“With tremendous flair, director Anna Hogan manages to harness enough stage wizardry to keep this all going for a focused one hour and 45 minutes while fulfilling Bray’s epic vision.

Friendly’s Fire shows us to what lengths one man will go to preserve the sanity of his friend - a veteran who lost his brother in service to our country.”

— Darryl Reilly, TheaterScene (Friendly’s Fire)

“All around, ‘Friendly’s Fire’ was an adventure. I walked out of the theatre with a feeling that I couldn’t quite place. A feeling that a great change had happened but I wasn’t sure what exactly. It kept me engaged. It moved me. It left me with plenty of questions and desperate for more.

And isn’t that what we all hope to get from good theatre?.”

— Max Berry, Contributing Critic - New York City, Onstage blog (Friendly’s Fire)

“Men have written quite a lot of plays about prostitution, so the female-driven ensemble’s work is quite refreshing—both emotionally accessible and bittersweet. 

Éléphant shows it is possible to be thirteen and female and bold and pregnant and happy and still have faith.

 Co-Directors Akia Squitieri and Anna Hogan expertly juggle a large, busy ensemble… this play offers a glimpse into the true power of a young person’s imagination.”

— Ed Malin, Theater is Easy (Éléphant)

“…Éléphant is the kind of script that could easily find success on Broadway.

But don’t wait! …when tickets for the big-theater production are hard to come by, you can brag to your friends that you saw the show in a more intimate setting…”

— Andrew Andrews , Opplaud (Éléphant)

“Rising Sun Performance Company is pure power. Founder Akia Squitieri and her team provide New York with some of the most envelope-pushing and daring pieces of live theatre seen.”

— Natasha Dawsen, Drama Queens Reviews (The Glory of Living, AD)

The direction and design of the piece is sophisticated, using light, sound and space to support the story firmly and beautifully.

— Dorian Palumbo, Drama Queens Reviews (The Glory of Living, AD)

“The cast for this show was instrumental in delivering an experience which at times was funny, other times uncomfortable in its rawness, and even tense as drawn piano wire during the confrontations.  Every actor should be commended for their performance in this piece”

— Chris Castellano, Outer-Stage (The Long Rail North, “Coal Car” Cassie)

“Anna Hogan's direction helps to make the distinctions between the painful past, the challenging present, and the intermediate states that the drugging has induced.

It's a fabulous, open-hearted ride that fans of Terry Gilliam will surely enjoy.”

— Ed Malin, Theatre is Easy (Friendly’s Fire)

“The entire cast works well and inventively to keep up and swing through different characters…

The technical credits are first rate for a small productions and the director keeps the evening crackling along.”

— Walter Thinnes, walterthinnes.com (Friendly’s Fire)

“What follows is a play incredibly moving in story and almost psychedelic in atmosphere…

We as the audience are given both perspectives, the magical and the real, and therefore are able to link each event like a puzzle, piecing together how each fantasy character relates to the real struggles at hand. This play is rich in metaphor and the excitement builds as each connection is made.”

— Max Berry, Contributing Critic - New York City, Onstage blog (Friendly’s Fire)

Three On A Match is a must see, not only for its harrowing subject matter but for its superior direction by Eric Parness and his assistant director Anna Hogan as well as its exceptional cast ....

It is also the play’s blend of the surreal, magical realism, along with the very real, marbled throughout with mind-triggering allusions and much mystery, all of which serve to keep the audience riveted to the stage. The playwright and the cast cautiously walk a wobbly tightrope with not a misstep in view.

— EDWARD RUBIN, Theater Criticism (Three on a Match, AD)

 “Anna Hogan as Cassie is a beautiful powerhouse, of whom both the Blue and the Gray are unworthy.”

— Ed Malin, Theater is Easy (The Long Rail North, “Coal Car” Cassie)

“Anna Hogan who played Coal Car Cassie provided a much-needed sense of balance between the extremes of racism shown from both sides of the conflict.  Her performance was wonderfully optimistic, and at times both funny and heartwrenching…

Anna presented us with a woman who was equal parts optimistic and pragmatic, and I enjoyed every minute of it.”

— Chris Castellano, Outer-Stage (The Long Rail North, “Coal Car” Cassie)

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