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Profiles & Interviews

• The Show That Made Gatsby Even Greater

  by Tim Teeman

  The Times of London May 10, 2012

• Hath Not A Year Highlights? Even This One?

  by Ben Brantley

  The New York Times December 16, 2010

• Putting 'The Great Gatsby' - Every Word Of It - Onstage

  by Rebecca Mead

  The New Yorker September 27, 2010

• On The Ground: New York

  by Debra Singer

  ArtForum: Best of 2007 December 2007

• Review: Gatz

  by John Beer

  The Point Magazine Spring 2009

• The Unadapted Theatrical Adaptation

  by Jason Zinoman

  The New York Times Magazine December 9, 2007

• A God, A Thermos, A Play (Part 2)

  by Julie Bleha

  TheatreForum Issue 23

• A God, A Thermos, A Play

  by Julie Bleha

  TheatreForum Issue 23

• This America: A Conversation With John Collins About Elevator Repair Service (Part 2)

  by Sara Jane Bailes

  Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory Issue 24

• This America: A Conversation With John Collins About Elevator Repair Service

  by Sara Jane Bailes

  Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory Issue 24

• The Happy Awkward Moment

  by Mark Russell

  The Village Voice May 28, 2002

• Elevator Repair Service

  by Coco Fusco

  Bomb Spring 1999

• The Downtown Express

  The Village Voice May 26, 1998

• Best Experimental Theater Troupe

  New York Magazine "Best of New York" issue May 4, 1998

• John Collins: Accidents Will Happen

  by Wendy Weiner

  American Theatre September 1997

• Going Up

  by Margot Ebling

  The Village Voice September 16, 1997

• Floor, Please

  by Alexandra Kuczynski

  Paper December 1994

Fondly, Collette Richland

• The Plot Thickens: Elevator Repair Service’s "Fondly, Collette Richland"

  by Julie Caniglia

  Walker Magazine April 30, 2013

• Sibyl Kempson: The Push and Pull of Playwrighting

  by Julie Caniglia

  Walker Magazine March 11, 2013

Arguendo

• The Supremes

  by Joshua J. Friedman

  The Paris Review May 31, 2012

Shuffle

• 3 Classic Novels. 22 Minutes. Why Not?

  by Charles McGrath

  The New York Times May 24, 2011

• Hemingway, Faulkner And Fitzgerald: The Remix

  by Samantha Henig

  The New Yorker May 25, 2011

The Select
(The Sun Also Rises)

• Review: The Select (The Sun Also Rises)

  by Laurence Mackin

  The Irish Times September 30, 2012

• Review: The Sun Also Rises

  by Jenna Scherer

  Timeout Boston March 17, 2011

• The Sun Also Rises, Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh

  by Lynne Walker

  The Independent August 20, 2010

• Theatre Review: The Sun Also Rises

  by Joyce McMillan

  The Scotsman August 26, 2010

• The Sun Also Rises

  by Michael Coveney

  What's On Stage August 16, 2010

• The Sun Also Rises

  by Lyn Gardner

  The Guardian August 15, 2010

• The Sun Also Rises (The Select)

  by Philip Fisher

  British Theatre Guide August 2010

• 'Elevator' Is Looking Up With Hemingway

  by Jay Handelman

  Sarasota Herald-Tribune October 8, 2009

The Sound and the Fury:
(April Seventh, 1928)

• The Sound And The Fury

  by Samela Harris

  The Advertiser March 12, 2010

• Tangled Narratives Of Tragedy And Hope

  by Murray Bramwell

  The Australian March 15, 2010

• The Sound And The Fury (April Seventh, 1928)

  by Joao Carneiro

  Expresso-Actual January 24, 2009

• Flowing With The Flux

  by Rita Martins

  Publico January 20, 2009

• Intruder In The Wings: A Staging Of William Faulkner's 'The Sound And The Fury'

  by Hilton Als

  The New Yorker May 26, 2008

• Critic's Notebook: Novel Approach

  by Hilton Als

  The New Yorker May 5, 2008

• Faulkner's Haunted Family, Moving In And Out Of Time

  by Ben Brantley

  The New York Times April 30, 2008

• Authorial Intense: Elevator Repair Service Puts Faulkner On Stage -- Verbatim.

  by Helen Shaw

  Time Out New York April 30-May 6, 2008

• The Sound And The Fury (April Seventh, 1928)

  by David Cote

  Time Out New York April 30, 2008

• Elevator Repair Service's 'The Sound And The Fury (April Seventh, 1928)'

  by Eric Grode

  The New York Sun April 30, 2008

• Elevator Repair Service Celebrates Stream-Of-Consciousness

  The International Herald Tribune April 29, 2008

• The Sound And The Fury (April Seventh, 1928): Elevator Repair Service At New York Theatre Workshop

  by Andy Propst

  Backstage April 29, 2008

• Review: 'The Sound And The Fury (April Seventh, 1928)'

  by Mark Blankenship

  Variety April 29, 2008

• They Did 'Gatsby." But Can The Handle Faulkner?

  by Justin Bergman

  The New York Times April 27, 2008

• Elevator Pushes Buttons With "Fury": N.Y. Company's Faulkner Adaptation Bows In April

  by Sam Theilman

  Variety November 30, 2007

• Nothing But Novel: Elevator Repair Service Does Faulkner

  by Claire Epstein

  The Brooklyn Rail April 2008

• Spring Theater Preview - The Sound And The Fury, An Idiot's Tale: ERS Follows Up Fitzgerald With Faulkner

  by Alexis Soloski

  The Village Voice March 4, 2008

• NY Theaters Set Stage For Novel Ideas

  by Mark Blankenship

  Variety November 30, 2007

No Great Society

• On The TV: Re-enacting Kerouac Interviews

  by Jason Zinoman

  The New York Times February 11, 2006

• No Great Society

  by David Cote

  Time Out New York February 9, 2006

• Elevator Repair Service Presents No Great Society

  Flavorpill NYC February 7-13, 2006

Gatz

• The Show That Made Gatsby Even Greater

  by Tim Teeman

  The Times of London May 10, 2012

• Hath Not A Year Highlights? Even This One?

  by Ben Brantley

  The New York Times December 16, 2010

• Putting 'The Great Gatsby' - Every Word Of It - Onstage

  by Rebecca Mead

  The New Yorker September 27, 2010

• A Spellbinding Six-Hour Gatz

  by Scott Brown

  New York Magazine October 6, 2010

• Borne Back Ceaselessly Into The Past

  by Ben Brantley

  The New York Times October 6, 2010

• A Novel 'Gatsby': Stamina Required

  by Ben Brantley

  The New York Times February 5, 2010

• 'The Great Gatsby' Meets 'The Office'

  by Don Aucoin

  The Boston Globe May 15, 2009

• Stage Provides Rich Pickings As Market Went Belly Up

  by Jason Blake

  The Sydney Morning Herald December 28, 2009

• Mesmerising Take On Gatsby

  by Jason Blake

  The Sydney Morning Herald May 19, 2009

• At Six-Plus Hours, Stage Take On 'Gatsby' A Great One Indeed

  by Chris Jones

  The Chicago Tribune November 17, 2008

• Fitz Of Passion

  by John Beer

  Time Out Chicago November 13-19, 2008

• Baring The Heart, Soul, Of 'Gatsby'

  by Hedy Weiss

  Chicago Sun-Times November 15, 2008

• 'Gatz' Is Great, But 'Metamorphosis' Has Altered Too Much

  by Fintan O'Toole

  The Irish Times October 4, 2008

• Observations: A Joyful Day In The Company Of The Great Gatsby

  by Larry Ryan

  The Independent October 3, 2008

• Review Of 'Gatz' At The Project

  by Peter Crawley

  Irish Times September 29, 2008

• On The Ground: New York

  by Debra Singer

  ArtForum: Best of 2007 December 1, 2007

• The Unadapted Theatrical Adaptation

  by Jason Zinoman

  The New York Times Magazine December 9, 2007

• This Week Ahead: September 16-22

  by Jason Zinoman

  The New York Times September 16, 2007

• Avant-Garde, PA

  by Alexis Soloski

  The Village Voice September 12-18, 2007

• Technical, Classical Brilliance Opens Festival

  by Jim McCaffrey

  The Bulletin September 4, 2007

• The Great Gatsby In The Theatre: A Brilliant Marathon

  by Rita Martins

  Publico July 4, 2007

• A Triumph Of Literature Over Time

  by Anne-Catherine Simon

  Die Presse June 17, 2007

• The Novel As Novel

  by Therese Bjørnboe

  Klassekampen December 12, 2006

• Gatz

  by Quinton Skinner

  Variety October 1, 2006

• A Slice Of Happiness In The Tristesse Of The Roaring Twenties

  by Alexandra Kedves

  Neue Zürcher Zeitung August 28, 2006

• Under The Spell Of A Novel

  by Stefan Busz

  Landboote August 28, 2006

• Textual Fidelity Reborn Through The Medium Of Soap Opera

  by Tobi Müller

  Tages-Anzeiger August 28, 2006

• Is This Town Big Enough For Two Gatsbys? Maybe Not

  by Jason Zinoman

  The New York Times July 16, 2006

• Seven Hours Of Tremendous Theater

  by Simon van den Berg

  Het Parool June 16,2006

• Gatz - Elevator Repair Service

  by Mieke Zijlmans

  8Weekly June 16, 2006

• Wonderfully Intoxicated By The Sober Language Of Fitzgerald

  by Hanny Alkema

  Trouw June 16, 2006

• Elevator Repair Service's Gatz

  Walker Art Center interview June 8, 2006

• She Only Loves Me

  by Kester Freriks

  NRC Handelsblad June 2, 2006

• Gatsby-Marathon: Reading It Out Loud

  by Karin Veraart

  De Volkskrant May 29, 2006

• A Very Digestible Brick

  Le Soir May 24, 2006

• Gatsby, Every Last Word Of It, On Stage

  by Alejandra O'Leary

  Yale Alumni Magazine November/December 2005

Room Tone

• A Novel Twist On 'The Turn Of The Screw'

  by Nelson Pressley

  The Washington Post April 12, 2004

• Room Tone

  by David Cote

  Time Out New York November 7, 2002

• The James Gang vs. Sophocles

  by Charles McNulty

  The Village Voice November 6, 2002

Highway to Tomorrow

• New York Magazine November 20, 2000

• Highway to Tomorrow

  The New Yorker November 20, 2000

• Highway to Tomorrow

  by Jason Zinoman

  Time Out New York November 9, 2000

Total Fictional Lie

• The Theater Of Danger

  by Douglas Davis

  Art in America February 1998

• Zombie Aerobics

  by Michael Feingold

  The Village Voice November 3, 1998

• Now The Uncool Are The Coolest Of All

  by Peter Marks

  The New York Times October 26, 1998

• Frenetic Applause For Paul's Wiggling Feet (English Translation)

  Die Welt September 10, 1998

• Frenetischer Applaus Für Pauls Zappelnde Füsse

  Die Welt September 10, 1998

• True Dada (English Translation)

  by Eva Behrendt

  Taz September 10, 1998

• Echt Dada

  von Eva Behrendt

  Taz September 10, 1998

Cab Legs

• Some Sort Of Awakening (Unabridged Version)

  by Mark Zimmerman

  Performing Arts Journal May 1998

• Some Sort Of Awakening (Abridged)

  by Mark Zimmerman

  Performing Arts Journal May 1998

• New York's ERS Shows That The Story Isn't What Counts (English Translation)

  by Marian Buijs

  de Volkskrant May 25, 1998

• New Yorkse ERS Toont Dat Het Verhaal Er Niet Toe Doet

  van Marian Buijs

  de Volkskrant May 25, 1998

• An Unstoppable Eros-Water Romance (English Translation)

  by Laurent Ancion

  Le Soir May 25, 1998

• Une Imparable Romance À L'eau D'eros

  de Laurent Ancion

  Le Soir May 25, 1998

• North America - Full Article

  by Tish Dice

  Performing Arts Journal November 1997

• North America

  by Tish Dice

  Performing Arts Journal November 1997

• The Hard-To-Achieve Ease (English Translation)

  by Mario Jandrokovic

  Salzburger Nachrichten August 13, 1997

• Das Schwer Machbare Leichtfüssige

  von Mario Jandrokovic

  Salzburger Nachrichten August 13, 1997

• Illustration

  The New Yorker September 15, 1997

Shut Up I Tell You
(I Said Shut Up I Tell You)

• Shut Up I Tell You
  (I Said Shut Up
  I Tell You)
  P.S. 122

  by Steven Drukman

  Artforum March 1996

Language Instruction:
Love Family vs. Andy Kaufman

• Kaufman's Bastard Child

  by Donna Coe

  The New York Post February 10, 1994

• Shtik It to the Guy

  by Michael Musto

  The New York Daily News January 31, 1993

Spine Check

• Dada's Home

  by Brian Parks

  The Village Voice July 6, 1993