“This Emerald City was a place of conceptual ingenuity, and it made me feel greedy for more.”
-The New York Times
"One of the coolest films of the summer… ★★★★”
-Daily Mirror
“Ioana Alfonso as Slim… a joy to watch."
-Trib LIVE
“Bare: The Musical is an edgy, thought-provoking musical that explores some very deep issues.”
-Curtain Up
“Kenny Leon, the director, and his team, have come up with a fast-moving, projection-intensive minimalist staging that is slick and simple.”
-The Wall Street Journal
The choreography rises to the occasion and creates the kind of dynamic, sharply focused group movement that is too often missing elsewhere.
- Wall Street Journal
“Twyla Tharp’s world-class troupe of 14 dancers tells these stories one after the other. They are required to not only be well-trained, graceful and masterful in their art, but also built to endure the raw physicality of Tharp’s seemingly unbridled but highly disciplined choreography. They also need to be beautiful enough to turn the romance and steamy sexuality in the music and lyrics into something palatable. They are and they do.”
-The News-Herald
"Though the men are the alpha characters in Sinatra Land, the women have their ways, too. There's the cool blonde who holds her pursuers at arm's length (Meredith Miles, and what arms — and legs), the gal who can give as well as she gets (Ashley Blair Fitzgerald, fearless) or the unpredictable and tempestuous sizzler (Ioana Alfonso)."
-Hartford Courant
"Director-producer Tom Ferriter gets some good work out of his cast, especially Salgado... and Alfonso."
-Variety
"The early scenes between the Mexicans, for example, are thoroughly charming, aided greatly by warm and winning performances from Ioana Alfonso as Irma and Mauricio Tafur Salgado as Carlos."
-New York Times
"To her credit, Alfonso makes Irma's dichotomies not only credible, but also exceptionally appealing."
-American Theatre Web