Press

Reviews

AZAD(the rabbit and the wolf):
Potrero Stage, San Francisco April-May 2025
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Brainpeople:
American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco, Jan.-Feb. 2008

  •  “Tatoyan opens up by carefully calculated degrees from repressed, paranoid Armenian, carrying a history of persecution, to empathetic catalyst.” -Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle

  • “Ani (played superbly by Sona Tatoyan) must make the nerve-racking journey through the city’s many checkpoints … This real-time drama, with standout performances, unfolds beautifully and offers great insight into how basic human desires can go bizarrely astray when the world is falling apart.” -Giattina, San Francisco Bay Guardian Online

  • “The discomfiture of Tatoyan’s primly dressed, bespectacled character … provides an oft-needed reality check.” 
    -Chloe Veltman, SF Weekly

  • “The performances by Rene Augesen, Sona Tatoyan, and Lucia Brawley kept me mesmerized – it was like watching a fireworks show with no damage control … Brilliant acting by everyone.” -Lee Hartgrave, Beyond Chron

  • “Tatoyan fares best, largely because Ani is allowed some consistency even when her own hidden nuttiness spills out.”
    -Dennis Harvey, Variety

  • “Tatoyan  delivers an outstanding performance, one that ends with a potent and very surprising transformation.”
    -Tiffany Maleshefski, Theater Mania

  • “Tatoyan, an impressive newcomer to the company, is the playwright’s wife, but there is no nepotism about her casting – she is exactly right for the role.” -Janos Gereben, The Examiner
Boleros for the Disenchanted:  
Yale Repertory Theatre, Connecticut, May 2008
  • “Sprightly and engaging Tatoyan … gives a charming performance as a young woman who will not buy into Manuelo’s machismo philosophy.”-Geary Danihy, Connecticut Critics Circle

  • “The Yale Rep cast is exceptional, believably inhabiting a world where humor, pain, poetry and grace exist simultaneously.  As Flora young and old, Tatoyan and Sevan are both suitably self-possessed, sharp-tongued, funny and fraught.” -Frank Rizzo, Variety
Red Scare on Sunset: 
​The Attic Theatre, Los Angeles, Sept.-Oct. 2008
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  • “As Marta Towers, Sona Tatoyan perfectly captures the heightened delivery that was a hallmark of Hollywood acting in the days before Strasberg and Meisner.” -Steven Stanley, Stage Scene LA

  • “Indicating is a must in Busch productions and Droege, Tarantino, Tatoyan and  Whitlock mug for each other and audience until it hurts to laugh.”-Conrad  Angel Corral, Actor's Ink

  • “Tatoyan is properly ruthless as the Russky dragon lady." -Neal Weaver, Backstage

  • “Especially memorable are the female contingent: namely … Sona Tatoyan as the evil femme fatale Marta Towers.”
    -Don Grigware, Grigware Talks Theatre

  • “Sona Tatoyan, as the seductive secret agent Marta Towers, is restrained perfection.” - Wenzel Jones, Frontiers Magazine