Recent Theater Shows
MOLIÈRE: 400 YEARS CELEBRATION
LAMBS FOR SLAUGHTER
ADAPTED SHORT STORIES BY ROALD DAHL
THE RISE AND FALL OF MACONDO
INSPIRED BY 100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE BY GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
NINA BERBEROVA/ IVAN BUNIN: IN PARIS/WAITER AND THE SLUT
THE SEAGULL
Luisa starred as Nina in Chekhov's timeless Masterpiece 'The Seagull' at Pushkin Hall, Manhattan.
(...)we can’t help ourselves but to fall in love with Konstantin and Nina, the two young lovers in this story beautifully and intensely portrayed by Paolo Quiros and Luisa Menzen.
Acclaimed Russian director Aleksey Burago and The Russian Arts Theater and Studio performed an encore run of Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Or, The Devil Comes to Moscow, a stage adaptation by Jean-Claude Van Itallie based on the cult masterpiece The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. Luisa was seen as Hella in this production.
ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE
Enemies of the People: Poetry & Music Under Stalinist Regime is an evening of wine, live music, prose, memoirs and poetry by Anna Akhmatova, Mikhail Bulgakov, Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva, Dmitry Shostakovich, Boris Pasternak and others, performed by our Ensemble! Directed by Aleksey Burago.
LADY WITH A LAPDOG,
WITH JOKES AND A HAPPY ENDING
Lady with a Lapdog with Jokes and a Happy Ending, played at The Theater for the New City and at Pushkin Hall, Manhattan.
'Luisa Menzen warms the audience like a summer’s day. Her work in each scene is intricate and heartfelt. When she smiles, it is impossible not to feel joy. When she sits atop a lonely, snowy hill, looking down at everything a sled cannot give her, your heart has no choice but to shatter and melt away. In an astounding act of theatrical magic, she stands under a pillar of falling snow. Trapped within memory’s snow globe; encased in time. The soft elegance and beauty in her gentle movements will remain imprinted within you.' --Theater Pizzaz
THE MASTER AND MARGARITA, OR THE DEVIL COMES TO MOSCOW
The Master and Margarita, or, the devil comes to Moscow at the West End Theater. A sold out run by The Russian Arts Theater & Studio, directed be renowned Russian stage director Aleksey Burago, in which Luisa starred in as the role of Hella.
The first act consists mostly of the debauchery of Woland and his entourage:(...) and a witch, Hella (Luisa Menzen in a sexy maid outfit). To the audience’s delight, those five almost never leave the stage, observing the humans from up on ladders or, more often, blending in with the crowd and spreading havoc and disaster for sheer amusement.
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Luisa has recently starred in the run of Crime and Punishment at the West End Theater in New York City. A production by The Russian Arts Theater & Studio, directed by internationally renowned Russian director Aleksey Burago.
''Luisa Menzen (Dunya Raskolnikova), is enchanting as the sister of Raskolnikov, making adept transitions between familial love and the romantic love of her suitor.''