"Kalle Macrides' new play Noir is intriguing...  Director Cory Einbinder and choreographer Laura Peterson match Macrides note for note in a production that blends high- and low- tech aesthetics to produce some very cool indie theater...  Noir is a fine showcase for Einbinder and his wizardly technical colleagues, and it's also a keen entertainment wrought by a talented writer and ensemble."
  --  NYTheatre.com (see the complete review)

"Noir  is a studiously rendered exercise in translating the visual aesthetic of film noir into a live theatre experience.  Ingeniously designed by Cory Einbinder, who also directed, the production sets its detective-story action within a slick milieu in which everything is black or white, rectangular, two- dimensional, framed by rolling panels and screens, and bathed in deep shadows or sharp streams of light.  Nothing is curve- shaped or three-dimensional except the actors.  Most intriguing are Einbinder's cleverly designed props:  Be it a bottle, a telephone, or a coffee cup, they are all flat and angular, wooden cutouts with magnets on the bottom that allow them to stand up on the linear furniture.  A briefcase full of cash is flat as a pancake.  Even the steering wheel of a car isn't round; it's diamond-shaped.  Noir sports a deliciously edgy musical score composed by Tara Gladden and the Evil Horns, a combo of sax, flute, drums, bass, and clarinet.  Performed live by the Evil Horns with band leader Nicole D'Agostino under the musical direction of Gladden, the hard-driving jazz music brilliantly evokes the postwar period and pays homage to classic movie music."
  --  BackStage