Press for BABES IN TOYLAND:
“Little Lord's Babes in Toyland keeps the kitsch but gives it a refreshingly off-kilter spin. It’s as if Santa’s most mischievous elves spiked the punch, raided a Goodwill, and staged a holiday pageant at the local elementary school. The result is an exuberantly campy rag-tag confection...a deliciously cheap, satisfying sugar rush with a little tartness thrown in for good measure.” - New York Theater Review
“Mother Goose meets Occupy Wall Street in Little Lord’s Babes in Toyland, a purposefully shoddy musical revamping of Victor Herbert’s 1903 operetta.” - New York Times profile! (plus picture!)
“Good lord! Toyland is terrific!” - NiteLifeExchange.com
“A Budget ‘Babes’ at the Brick” - feature in The Brooklyn Paper
Press for JEWQUEEN:
“A raucous, irreverently reverent manifestation of the Biblical Book of Esther. There is a charming unprofessional professionalism to the way JEWQUEEN plays on stage. In pretending to be amateurish, this company has created a sophisticatedly campy take on a meaningful, important Old Testament tale.” - offoffonline.com
“Taking the traditional "Purim spiel" and filtering it through their own comedic, queer, ironic sensibilities, the folks at theatre company Little Lord presents their thoroughly funny and entertaining take on the origins of the holiday known to some as "the Jewish Halloween." A blast! Even if you are a clueless goy. - Flavorpill (editor’s pick!)
“The show has a merrily tipsy, collegiate spirit, but also sneaks in some thoughtful notes and more of the story than they usually get in Hebrew school—in other words, the whole Megillah.” - Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
“Little Lord, who’ve made a forte out of re-telling old stories with a gender-bending, irreverent twist, are worth keeping an eye out for.” - Jewcy
Featured as a Time Out photo of the day!
Press for THIRST(y):
“[O’Neill] appears to have met his match...[THIRST(y)] is very much worthwhile. A lot to watch and an enormous amount of cleverness filling this production.” - nytheatre.com
“A cheap-and-cheerful show.” - TimeOut
Picked as one of WNYC's "Three to See!"
Featured in City's Best: "Might be important. Might also be cheeky. Might also be great fun."
“The acting and direction were terrific. The timing wonderful. Overall, the team knows what they are doing. I never say this about theatre, but it was too short!” - 2011 IT Judge
“This show entertained from beginning to end in the true spirit of innovative theater. The performances were in the moment and laugh out loud funny. The clever use of the sharks and the sun as characters along with the splitting of the dancer into three distinct roles, with progressively worsening costumes, symbolizing three moods (perhaps even three of the five stages of grief) turned a short sketch into a full fledged allegorical epic while leaving the important message of the original script still in tact: we will always be our own worst enemy. The production's design elements adapted and utilized the theatrical playing space with maximal effect. The end result was a fun and wonderful experience.” - 2011 IT Judge
Press for THE PRONOUN ‘I’:
“The magnificent Laura von Holt, the cheerful pin-up, goes the full Ionesco for Michael Levinton’s hot-pink take on Williams French absurdist period.” - TimeOut NY
Press for BABES IN TOYLAND:
“‘You were an accident,’ David Greenspan blithely informs one of his children during a snicker-worthy moment in "Babes in Toyland." A happy accident, a better mother (he's in drag) might have amended, like much of this show. To paraphrase another adapter of Victor Herbert's 106-year-old show, it's another fine mess, but worth getting into.” – VARIETY
“One of the dying forms of simple, yet delightful performance is the burlesque. And while I enjoy the reinvigorated neo-burlesque movement throughout the city, I'm referring more to the original sense: the satirical, goofy, campy renderings of other performances, politics, or themes of the day. Which is what makes the Little Lord Fauntleroys's Babes in Toyland so delightful. [It is] created from the stuff theatrical dreams are made of.” – OBSCENE JESTER
“Babes in Toyland is a satisfyingly gay romp. Michael Levinton's script manages to be poke fun at its own expense: necessity is the mother of invention, but as Mother Goose proves, not necessarily a very good mother. Thankfully, in conjunction with co-director Jose Zayas, he's able to poke hard enough, so fully shameless in his low-budget "errors" (props malfunction or don't move, sock puppets say the "darn"dest things) that the show's red-faced not with embarrassment but with glee.” – THAT SOUNDS COOL
“The main attraction here is not the sets or the songs but that human special effect [David] Greenspan, who slings insults and complaints with the gleeful flamboyance of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company.” – NEW YORK TIMES
“Laura von Holt's performance is a highlight: She grabs this bossy, narcissistic, preening adolescent and takes off. Whether stomping about in a huff or hiding behind a ridiculous French accent, she's a hoot.” – BACKSTAGE
“The show I saw was a 90-minute retelling of Babes in Toyland, an über campy version that swooped, pranced and generally used that odd but interesting Ohio Theatre space to its utmost. Previous Ice Factory shows have gone on to the Joyce, PS 122, the Edinburgh Fringe among others and won Obies and I can see why.” – SHORT AND SWEET NYC
Press for THIRST(y) - 2009: