"Director Joseph C. Walsh has assembled a top-notch cast, though, and his scenic and lighting designers have done a whiz-bang job of creating a beautifully theatrical world. Scenic designer Joe C. Klug’s movable bookcases have a “once upon a time” feel to them and play up the story’s theme that reading equals knowledge equal power — even if you are a 5-year-old girl. Alyx Jacobs’ lighting takes that fairy-tale quality and gives it a quirky, eye-popping twist — in the same way Dahl put his own off-kilter stamp on children’s literature."

                             -Orlando Sentinel ("Matilda")