Tom Jones Reviews

MD Theatre Guide- Highly Recommended

"... Ambition is in no short supply at Lumina Studio Theatre. Tackling an epic is not only not beyond their sights, but rather standard with this adventurous little theatre in Silver Spring/Takoma Park. In their original adaptation of Henry Fielding’s 18th Century classic novel, Tom Jones, they have taken a massive satirical work of well over 300,000 words, chronicling the life and times of its titular hero from youth to marriage, journeying through every facet of English society, and turned out a play with seventy roles shared among some thirty-five performers."

DCTheatreScene- Recommended

There are companies which do epics, and then there is Lumina Studio. Having put together a sixty-character amalgamation of Henry VI Part 1, 2 and 3, in which no actor was above the age of 19, Lumina now tops itself by producing a seventy-character musical version of Tom Jones, with songs imported from John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera.