From Portfolio Magazine
(Robert P. Arthur): Complete review (PDF)

PORTFOLIO AWARD WINNER for Best Comedy - 2001/02

PORTFOLIO AWARD WINNER for Best Direction - 2001/02

A Midsummer Night's Dream last weekend pretty much made a farce of local amateur theater standards.

"Breese' s direction was so good - so inventive and expressive - that the play might have been intelligible in Arabic had there been only the most perfunctory of subtitles."

The following elements were on the level of professional regional theater: set and lighting (George Hillow); costumes (Laurel Tsirimokos Goncalves); direction (Steven Breese); and some of the actors...

Breese's presence on campus, by the way, is the product of a nationwide talent search that is continuing; another quality director (bringing the number to three) will probably be added even before the ground breaking for the new arts center in 2002."

"Theater folk of the Southside who haven't seen a CNU production of late should take abrupt and serious notice."

Christopher Newport University is far from doing business as usual. It is quite deliberately in the process of establishing a national presence in the arts, and, to that end, is stock piling faculty talent and projecting spending about $50 million on its new arts center."