"Hands in her pockets and subtle poison on her tongue, Ishida seems to conjure the entire breadth of lesbian exploitation cinema. The scene in which she pops out of a trunk in Imogen’s chamber to soliloquize over her body is especially creepy, reminiscent of Barbara Covett in Notes on a Scandal. She later appears as a jailer with (you guessed it) a giant ring of keys. Ishida understands the assignment and delivers the most convincing performance in support of Brown-Fried’s vision..."

- Zachary Stewart, Theatermania

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"What, director Stephen Brown-Fried asks, does it mean for the locker-room objectification to come from a woman’s mouth?…but no one is as interesting as Iachimo (Anna Ishida), one of Shakespeare’s most subtly sinister villains…“he” climbs out of a trunk in her room during the night...Iachimo, even if he is being played by a woman, is all man here—the searing dread of the moment depends on it”

- Catherine Sawaki, IMPULSE

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"The National Asian American Theater Company’s production, using a lucid modern verse translation by Andrea Thome, is frankly a delight: funny, absorbing, even affecting. And with not a single man among its wonderfully strong cast, it has both a sense of frolic in satirizing macho pride and an in-the-bones understanding of male menace."

- Laura Collins-Hughes, The New York Times