Romeo & Juliet Reviews/blogs!

    "This evening we had the joy of seeing the fantastic inaugural production of Theater 2020: Visions for a New Millennium, an innovative, swiftly-paced performance of Romeo and Juliet, from the steps of the Granite Prospect of Brooklyn Bridge Park's Pier 1 . . . with New York Harbor, the skyline of Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty serving as backdrop."

    "It was a memorable show with first-rate acting and wonderful use of puppetry, a thrilling debut for the Brooklyn Heights professional theater company and its producing artistic directors, the married team of Judith Jarosz (choreographer here) and David Fuller (director/fight director for this production)."
    - Who Will Kiss The Pig Blogspot

    "Theatergoers who want to see a Shakespeare play this summer without burning a hole in their wallet might try Theater 2020's Romeo and Juliet. The production is highly original in its cross-cultural setting and retooling of its protagonists as a Muslim and a Hindu."

    "Fuller takes a commanding hold of the play."

    'This compact production has real power and verve."

    "The fighting scenes (fight direction also by David Fuller) are executed both in the altar area and in the center aisle, a hair's breadth from the audience. The Act 5 sword duel between Romeo and Paris in particular, is quite breath-taking."

    "This is the inaugural production of Theater 2020, which touts itself as the first professional theater company in Brooklyn Heights. And based on their first theatrical effort, the company is worth watching."
    - Deirdre Donovan, CurtainUp.com

    "Clearly the RSC shows are the snob event of the season. But for those who love the Bard and don't want to burn a hole in their wallets, Deirdre Donovan, our intrepid explorer of all things Shakespeare recommends a subway ride to Brooklyn heights to take in Theater 2020's FREE Romeo and Juliet."
    - Elyse Sommer, CurtainUp blog annex

    Theater 2020, a new Brooklyn Heights-based company, puts a new twist on Shakespeare's enduring love story with a Hindu Romeo and Muslim Juliet in its production of Romeo and Juliet.
    - Meredith DeLiso, The Brooklyn Paper

    "The inaugural production of this Brooklyn company is an updated Romeo and Juliet with a Hindu Romeo falling for a Muslim Juliet. Free performances in Brooklyn Bridge Park in Dumbo are part of the Bard on Pier 1 program. 'Good theater benefits all theater,' said Judith Jarosz, a producing artistic director (with David Fuller) of Theater 2020."
    - Steven McElroy, The New York Times
    Judith, quoted in NYTimes "Good theater benefits all theater," said Judith Jarosz, a producing artistic director (with David Fuller) of Theater 2020. "If somebody on the Upper East Side goes to the Armory and has a positive experience, it's all the more possible they'll go to the park and see something else."


"Heights' Theater 2020 Gets Boost From Times!


Judith Jarosz and David Fuller are
interviewed by Martin Denton

Listen to the Podcast: www.nytheatrecast.com/pcast/nythpod368.mp3

Here's the link to the Podcast Guide: : www.nytheatre.com/podcast.aspx?p=368
"It's spring and a new theatre company is being launched and, of course, nytheatrecast wants to learn more. Listen and find out all about Theater 2020, a very new company made up and founded by theatre professionals you have known for years... Although this is a new company, many of the people they have worked with in the past are part of Theater 2020. Judith tells us about their resident playwright, Lynn Marie Macy, and David speaks of members of their advisory council who have been working with them for many years... You'll learn why they are calling Brooklyn Heights their home base, about their various programs, what will be their first production and more..." (Published on Mar 20, 2011)
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Brooklyn Heights People: Theater 2020's Judith Jarosz and David Fuller

by Julie Kanfer 22. Mar, 2011
If Judith Jarosz's infectious energy and David Fuller's quiet confidence are any indication of what Theatre 2020: Visions for a New Millennium will be like, then expect their new theater endeavor to be serious, and seriously entertaining.

"We look at everything like an opportunity," Jarosz, whose personality is as fiery as her mane of red hair, said recently over a cup of coffee at Heights Cafe. "That's the kind of people we are."

They are also - very much - theater people, having worked in the industry, in one way or another, for all of their adult lives. Most recently, Jarosz and Fuller were at Theater 1010 on Manhattan's fancy, far-away Upper East Side. Housed in the Park Avenue Christian Church since 1955, Theater 1010, which was the longest continuously operating Equity theater company in New York City, began to buckle under the weight of the recession.

"The church was rethinking all of its programs, and everything in its building, and how to address the financial situation," Jarosz, who was 1010's producing artistic director for more than a decade, said. "Ultimately, they disbanded the theater. It had just turned 55 years old. The ongoing legacy is gone."

Rather than dwell on the loss, Jarosz and Fuller, who was 1010's executive director and, before that, ran the Jean Cocteau Repertory for six years, immediately founded Theater 2020, which will make its home where they make theirs: Brooklyn Heights.
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