“But, you don’t have to take my word for it…”
— LeVar Burton, READING RAINBOW

Highlights Below

  • “Alderman and Mason have applied a delicate touch to their directing. They capture the play’s nuances and rhythm and manage to forge among their cast an authentic sense of family."

    — Review of LOST IN YONKERS
    Jeffrey Borak, The Berkshire Eagle

  • “The overall staging by Rachel Alderman, who also wrote the script, is fresh, fluid and emotionally potent...Broken Umbrella Theatre shows in this work that its artistry is as great as any major theater in Connecticut."

    — Review of FREEWHEELERS
    Frank Rizzo, Hartford Courant

  • “Metzler has packed a great deal into "Cry It Out." She's given us an array of characters — onstage and off — who are vividly drawn and richly human, especially in director Rachel Alderman's smooth, subtly crafted production."

    — Review of CRY IT OUT
    Jeffrey Borak, Berkshire Eagle

  • “...this is my second time seeing Michael Preston in the role [of Scrooge], and the third time with Rachel Alderman as director. And you know what? I think it’s the best version I’ve yet seen."

    — Review of A CHRISTMAS CAROL
    Donald Brown, New Haven Review

  • “She mines the characters for comedy but also for their depth, exploring a world in which no one is wrong and no one is evil, but all of them are victims of a very real internalized patriarchy that lasts well after the lights have gone down."

    — Review of CRY IT OUT
    Lucy Gellman, The Arts Paper

  • “in my favorite segment, the very charming children (Kaatje Welsh and Remsen Welsh) and their musical mentor (Josie Kulp) who, in “Branching Out” (written and directed by Rachel Alderman), inhabit the children’s wing as though it were truly a fabled place promised in fairy tales..."

    — Review of THE LIBRARY PROJECT
    Donald Brown, New Haven Review