REVIEWS

Fewer Trees in a Fairy-Tale Forest (The New York Times)

“Fiasco Theater’s truly enchanting production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s “Into the Woods,” which opened on Thursday night at the Laura Pels Theater, makes the best case ever for a musical that interpreters have been trying to get right since the show was first staged in the mid-1980s.” READ MORE

Into The Woods (Entertainment Weekly)

“It’s a rare thing, the production that manages to give you pause about a familiar musical based on even more familiar stories, and yet, with just 10 actors and a handful of musical instruments (and instruments not quite musical yet musically instrumental), the plucky Fiasco Theatre in conjunction with the Roundabout Theatre Company has restored Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s 27-year-old musical into a wildly inventive, emotionally gut-punching, delightfully off-kilter production.” READ MORE

'Joyously ingenious and teasingly incongruous' (The Independent)

“If you go down to the woods today, you're in for a rather delightful surprise. Fiasco, a US-based ensemble theatre company, specialise in playfully pared-down productions that put the emphasis firmly on performance, text and story... Now the Menier Chocolate Factory has imported from Off-Broadway their charming stripped-back version of the 1987 Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine musical about the revealing tropes and psychological truths in fairy tales.” READ MORE

PRESS

WNYC: Noah Brody, Ben Steinfeld, and Emily Young discuss Fiasco’s revival of “Into the Woods”

https://www.wnyc.org/story/bringing-woods-back-stage/

CREATIVE TEAMS

McCarter/Old Globe/Roundabout
Principal Cast: Jessie Austrian, Noah Brody, Alison Cimmet (Old Globe), Paul L. Coffey, Andy Grotelueschen, Liz Hayes, Claire Karpen, Jennifer Mudge (McCarter/Roundabout), Patrick Mulryan, Ben Steinfeld, Emily Young
Understudies: Adam Daveline, Lee Harrington, James Larson, Adam Marks (pianist), Vanessa Reseland
Choreography: Lisa Shriver
Music Director: Matt Castle
Designers:
Sets - Derek McLane
Costumes - Whitney Locher
Lights - Christopher Ackerlind (Roundabout), Tim Cryan (Old Globe, McCarter)
Sound - Darron L. West
Associate Director: Michael Perlman
Directors: Noah Brody and Ben Steinfeld

London
Principal Cast: Jessie Austrian, Noah Brody, Paul L. Coffey, Andy Groteleuschen, Liz Hayes, Harry Hepple, Claire Karpen, Steffan Lloyd-Evans, Patrick Mulryan, Vanessa Reseland, Ben Steinfeld, Laura Tebbutt, Emily Young
Understudies: Natasha Karp, James Haggie, Oliver Payne (pianist)
Choreography: Lisa Shriver
Music Director: Evan Rees
Designers:
Sets - Derek McLane
Costumes - Whitney Locher
Lights - Christopher Ackerlind
Sound - Darron L. West
Associate Director: Michael Perlman
Directors: Noah Brody and Ben Steinfeld

National Tour
Principal Cast: Phillipe Arroyo, Anthony Chatmon II, Eleasha Gamble, Evan Harrington, Lisa Helmi Johannson, Bonnie Kramer, Patrick Mulryan, Darrick Peade, Vanessa Reseland, Fred Rose, Stephanie Umoh, Laurie Veldheer
Understudies: Joshua Archer, Sean Forte (pianist), Javier Ignacio, Mary Kate Moore, Alanna Saunders
Choreography: Lisa Shriver
Music Director: Evan Rees
Designers:
Sets - Derek McLane
Costumes - Whitney Locher
Lights - Christopher Ackerlind
Sound - Darron L. West
Directors: Noah Brody and Ben Steinfeld

The lists above include the core creative teams, but are not comprehensive. We are grateful and lucky to have worked with everyone who made Into The Woods possible, from the teams backstage and front of house to design associates and interns, and all of you, our community and audience members.