COLD WAR CHOIR PRACTICE
a play with music by Ro Reddick
directed by Knud Adams
music direction by Ellen Winterwith Alana Raquel Bowers, Will Cobbs, Nina Grollman, Andy Lucien, Grace McLean, Lizan Mitchell, Mallory Portnoy, Suzzy Roche, Ellen Winter
set design by Afsoon Pajoufar
lighting design by Masha Tsimring
sound design by Kathy Ruvuna
costume design by Brenda Abbandandolo
movement by Baye & Asa
stage managed by Christina M. Woolard
Clubbed Thumb + Page 73, 2025
American Theatre Magazine: Feature
3 Views on Theater: Feature
REVIEWS
[Critic’s Pick] “A brainy new comedy by Ro Reddick that’s infused with choral music and spiked with espionage. Directed by Knud Adams, and featuring a jewel-studded cast, the play finishes this year’s edition of Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks festival on a high.”
Laura Collins-Hughes, The New York Times
”Under Knud Adams’ artful direction and Baye & Asa’s creative movement, the choir gracefully embody more tertiary characters from a Soviet spy to a TV show guest. No movement is off-limits as McLean hides in plain sight against the wall in a campy covert pose, or the choir suddenly transforms into a bathroom stall.”
Ashley M. Thomas, 3 Views on Theater
”Knud Adams directs the gifted cast and helps define this universe of geopolitical threats and localized inner turmoil.”
Nicole Serratore, exteunt
[⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑] “Ro Reddick, fresh out of Brown’s MFA theatre program, knows what buttons to push, and how. In this tongue-in-cheek spy caper, she needles our collective complacency lightly, wittily.”
Sandy MacDonald, New York Notebook
(photos by Maria Baranova)