PRESS
The New York Times
Feature Article: Adventures in a Sinister Wonderland
By Siobhan Burke | August 9, 2013
"… a lush, if fragmented story arrives by way of the exacting, exuberant choreography."
Brooklyn Magazine
The 100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture
By Brooklyn Magazine | March 1, 2016
"... what better time to celebrate some of the many people who are shaping Brooklyn culture today, those people responsible for the words we want to read, the films we want to see, the music we want to hear, the art we want to experience, the spaces we want to inhabit... work that continues to make Brooklyn not just culturally relevant, but culturally vital."
The New Yorker
Goings On About Town/Review
By New Yorker Staff | April 1, 2013
"wildly imaginative… an anxiety-provoking but exciting theatrical encounter… Wonderfully written, directed, and choreographed."
The New York Times
Year in Theater: Ben Brantley’s Top 10 of 2012
By Ben Brantley | December 16, 2012
"The immersive theater company Third Rail’s personal guided tour of Alice’s Wonderland, in a former outpatient hospital in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. A show that makes you understand — and takes you to, via a labyrinth of intricately arranged rooms — the place where Lewis Carroll was coming from.”
Vogue
Theater: People Are Talking About - Wonderland
By Adam Green | April, 2013
BEST IN THEATER 2013:
"… haunting, hallucinatory, and profoundly intimate."
American Theatre Magazine
Dance or Theatre? Yes.
By Kelundra Smith | February 23, 2016
The New York Times
Starring Me! A Surreal Dive into Immersive Theater
By Sarah Lyall | January 7, 2016
"... intimate and tightly choreographed… After a while, it felt as if we were dreaming, or mad, so febrile and charged was the atmosphere…You cannot feel more immersed than that."
The New York Times
Theater Review by Ben Brantley: “Lewis Carroll is in a Hospital”
By Ben Brantley | December 1, 2012
CRITIC’S PICK: "This show occupies a dreamscape where the judgments and classifications of the waking mind are inoperative, and where the single self keeps splitting and blurring."
The Economist
Return to Wonderland
By D.S.K. | September 23, 2014
"Then She Fell does what the best retellings set out to do: it offers a new framework through which to contemplate a familiar story."
American Theatre Magazine
The Walls Come Tumbling Down
By Diep Tran | July, 2013
"It requires us to have an ease that we would have in everyday life, says co-creator Tom Pearson, who plays the White Rabbit, sans bunny suit. It’s very cinematic. When the screen is right there in front of your face, it picks up everything. It’s the same when you’re in a room with someone."
Gothamist
Follow the Rabbithole To Williamsburg For The Best Show So Far This Year
By John Del Signore | March 15, 2013
"an enthralling theatrical spell is being woven… as unsettling as it is enchanting."
Forbes
Feature Article - "Theater for the Video Game Generation"
By Seth Porges | October 29, 2012
"Secret rooms and passageways are the norm, as are sets that guests are encouraged to explore by sifting through drawers, pockets, and papers. Think of them as haunted houses that do more than just scare."
The Wall Street Journal
Feature Article: “A Macabre Misadventure in Wonderland”
By Lizzie Simon | October 4, 2012
"Then She Fell’ will offer a more deliberately crafted experience… to allow all of the guests to discover and accumulate bits of story until they leave with the satisfaction of having co-created, with the show itself, a narrative arc and resolution."
Time Out New York
Theater Review: “Alice gets a new Wonderland: an abandoned hospital in Greenpoint, Brooklyn”
By Jenna Scherer | October 8, 2012
CRITIC’S PICK | 4 STARS: "Stunningly personal… When you peer into the looking glass, it stares right back at you."
BRIC TV
Then She Fell: Caught In The Act
by BRIC TV | October 2, 2012
American Theatre Wing
Working In The Theatre: Immersive Theatre
by American Theatre Wing | April 29, 2014
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TIME Magazine
Total Immersion
By Richard Zoglin | TIME | June 24, 2013
"… this is extreme theater: fresh, fun, totally absorbing, a full contact sport with no rules and no boundaries."
New York Daily News
Feature Article: “Go ask Alice: Theater group will turn old Greenpoint Hospital building into an interactive wonderland”
By Lore Croghan | New York Daily News | July 17, 2012
Broadway World
BWW Reviews: THEN SHE FELL: All Mad Here
By Duncan Pflaster | Broadway World | November 30th, 2012
Odyssey Works
TOM PEARSON ON DREAM LOGIC
By Ana Freeman | Odyssey Works | April 12, 2016
Deep Media
Way-way-off-Broadway: How the immersive theater of 'Then She Fell' resonates with the digital world
By Frank Rose | Deep Media | June 10, 2013
New Statesman
Feature & Interview with Zach Morris
By Tara Isabella Burton | New Statesman | June 1, 2013
"Third Rail has created something utterly strange, magnificently surreal: undoubtedly Wonderland."
Imaginary Worlds
Episode 42: Then She Fell
By Eric Molinsky | Imaginary Worlds
Backstage
“Topsy-Turvy ‘Then She Fell’ is Magical”
By Jason Fitzgerald | Backstage | March 18, 2013
"The lusciously and meticulously designed world, full of strange knickknacks and worn furniture, teases every nerve at the imagination’s disposal."
TDF Stages
“Your Private Trip Through Lewis Carroll’s Mind”
By Raven Snook | TDF Stages | March, 2013
"… quite accessible and very visceral. It’s impossible to move through the scenes without becoming involved, emotionally and otherwise."
Stage and Cinema
“Review of Then She Fell”
By Sarah Taylor Ellis | Stage and Cinema | March 26, 2013
"… the manipulation of perspective and the use of space is ever imaginative, and the intimate (and often one-on-one) scenes are wondrous.."
NBC
Review: “Then She Fell” at the Kingsland Ward in Williamsburg
By Robert Kahn | NBC | March 15, 2013
"Attention to detail is mind-boggling… the experience is unlike anything I’ve had"