Lizardbrain

“It's everything that great avant-garde theater should be … I don't say this often, but you really must see it right away.”

CurtainUp on Chekhov Lizardbrain

“A delicious deceit, a musical treatise of disappointments, a self-described cabaret of “rites and wrongs.” And every gloomy thing it purports to be, it isn't”...

Philadelphia Inquirer

“Imaginatively performed, realistically designed and superbly directed… the intensely physical and theatrically unique piece is a welcome departure from the predictable and listless Shakespeare productions...

Philadelphia Weekly on Isabella

“But, once again, Pig Iron's theatrical inventions are not only experimental - and in this case risky in the extreme - but vital theater… It's...

Broad Street Review on Isabella

“Amazing and thoughtful… An incredibly disturbing, incredibly good show. The acting [is] just phenomenal.”

Phillyist.com on Isabella