Reviews
“Coleman Ray Clark makes an audacious San Diego directing debut with “The Strangers,” creating a shape-shifting theaterscape that’s at times haunting, funny, disturbing, visually dazzling and filled with surprises.” – Pam Kragen, San Diego Tribune
THE STRANGERS (Chalk Circle Collective)
“Beautifully directed by Coleman Ray Clark, his staging has a shape-shifting fluidity. Scenes slip unexpectedly from humor to horror, from intimacy to alienation. Clark embraces the instability of Peña’s world, creating a production that feels alive and constantly shifting.” – ErinMarie Reiter, BroadwayWorld
THE STRANGERS (Chalk Circle Collective)
“Coleman Ray Clark’s direction has these vignettes flow and manage the rhythm and style of the characters, from soft-spoken to passionate and vocal.” – Alejandra Enciso, From Another Zero
THE STRANGERS (Chalk Circle Collective)
“This handsomely appointed production holds nothing back in the monstrousness of its characters. But it does infuse more, much-welcomed humor into the story than I remember seeing in previous San Diego productions.” – Pam Kragen, San Diego Tribune
WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (Backyard Renaissance)
“Clark and Gercke give Albee’s exhaustive narrative lots of room while aptly emphasizing its most timely blasts and blow-ups.” – David Coddon, Stage West
WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (Backyard Renaissance)
“The cast… under the direction of Coleman Ray Clark, are phenomenal, each mastering a number of characters within Papa’s lengthy script.” – David Bernabo, Medium
PAPA (New Hazlett Theater)
News
“In ‘Viral Monologues,’ Theater Mutates Into Online Deliverance” (New York Times)
“Instant Artifacts of a Disconnected Time (and Lots of Hugh Dancy)” (NY Times Critic’s Notebook)
“‘The Strangers’ takes a fresh look at today’s American towns” (San Diego Union Tribune)
Watch Coleman in “Working in the Theatre: The 24 Hour Plays Viral Monologues” (American Theatre Wing)
“PROFILE | Coleman Ray Clark has turned childhood dreams of the stage into successful career” (NW Arkansas Democrat Gazette)
“NWA native Coleman Ray Clark to direct thrilling musical “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” in Springdale” (Fayetteville Flyer)
“The future of theater: Young creators find ways to move forward” (NW Arkansas Democrat Gazette)