“Director Tina Satter turned this exercise in theater vérité, in which the blandest conversational clichés come loaded with unspecified menace, into a Kafka-like nightmare with a tension level worthy of Hitchcock.”
- New York Times
“Re-righting the script, is what Is This A Room achieved with subtle mastery by staging the transcript.”
- ARTFORUM
“A sharp, blindingly polished slice of theater vérite.”
- New York Times Critic’s Pick
“If you were only going to go to one play the rest of the year make it this one.”
- New York Theatre Guide
“An agonizingly suspenseful, often mordantly funny verbal scrimmage.”
- America Magazine
“Pure Pinter-like energy to the language, evasions, pauses. All of the actors are doing incredible work."
— David Cote, New York Drama Critics Circle
“The brilliant production by Half Straddle was created and directed by Tina Satter whose curiosity led her to follow links to the transcript.”
- Phindie.com
“The most nerve-wracking, edge-of-your-seat drama currently on view doesn’t come from the pen of Agatha Christie…”
- The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Here they are, the coolest, hippest, most “over it” makers in the schoolyard, pivoting to make a blistering piece of political theater. They’ve kept their powder dry all this time, I guess. And this is the BOOM.”
- ARTFORUM
“Tina Satter’s direction and Half Straddle’s pitch-perfect company establish and then maintain an unblinking focus.”
- Culturebot
“Satter was reminded of ‘this kind of self-assured female character’ that is the heart of what I’m interested in.”
- The New Yorker
“Ms. Winner’s status as a young woman navigating an unfamiliar world connected it to other Half Straddle shows.”
- New York Times
“The transcript set Satter’s theatrical imagination ablaze. After workshopping the material with actors, designers, and a composer, that something has turned out to be an artful staging of the unadulterated FBI text.”
- The Intercept
“The outstanding cast flawlessly performs what appears to be every unredacted word of the transcript, including stutters and coughs and bizarre half-thoughts.”
- Contemporary Performance
“On one stage we have both real fear and feminine swagger—two emotions we rarely see together. And these feelings are the show. These artists deserve rabid groupies.”
-TimeOut New York
“The mixed, shifting layers of myth and format gave the show a charm and a depth beyond what just a rock show, a play, or a spoken word performance could achieve. Some things you can’t just say out loud. Some things you have to say through an internal spirit being, or through a rock song.”
- Oregon ArtsWatch
“The show concluded with a hopeful and bombastic pop song about the power of love, and I'd be lying if I said it didn't shift some stuff around in the place where I store my feelings.”
-The Portland Mercury
"Fantastical, odd and sometimes so tender it's raw, 'Ghost Rings' is a pop concert with a drama inside."
- The New York Times
"The sight and sounds of Ghost Rings will linger in your mind long after you see it."
- New York Theatre Review
"Satter’s women fantasize about procreation without men, about holding a piece of another woman in their bodies. In language that is revelatory through its very strangeness, Satter echoes this desire."
-Culturebot
"Ms. Satter is a genre-and-gender-bending, visually exacting stage artist who has developed an ardent following among downtown aesthetes with a taste for acidic eye candy and erotic enigmas."
– New York Times
"Ms. Satter’s work is a vitalizing blend of coziness and estrangement, weirdness and familiarity."
– New York Times
"Ancient Lives plays out in a dream like quality... The production at the Kitchen is a feast of impeccable design work."
– New York Theatre Review
"There is a strikingly synthetic quality to Tina Satter's seductive and mesmerizing Ancient Lives, a play that entwines adolescence and obsolescence in order to un-tell a familiar story."
– ARTFORUM
"'Dancing With the Stars' it most definitely is not. And that’s part of what makes Tina Satter’s 'House of Dance,' at the Abrons Arts Center, so very refreshing."
– New York Times Critic's Pick
"Might be one of the finest multimedia explorations of musically inclined back-to-nature hipster witches ever."
– Blouin ArtInfo
"Great work of destabilizing documentary theater.”
- New York Times