Press
Edith Stein
"Filled with passion and passionate ideas."
New York Times
"As complex and compelling as the lady it portrays."
Pittsburgh Tribune Review
"Intelligent, compassionate...drama that challenges the audience, as Edith did, to face the struggles of humanity."
Pittsburgh Catholic
"Absolutely stunning...magnificent theatre."
Valley News Dispatch
“Full of passion and passionate ideas.”
The New York Times
"Love is synonymous with spiritual values. Audiences are desperate for it."
Interview with Los Angeles Times - BECOMING MEMORIES
"Arthur Giron’s provoking and disturbing look at the life of an enigmatic and controversial woman...has struck a blow for the theater of the mind."
Los Angeles Times review "Passionate Portrayal of Judeo-Christian Controversy" - EDITH STEIN
"...a riveting extended dialogue between Edith...and a Nazi officer...who becomes obsessed with conquering her spirit. Part interrogation, part creepy courtship, their encounters become a spiritual battleground of mythic dimensions."
Los Angeles Times story - "Personal Conflict at the Heart of ‘Stein’"
“May I make a bold statement?” asks Giron, having just taken a break from the first rehearsal. “I think that theater in general is the last haven of the truth. We’re not getting the truth in the newspapers. We’re not getting the truth in film. We’re not getting the truth on television at all. And so we in the theater have the responsibility to go under the surface of things,
to get to the raw stuff.”
Interview with LA Times on A DREAM OF WEALTH
"Arthur Giron...is one of our best contemporary dramatists."
Critic Rosette Lamont
“Giron is a wise, compassionate, and skilled playwright."
New York Theatre Wire
"Arthur Giron's words are what actors long to wrap their voices around."
New York Examiner
“The work’s plea for humanity derives strength from the playwright's…palpable passion and ample compassion.”
The New York Times
EDITH STEIN
"Filled with passion and passionate ideas." - New York Times
"As complex and compelling as the lady it portrays." - Pittsburgh Tribune Review
"Intelligent, compassionate...drama that challenges the audience, as Edith did, to face the struggles of humanity." - Pittsburgh Catholic
"Inspiring." - Northern California Jewish Bulletin
"Absolutely stunning...magnificent theatre." - Valley News Dispatch
Moving Bodies
" Physics of the heart [...] We learn about his (Feynman's) eccentricities: his bongo playing,
his penchant for picking locks, and most notably his appreciation for women."
The New York Times
"The Atomic Bomb is central to Giron's play, but it is also very much about human
loves and losses. Giron is a wise, compassionate, and skilled playwright."
New York Theatre Wire
"The themes in Moving Bodies are sex and science, atoms and anti-Semitism, consumerism and truth,
and dysfunctional families and romantic love. It is a fascinating and engrossing drama."
Backstage
Becoming Memories
Drama-Logue Critics Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatre
"Extols the virtues of an America solidly rooted in mid western values.... A comedy in the best sense, it celebrates the biological urge to survive despite adversity and affirms the triumph of love over fallibility"
Pittsburgh Press
"Superb theatre with the simplicity and power of Thornton Wilder."
San Diego Reader
Emilie's Voltaire
Winner of the Galileo Prize for Playwriting
"What happens when the minds of two seekers of knowledge, one a challenger of life and the other a hedonistic rule breaker, meet? The result is a tumultuous, fascinating 16-year love affair that is wonderfully portrayed in Arthur Giron's Emilie's Voltaire [...] The captivating Emilie's Voltaire is an inside look at genius and the underlying emotions that feed it. Definitely a bit of history you're pleased to discover."
OffBroadway.com
"The intellectual, emotional and sexual sparks fly...an unusual and fascinating play."
William Wolf, Wolf Entertainment Guide
"Arthur Giron's words are what actors long to wrap their voices around."
The New York Examiner
"A beautiful pas de deux of dialogue!"
- MusicOMH
Flight
"A witty, touching flashback ... There is poignancy between the laughs.
The New York Times
Amazing Grace
"AMAZING GRACE is having a national moment. The timing of this sweeping and inspirational new Broadway musical couldn't be better. The staging is superb, with moments of genuine astonishment. As spectacular as anything on Broadway, AMAZING GRACE tells the story of how the song came to be, and elicits widespread gasps & cheering from the audience!"
The Washington Post
"A gorgeous production of a glorious musical. Heart-stopping, eye-popping!"
DC Metro Theater Arts
"It brought tears to my eyes."
Chicago Tribune
"One of the best-looking musicals to reach New York in recent seasons."
The Wall Street Journal
"Inspirational. Beautiful. Emotional. Exhilarating."
Associated Press
"Nothing short of amazing!"
ABC TV
"A lavish historical epic!"
Newsday
"Sincere, Stirring, and Romantic."
Chris Jones Chicago Tribune
"A stirring musical. An epic romance. Artfully produced on the lavish scale of Les Mis."
Hedy Weiss
Chicago Sun-Times
"From the stellar performances to the flawless costumes,
‘Amazing Grace’ is nothing short of amazing!"
Hank Mendheim
Windy City Live ABC-TV
"Curious to know more? Make a beeline for the Nederlander theatre."
The New York Times
"This emotional and gripping story ensures you will never hear
the beautiful hymn ‘Amazing Grace’ the same way again."
Paul Lisnek
Comcast
"A musical of raw power with superb, intense performances."
Steve Oxman
Variety