REMEMBRANCE MONDAY
World Premiere
Seven Dials Theatre | London
“Souza’s direction is taut and imaginative, ensuring that the story retains its nerve-racking pace. The final image, where sound, lights, story, and performance feverishly come together, is unforgettable.”
Richard Maguire
Reviews Hub
”With Souza’s fast-paced but sensitive direction, the Seven Dials Playhouse has a wonderful hit on its hands. And the performances that Souza has been able to draw out of the play’s two actors are extraordinary.”
Daryl Bennett
UK Theatre Web
”Remembrance Monday shines with directorial brilliance – a truly terrific piece of theatre.”
Darren Lee Murphy
theatreaudiencepodcast
”Superb direction by Alan Souza.”
Oviya Thirumalai
Adventures in Theatreland
CAMELOT
Drury Lane Theatre | Chicago
“Alan Souza’s genuinely revisionist new production at the Drury Lane Theatre –a Camelot that takes the far bigger risks and leaps of modernity and that departs the most thoroughly from the usual approach. It's certainly a fascinating and accessible version of one of the great American musicals, at once period-appropriate and very fresh.”
Chris Jones
Chicago Tribune
”The new Drury Lane Theatre revival of Camelot — directed by Alan Souza – might very well put it back in the spotlight. What Souza has done is akin to what filmmaker Franco Zeffirelli did decades ago for Romeo and Juliet. He stripped the show of its aura of uptight sophistication and made it fresh and accessible, with a truthfulness and sexiness just right for the Millennial generation. Unspooling at a rapid clip, with the storytelling exceptionally clear, this Camelot is very much of the moment in both its political and social tuning. And its full embrace of an ending that suggests idealism is largely a fleeting dream seems just right.”
Hedy Weiss
Chicago Sun-Times
MY FAIR LADY
Olney Theatre | Washington, D.C.
“A roaring new version of a classic!”
Barbara Mackay
Theatremania
“As re-imagined by director Alan Souza, the timeline has been moved to a few years ahead, from the turn of the century to the beginning of the 1920’s – all the more to make this tale of man-versus-woman into a take on woman-versus-society. Souza turns a more intimate love story into a richer yarn of society itself changing.”
Jill Kyle-Keith
DC Theatre Scene
“Seriously, I understood and enjoyed My Fair Lady in a new and expanded way – a fresh, hot, and deliciously satisfying re-envisioning of Lerner and Loewe’s classic.”
Mark Beachy
MD Theatre Guide
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Drury Lane Theatre | Chicago
“Director Alan Souza and choreographer Ron De Jesus have packed the new Drury Lane production with a feast of sumptuous dazzle. There are real emotional stakes on the Oakbrook Terrace stage. Souza’s cast knows how to bring down the house and deliver on the smaller moments, too.”
Catey Sullivan
Chicago Sun-Times
“Director Alan Souza and his creative team deliver a refreshingly original vision, giving the talented cast space to breathe new life into familiar characters. The result is a beautifully designed, thoughtfully staged, and strongly acted fairy tale that should delight. As Souza observes in his director's note, Beauty and the Beast is about the power of learning to see past surface differences and find true community in our common humanity. It's a beautiful message to embrace, now as much as ever, and this production makes the journey thoroughly entertaining, moving, and ultimately uplifting.”
Emily McClanahan
Broadway World
MOURNING THE LIVING
Abingdon Theatre / Dorothy Strelsin | NYC
“The play was exceptionally well-acted and very moving thanks to subtle performances by all, under Alan Souza’s sensitive direction.”
Myra Chanin
Theater Pizzazz
“Mourning the Living is a brave and fierce look at a caregiver. Director Alan Souza has great feeling for this play. He allows humanity to rise with a tender touch.”
Suzanna Bowling
Times Square Chronicles
WAIT UNTIL DARK
John W Engeman Theater | New York
“A good scare is the point of most thrillers, and the production of Wait Until Dark, now being staged at the John W. Engeman Theater at Northport delivers a spellbinding final scene that fulfills the promise of the play’s reputation as a classic.”
Aileen Jacobson
The New York Times
”The Alan Souza-directed production of Frederick Knott's suspense-filled Wait Until Dark will have you at the edge of your seat in anticipation and apprehension for the entire show.”
Melissa Giordano
Broadway World
RENT
John W Engeman Theater | New York
“Even more powerful than before; a reminder of how awful it was and, for millions worldwide, it still is. The athletic, vibrant, strong-voiced young cast at the Engeman Theater, stylishly directed by Alan Souza, works hard to evoke the era and succeeds.”
Anita Gates
The New York Times
“Rent, the rock opera with live-for-the-moment urgency, is now the young Engeman Theatre’s finest moment. Alan Souza pulls this sprawling interpersonal soap together with clarity and dignity.”
Steve Parks
Newsday
