NY DAILY NEWS
Get a glimpse of The Rover in motion, plus an up-close look into the costume design from our costume designer, Emily White.

ONSTAGE
“Under the direction of Artistic Director Pitr Strait, the play is staged wonderfully and utilizes the massive outdoor space and its architecture to great advantage, giving the talented and energetic cast plenty of space and its architecture to great advantage, giving the talented and energetic cast plenty of space, over the course of the show.”

NY DAILY NEWS
“Yes, we are trying to get people’s attention. But it’s not a gimmick. That implies dazzle with nothing behind it. There’s a mission here.”

METRO
“One of the things we love about The Rover is its empathetic and human portrayal of a sex worker... especially noteworthy considering the play was written three and a half centuries ago.”

BROADWAY WORLD
"We think The Rover - a play that's all about which sides of ourselves we expose to each other, and which ones we hide - is perfect for our approach to nudity."

TIME OUT NY
"Director Pitr Strait shares some details: 'Our past shows have aimed to use nudity in non-sexual contexts, but The Rover is a play about sexual freedom and romantic relationships. Our production will still show nudity in non-sexual ways,' he adds, 'with an exploration of the way that we do sexualize each others’ bodies.'”

MEL MAGAZINE
An in-depth interview with Pitr Strait about the whys and hows of Torn Out's Hamlet.

NY DAILY NEWS
"Compared to the enormity of the role of Hamlet, “being nude on stage is small potatoes,” actor Jake Austin Robertson told The News. “Nonetheless, I’d be lying if I said I’m not nervous. Upon being offered the part, I was cautious about the role of nudity, or let’s say nakedness, which I think holds deeper significance, in the play.”"

COSMOPOLITAN
"We're all different, we don't all look like normally pretty, or normally good looking, we don't all have six-packs. We're normal people. I want someone in the audience to see themselves, I don't want them to feel alone."

LIVE WITH KELLY AND RYAN
Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest discuss our production of Hamlet on Live with Kelly and Ryan.

ONSTAGE.COM

"The directors, Pitr Strait and Alice Mottola, deserve praise for both concept and execution."

THE GUARDIAN
"...seamlessly [creates] the effect that the audience too is careening around an island."

HUFFINGTON POST
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"...an artful mix of nudity, nature, freedom and artistic expressionism—so much so that the mere fact that the actors were nude faded into the background after a few minutes."

GOTHAMIST
A short interview about the whats and whys of our production of The Tempest.