3 2's; or AFAR "Playwright Mac Wellman is one of downtown's leading avant garde lights; he's a three-time Obie Award winner, with the last one for lifetime achievement. Not only have his plays been ground-breaking, but as Professor of Playwriting at Brooklyn College for many years, he has created a legacy of daring, young playwrights; like Thomas Bradshaw and Sibyl Kempson, to name just two out of dozens. This is a piece close in spirit to Japanese Noh theater, about a young puppeteer and a stranger. There will be performing objects; a boot and a shoe are main characters. The Dixon Place space has been transformed for this production, with former artistic director Leslie Strongwater producing. Meghan Finn directs, and two outstanding actors, Jan Leslie Harding and Jocelyn Kuritsky, are featured performers." -Tom Murrin, Papermag (Full Post) "Whatever fashioning the audience does follows the wrestling of the director Meghan Finn and her adroit cast." -The New York Times (Full Review) "This is an ensemble piece of the fullest variety, and it is clear that the actors, director and playwright have all formed a strong bond over the inner workings of this piece." -New York Theatre Review (Full Review) "...the performances are intense and committed." nytheatre.com (Full Review) "Mac Wellman’s latest experiment features a Brooklyn romance haunted by cackling, masked demons. Meghan Finn skillfully directs a game cast, and the production values are stunning." -TimeOut NY "The cast members all deliver wholly committed performances, and handle Wellman's stylized linguistic turns with aplomb." -TheaterMania "...a strong, young cast has found an exactness of emphasis and enunciation with his words." -Stage Voices (Full Review) Additional rave from Alexis Soloski at The Village Voice The Tenant "Jocelyn’s a core member of Woodshed Collective and ALSO plays a mean Crippled Girl. She’s odd and devastating. I found myself in a back courtyard watching her do the weirdest, saddest ‘exotic dance’ you ever did see, for coins, after she and her mother get kicked out of their tiny apartment. I sat there thinking – one day, in theory, these days – watching a crippled girl dance exotically on a weird back porch on 86th and Amsterdam – will be the Golden Years." -Bekah Brunstetter, Blog (Full Post) "Judith Greentree as a mad mother, along with Jocelyn Kuritsky as her disabled daughter...are consistently compelling." -David Cote, TimeOut NY (NY1) "Among the sights that will stick with me is a disturbing mother/daughter battle between Judith Greentree & Jocelyn Kuritsky." -The Broadway Blog (Full Review) "...The story involving an elderly lady (Judith Greentree) and her crippled daughter (Jocelyn Kuritsky), written by Sarah Burgess and played with deep emotion, seems as if it would be equally rewarding." -TheaterMania (Full Review) "Every last sordid emotion is realized with unnerving effectiveness by a uniformly skilled cast." -Lighting and Sound America (Full Review) "...It is the ease with which this talented bunch of actors perform their roles in non-traditional circumstances that makes them so enjoyable to watch." -nytheatre.com (Full Review) "Look for a masterful performance by Lynne Rosenberg as Nan in the role of the Concierge, as well as Judith Greentree (Maman) and her Crippled Daughter, Jocelyn Kuritsky, together with an otherwise extremely talented cast." -Examiner (Full Review) Next Gen Insider Interview March 2011 "By all means, immerse yourself in Jocelyn’s interview because she has one of the BEST (hands down) stories of the stage. This interview is one of our all time faves." (Full Interview) Michael & Edie  "Michael talks by phone-actually, by tin can, in one of several witty devices in this production-with his sister, Sarah (Jocelyn Kuritsky), who still lives with their parents and misses her older brother... The depth [created] in this relationship over a wire is the show's most compelling feature." -The New York Times (Full Review) "Some supporting actors give excellent performances. Jocelyn Kuritsky, who plays Michael's little sister, Sarah, a depressed, anxious teen, is nasal and angular, both comedic and tragic in her adolescent pain." -Off-Off Online (Full Review) "Robert Saenz de Viteri leads his cast of talented fresh faces on this journey for sensitive souls." -Backstage "Informing the real story of the play are Michael's depressive sister Sarah, played movingly by Jocelyn Kuritsky, and an enigmatic fellow named Ben, played by Jacob Wilhelmi." -nytheatre.com (Full Review) Father of Lies "Cooler is Gary Winter's startling (and starling!) play at The Chocolate Factory, and is not to be missed. All the ills of our world (and others just like it) are folded up, then unfolded in a three-dimensional chess match of hard, gemlike theater, a postmodernist shtetl play and one in which the awful improbable facts of our world are revealed for just what they are: Awful and improbable and true. The production is terrific in all respects." -Mac Wellman "The superb Jocelyn Kuritsky thoroughly convinces as the trusting wife, gradually realizing that the accusations of child abuse brought against her husband may not be lies." -Theater Review (NYC) (Full Review) "...the excellent Jocelyn Kuritsky..." -That Sounds Kul "Each performance is layered and a pleasure to watch." Cooler "Through a team of incredibly talented and versatile actors, the tale is turned into one of good and evil, one's blind belief in faith, and how dangerous faith can be. ...A stellar cast and dynamic production." -BroadwayWorld (Full Review) "You're left enriched by the spectacle of talented artists untangling the mysteries of life, love, and destiny." -BlackBook Magazine (Full Review) The Luck of the Ibis "Jocelyn Kuritsky and Jessica Pohly as the two heroines of the story give incredibly intense performances." -Michael Roderick, One Producer in the City (Full Review) "Every single member of this talented ensemble is captivating in a different way and will hold you in the palm of their hand as they spin their part of the tale, campaigning for their version of the truth." -Karen Tortora, The Happiest Medium (Full Review) Additional rave from Aaron Riccio at That Sounds Kul She of the Voice "The ensemble of a dozen or so actors is really great. The cast pours a ton of energy into a show that never fails to entertain and charm." -nytheatre.com Crawl, Fade to White "The ensemble is strong, especially the women, each of whom seems haunted in an entirely different way. Jocelyn Kuritsky, as April, is a bundle of nervous energy with nowhere to put it; she seems easily pushed around but she also has a wiry, wily core." -nytheatre.com "Director Paul Willis gets superlative performances from his cast." -TheaterMania "…The meticulous cast works to underscore the emotion beneath the Sarah Ruhl–like affectations:Louise’s sacrifices are real and so is April’s [JK] suffering." -TimeOut NY, **** "The actors bravely eschew rounded psychologies, letting a mysterious inner logic ground their characters in external will and drive-Jocelyn Kuritsky's April shakes like an overheated bomb." -New Theater Corps New York Magazine Approval Matrix! "The impossible-to-stage-yet-they-pulled-it-off ending to Crawl, Fade to White." 12 Ophelias "Jocelyn Kuritsky's Mina, a prostitute with the proverbial heart of gold, totally won over my own tarnished heart." -Obscene Jester "Mina—a floozy in Daisy Duke short-shorts worn by Jocelyn Kuritsky—parad[es] her libido around like the barn’s cockiest hen." -New York Press "...the team of young actors are promising..." Seating Arrangements "Jocelyn Kuritsky's confession, which begins, 'I used to, um, fart...a lot when I encountered a man I liked,' is hysterical." -The Village Voice "The thoughts are not unified, nor even complete, but the actors are, and I'll take the honesty of their clamor over the dissembling glaze of some flimsily commercial play any day." Have You Seen Steve Steven? "Go see it. Creepy, fascinating, scary... The language rides a line between Ionesco's idiotic iterations of bourgeois chatter and Edward Albee's coded, menacing manner." -David Cote, Histriomastix "...a wickedly funny and stunned Jocelyn Kuritsky..." -New Theater Corps "...Jocelyn Kuritsky is alarmingly funny..." -That Sounds Kul "The cast is top-notch from top to bottom, particularly Alissa Ford and Tom Riis Farrell as the oblivious Clarkson parents and Jocelyn Kuritsky as the damaged, near-feral Anlor." -nytheatre.com "The cast is nothing short of superb." -The L Magazine "Jocelyn Kuritsky does a lot with the underwritten part of Anlor, who has an unnerving way of waking up screaming from her drunken stupors." -Lighting and Sound America "...a witty, internalized performance by Jocelyn Kuritsky..." -NYC OnStage "The non-English speaking foreign exchange student is an old trope by now, but as played by ghoulish and stick figured Jocelyn Kuritsky, this character’s foreigness becomes as frightening as it is hilarious." -The Playgoer "The acting in Have You Seen Steve Steven? is outstanding." -Stage Buzz Reviews (Full Review) "Director Anne Kauffman does a predictably diamond-bright job, made easy by a mouth-watering cast." -TimeOut NY, **** (Full Review) Smoke and Mirrors "The seven actors turn in terrific comedic performances." -Backstage (Full Review) "Since this is the venerable Flea and the actors are the Bats (the resident company of young up-and-coming actors) the acting is the best part of the show. Bats Jason Dirden, Ben Horner, Parrish Hurley, Susan Hyon, Jocelyn Kuritsky, Aurelia Lavizzo, and Stas May display a great sense of ensemble acting and comedic timing." -A Curtain Up Review (Full Review) "Everyone does great work here, with especially strong performances from Susan Hyon as Anita, Jason Dirden as Terry and Jocelyn Kuritsky as Estelle." -nytheatre.comAdditional raves from New Theater Corps, The New Yorker, and TimeOut NY |
