A Few Good Quotes from Reviews of this Past Summer's Shows

On my part in The Annex Theater's production of Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy from this past May (2014):

My favorite was Ishai Barnoy’s Luan Ping, a rolling-eyed little wuss who is the bandit’s whipping boy and who is the first to turn on everyone.  I liked Barnoy in this Spring’s 4 By Chekov at Fells Point Corner.  I liked him again here where, among a determined and committed yet slightly unpolished cast, he shines and actually seems just a little like a ringer.

-- Achilles Feels, The Bad Oracle (http://thebadoracle.com/2014/05/17/taking-tiger-mountain-by-strategy-some-chinese-fake-out/)

Here's another reasonably straightforward bit of praise for my part in Tiger Mountain:

The primary evil target is the Vulture, played with appropriate charisma by Maria Radulescu. Vulture holds court of a band of doomed and drunken party animals and ultimately falls pray to Yang’s scheme. Principal among them is the running dog double-crosser Luan Ping, played with brilliant and cartoonish glee by Annex’s Ishai Barnoy. Ping escapes from imprisonment by the PLA and nearly blows Yang’s cover, but Vulture herself is so repulsed by Ping’s whining cowardice that she refuses to trust him.

-- John Barry, Bmore Art (http://bmoreart.com/2014/06/ideology-spectacle-and-singing.html)

And see if you can spot the few words about me (and my outrageously misspelled name) from this section of a review of the same show:

The plot follows Yang (Sarah Jacklin), an officer of Mao’s People’s Liberation Army (simply called “PLA” in the show) who is ordered by his unnamed commanding officer (Jonathan Jacobs who thankfully only has one song) to infiltrate the bandit compound on Tiger Mountain run by the vicious Vulture (a scenery chewing Maria Radulescu) with the reluctant help of Luan Ping (Ishai Branday, capable of better than we see here, but he’s one of few actors who seems to be enjoying himself out onstage) and lead by an earnest villager (whose name I’ve already forgotten, sorry) out on a generic “Vulture killed my parents” quest all leading up to a bloated fight scene.

-- jtwiggar, Aisle Pass (http://aislepass.wordpress.com/2014/05/20/theatre-review-taking-tiger-mountain/)

Finally, here's the one line from the one place I was mentioned with some level of critical praise for my tiny role in The Mobtown Players' production of The Spanish Tragedy from this past July (again, 2014):

Ishai Barnoy is always a gift to watch, his weird take on the Duke of Castile (what’s with the hand?) is fun and kind of witty. 

-- Achilles Feels, The Bad Oracle (http://thebadoracle.com/2014/07/25/the-spanish-tragedy-drink-the-haterade/)

And that's pretty much it. I wasn't mentioned at all for Game Show, and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover has yet to start next week at Canteen. So I guess we'll see what else people think of my acting, as it develops from part to part.