Big Love

'Big' on laughs, bigger on message –
OC Register, by Eric Marchese
«Irina Kruzhilina costumes the sisters in outrageously designed wedding gowns, while the three grooms wear tuxes with outsized shoulders, tails, cuffs and bow ties, in a black-and-white scheme emphasizing the script's concept of polarity»

Big fat Greek wedding meets runaway bride – Northern Lights, by Anne-Margret Bellavoine
«Nothing is ever clearly one or the other, the black and white extremes emphasized by Irina Kruzhilina' stunning costuming with its King Ubu-like grotesque geometrical designs.»

Big Love – Back Stage West, by Eric Marchese
«Director Jocelyn A. Brown’s staging is lively and brimming with energy. Its black-and-white color scheme for costumes (Irina Kruzhilina) and set underscores the theme of polarity»
Sideways Stories from Westside School

School Daze – OffOffOnline, by Lauren Snyder
«Irina Kruzhilina's costumes combine swatches of brightly patterned material to create an entirely new sartorial language. Her pieces are a mash-up of rural Sunday best, bolts found in the sale bin at a fabric store, and Seussian architecture. It's a credit to Kruzhilina's talents that one can see a pattern (ha-ha) in her designs, when the characters could have been less creatively dressed in old clothes that had a few sequins here or an extra leg sewn on there.»