NATIVE GARDENS CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE | Karen Zacarías (playwright); Robert Barry Fleming (director); Jason Ardizzone-West (set designer); Michael Boll (lighting designer); Inda Blatch-Geib (costume designer); Rodolfo Ortega (sound designer); Maryann Morris (stage manager); Anton Volovsek, Emma Antenen, Ingrid Larson (assistant set designers); Anais Bustos, Natalie Camunas, Grayson DeJesus, Wynn Harmon, Charlotte Maier, Julia, Rosa Sosa, Anthony Velez (actors); Penny Zaletel (director of production); George Blogna (technical director); Ian Stillman (associate technical director); Megan Walsh (charge scenic artist); Kelly Ann Sherlock (scenic painter); Meghan O’Brien (props master); Rai Feltmann (assistant props master).

PRESS

BROADWAY WORLD REVIEW
”Jason Ardizzone-West’s scenic design is breathtaking. Every detail, every flower, tree and shrub reeks real! As someone in the audience said, “I want to move into that house (referring to the perfectly conceived House and Garden domicile of Frank and Virginia).”
Broadway World (Roy Berko)

THE NEWS HERALD REVIEW
"Director Robert Barry Fleming does a remarkable job not punching those punchlines too hard or giving into the temptation to capitalize on all that is so sitcom in Zacarias’ script… Instead, he serves up a smart and purposefully paced piece of theater with a warm center and appealing tenacity. This is facilitated by Jason Ardizzone-West’s stunningly realistic scenic design that fills the performance space with the rear halves and fully-appointed backyards of a pair of two-story brick century homes, one of which is appropriately white-washed. The set is enriched by Michael Boll’s lighting and Rodolfo Ortega’s ambient sound. Long-time Cleveland Play House patrons who recall walking into the old Drury Theatre on Cedar Avenue and greeting the stage with a standing ovation will be similarly tempted.”
The News Herald (Bob Abelman)

COOL CLEVELAND REVIEW
“Scenic designer Jason Ardizzone-West’s gorgeous set supplied their unlikely battleground with a simple, but brilliant design: two backyards, one an English garden, and the other an unfinished “natural” garden complete with a huge oak tree…”
Cool Cleveland (Laura Kennelly)