Review: THE SOUND INSIDE at Robert G. Reim Theatre
by James Lindhorst - Feb 13, 2024
Moonstone’s THE SOUND INSIDE is a well-constructed piece of theatre but has a story that simply did not resonate. Rapp’s story left me flat. Walking away from the theatre, and reflecting on the overall production, I wanted to like THE SOUND INSIDE more than I did. Â
Despite the criticism of the overall story, I still suggest seeing this production for a few reasons. First, Ryan Lawson-Maeske's performance. His enigmatic Christoper is gripping. Second, Mary Louise Parker won the Tony Award for her portrayal as Bella, so there is a strong likelihood that audiences may disagree with this assessment of the script. Finally, it is a polished production with strong collaboration between the director, his actors, and the technical crew. Â
Review: THE SOUND INSIDE at Coal Mine Theatre
by Ilana Lucas - May 25, 2023
Rapp’s play, about a Yale creative writing professor facing down a terrible illness, and her relationship with a challenging student of whom she asks an impossible favour, has lived in my mind since I saw it. It’s a familiar story that goes in new directions; it’s mesmerizingly told, and acted with chemistry and grace by its cast of two.
Review: THE SOUND INSIDE at Florida Theatrical Association
by Joseph Harrison - Apr 24, 2023
The latest offering by Florida Theatrical Association at the newly-opened Orlando Fringe Arts Space in downtown Orlando, is the Central Florida premiere of Adam Rapp’s, THE SOUND INSIDE. This Tony Award nominated play provides audiences with a complex and fascinating journey into an unlikely relationship between a tenured Yale creative writing professor and a brilliant but enigmatic student. A layered story – THE SOUND INSIDE feels at times to be a thriller, at others a love story, but throughout – a mystery.
Adam Rapp's THE SOUND INSIDE is Coming To Everyman
by Stephi Wild - Feb 17, 2023
Filled with intrigue, gorgeous writing, stunning imagery, and a healthy dose of mystery, THE SOUND INSIDE by Adam Rapp was nominated for six Tony Awards (including Best Play) and received seven Outer Critics Circle Awards. THE SOUND INSIDE will keep you leaning in, trying to guess how the story will end. Directed by Everyman Theatre's Founder and Artistic Director, Vincent M. Lancisi, THE SOUND INSIDE runs March 5 through April 2. Â
Diablo Ballet Presents THE NUTCRACKER SUITE Next Month
by Stephi Wild - Oct 10, 2022
Diablo Ballet's 29th Season opens this November with an expanded full-length production of Julia Adam's smash holiday hit, The Nutcracker Suite, performing November 11 – 12, 2022 at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek.
BWW Review: THE SOUND INSIDE at Marin Theatre Company
by Steve Murray - Jun 1, 2022
Two loners meet, bond, and become integrally entangled in Adam Rapp's beautiful tribute to authors and the spoken word in Marin Theatre Company's season closer The Sound Inside. This introspective two-hander, a West Coast premiere of Rapp's six-time 2020 Tony nominated drama, excels through director Jaason Minadakis' concentrated, minimal staging and stellar performances by Denmo Ibrahim as Professor Bella Lee Baird and Tyler Miclean as her student Christopher Dunn.
Diablo Ballet Presents COPPELIA in May
by Stephi Wild - Apr 28, 2022
Diablo Ballet will present the final program of its 21- 22 Season with, Coppélia, May 20 – 21 at the Lesher Center for the Arts. This full-length ballet, accompanied by the Diablo Symphony Orchestra under Music Director Matilda Hofman with feature newly created costumes by Amanda Farris and Christopher Dunn.
Marin Theatre Company to Present the West Coast Premiere of Adam Rapp's THE SOUND INSIDE
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jul 28, 2021
This fall, Marin Theatre Company will present the West Coast Premiere of Obie Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Adam Rapp’s riveting new American play, The Sound Inside. A brilliant Ivy League writing professor. A talented yet mysterious student. An unthinkable favor. Everyone has a story—the question is how it ends.
BWW Review: THE SOUND INSIDE Reverberates Online at TheaterWorks Hartford
by Derek McCracken - Apr 20, 2021
Ethical boundaries and emotional bonds fray in playwright Adam Rapp’s THE SOUND INSIDE, a cryptic and creative trope-defying drama exploring a symbiotic and suspenseful Ivy League professor-student friendship. The 90-minute filmed-to-stream production from Producing Artistic Director Rob Ruggiero and Hartford filmmaker Pedro Bermudez brings the audience to a tense audio-visual threshold where an academic power dynamic morphs into an unconventional space of negotiation, conflict and resolution.    Â