Reviews

Re-Animator The Musical

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Variety (Bob Verini 3/09/2011)

For the month of March, Hollywood's happening place will the front rows of the Steve Allen Theater, where the cheeky, cheesy "Re-Animator: The Musical" elicits cheers with each spurt of blood and gore making its way over the footlights. Little protection is offered by management's complimentary trash-bag ponchos, but no one cares, and those out of harm's way may even get a little jealous. Not since "Little Shop of Horrors" has a screamfest tuner so deftly balanced seriousness and camp.

Curve wire (RS Bailey 3/16/2011)

Meg, beautifully portrayed by Rachel Avery, mistrusts Herbert entirely and is the sexy moral compass for the piece. The entire cast of "Re-animator" shines; from Rachel Avery's beautifully lilting voice, to George Wendt's show stopping solo as a zombie.

Anatol

At Pacific Resident Theatre

LA Times (David C. Nichols 3/26/2007)

An amorous foil around Matt Letscher's delightful rou – Avery makes a pert subject of hypnosis.

Review Plays.com   (Jose Ruiz 3/27/2007)

You have to see this. It’s a riot! Rachel Avery starts the beauty pageant, playing young Cora, a lovely innocent suspected of infidelity.  We never know if she did or didn’t, but after meeting Anatol, we can’t blame her if she did.

World Premiere

Open Secrets

At The Rubicon Theatre Company

VENTURA STAR (Rita Moran 6/20/2006)

“Avery's Donna is well defined as a girl adrift from what should be her moorings, left to fend for herself in the easiest and least rewarding ways”

West Coast Premiere of

When They Speak of Rita

At Pacific Resident Theatre

BACKSTAGE WEST (Madeleine Shaner 06/16/2005)

“The play is much deeper than the kitchen sink that is at its center, and it tears painfully at the heart; The cast is extraordinary.Avery makes our senses ache with admiration for her character's sweet contentment and amiability”

LA WEEKLY (Deborah Klugman 06/16/2005)

“Rachel Avery as Warren’s attractive girlfriend/then wife, renders a carefully crafted portrait of a desperately unhappy woman and her family. Foote gets high marks for dramatizing the inner lives of women”

LA TIMES (F.K.F 06/17/2005)

"Self-effacing and unpretentious, the actors give the kind of no-frills, straightforward performances that should be studied in master acting classes."