A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Helena and Hermia’s catfight is a bravura performance. So is the donnybrook involving all four lovers.

Intimate Apparel

Where Theater J’s rendition excels is in staging the intimacy foregrounded in the title. While the Edlavitch’s small stage cramps a few of the production’s tableaus, Hernandez’s expertise in composition, aided by intimacy coordinator Cliff Williams III, shines through.

Intimate Apparel

scenes in which Esther must dress her clients... benefit from the work of intimacy coordinator Cliff Williams III.

Davenant’s Macbeth

The action spills offstage… as Macbeth’s final, electrifying duel commences amid the orchestra seats.

Goodbody

The action in this dark comedy, whether it’s the initial heart-pounding gunshot or the somewhat comical showdown, is helped by Cliff Williams’ fight direction, with each sequence inciting in the audience both gasps and giggles alike.

Girl in the Red Corner

What Fight Director Clifford Williams III has done brilliantly is carry these characters’ storylines vividly through their every grapple, grimace, and groan.

Scorched

Simon’s fight sequences - his opponent is never shown - seem absolutely authentic; Strain and Fight Choreographer Cliff Williams III deserve considerable credit.

The Argument

…this new production…opens not with a pronouncement, but with a man and a woman bursting into an apartment, where they proceed, very entertainingly, to rip each other’s clothes off

The Scene

a frenzied and smartly choreographed sexual coupling

The Scene

a gymnastic sex scene that practically puts Charlie in traction is priceless