Our staff will be unavailable from 11am on Friday 17th May until 9am on Tuesday 21st May, spreading the joy of jazz hands and spirit fingers at our Junior Theatre Festival in Birmingham. Our office will remain open, however, to accept deliveries of returned materials.
Critical Reaction
Critical Reaction
"Peter and the Starcatcher is all about storytelling as a lively (and live) art, and the energized complicity that s forged between the teller and the listener. ...The story simultaneously being told and celebrated is as elaborate, simple, cozy and scary as the best bedtime stories are."
– The New York Times
"A larky sance with Barrie's mythic characters: part pantomime, part story theatre, and all delight."
– The New Yorker
"Peter and the Starcatcher is a tiny show, but spectacle, wit, and joy spill out of it like treasure from a magic pocket. A cast of twelve, a couple of trunks, and a versatile length of rope yield more storytelling than most oversize spectaculars can manage. ... A miniature classic."
– New York Magazine
"Beaming with dizzy humor and delightful stage magic, Broadway's Peter and the Starcatcher is a big dipperful of fun. ...Peter Pan will never grow up. But his origin story has matured nicely."
– New York Daily News
"An absurdly funny fantastical journey!"
– Entertainment Weekly
"[Peter and the Starcatcher] soars deliriously high and gloriously far. ...The show is an astonishing inventory of stage trickery and verbal pyrotechnics."
– Time Out New York
"Charming and inventive.... The gold standard of Peter Pan shows."
– The New York Post
"Clever and joyous entertainment.... A celebration of youth and of the power of theater to inspire children and adults alike."
– Backstage
"That rare kind of theatrical event that can appeal equally to kids who will be captivated by the sentimental, action-packed plot and adults who will admire its imaginative theatricality."
– AM New York
"A richly imaginative and wonderful adventure that combines off-the-wall antic humor with touching sincerity."
– NY1
"Storytelling theater at its finest. ...This endlessly endearing Peter Pan prequel celebrates the glories of winking showmanship and the magic of emotion."
– San Jose Mercury News
"Rich in antic humor and theatrical invention."
– The Hollywood Reporter