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Adam Rapp's "Nocturne"directed by Juan Souki at Luna Stage

The strong-jawed Henzler [...] recounts the tale with great emotion, imbuing it with inconsolable sorrow. [...] Near play's end, Henzler gets a chance to smile with unrestrained glee. The effect, after 100 minutes of seeing pain in his face, is both shocking and welcome.

- Star-Ledger Staff, by Peter Filichia, 11/27/2006

Oliver Henzler shows us the young man's nervous insecurity, projecting the awkwardness and vulnerability of someone whose wings have been shattered.

- Talkin' Broadway Regional news & reviews, Bob Randell, 11/29/06

Henzler effectively conveys the vulnerability of the young man haunted by an horrible act; his psychic pain is evident in his eyes and nervous body language.

- Recorder Newspapers, by Ruth Ross, November 2006

The actors' performances are energetic, focused and entertaining - these four are very talented people.

- The Montclair Times, Thom Molyneaux, 11/22/06

An evening with Dacia Maraini at the Martin E. Segal Theater Center at the CUNY graduate center

Oliver Henzler and Shawn Elliott who gave both a convincing portrait of "l’uomo giusto," Leopoldo Notarbartolo, and the shady Palizzolo, at the opposite poles of law and justice within a circle of corrupt hospital employees.

- US Italia Weekly, reviewed by Maria Luise Caputo-Mayr, 5/14/06

The works were brilliantly interpreted by Monica West, Kathy Lee Hart, Silvia Giampaola, Judith Malina, Oliver Henzler, Hanon Reznikov, Raymond McAnally, and Sam Tsoutsouvas.

- Oggi 7, magazine of American Oggi, reviewed by Gina Di Meo, 5/7/06

Turtle Back Theater's "Rashomon" inspired by Kurosawa at St Verronica's Church

The murdered husband (Oliver Henzler) describes the events through a medium . . . Henzler's husband is a model of nobility.

- Backstage, reviewed by Andy Propst, 4/23/04

American Repertory Theatre's "Pericles" by Shakespeare

Robert Sella, who plays the lead in ''Pericles,'' will miss three performances because of a death in the family. His understudy, Oliver Henzler, who plays Lysimachus, will take over. Sella returns Wednesday.

- Boston Globe, by Catherine Foster, Globe Staff, 5/30/03

Oliver Henzler got to go on as Pericles for three performances of American Repertory Theatre's production of Shakespeare's Pericles directed by Andrei Serban

- Columbia University School of the Arts NEWS

Andrei Serban's "Peer Gynt" by Ibsen at the Theater of the Riverside Church

Several of the actors evince talent and a few make spirited turns: Lucy Kendrick Smith as mother Aase, Rick Gifford as the troll king, Oliver Henzler as an asylum director.

- Time Out New York, reviewed by Alexis Soloski
Oliver Henzler was slyly hilarious as the German superintendent of a lunatic asylum, a part he played half as Ilse Koch and half as Dieter from SNL's "Sprockets."
Peer’s [played by Oliver Henzler] reflection on his own life as he peels an onion, looking metaphorically for his own core of self, is another enthralling sequence.

- Backstage, reviewed by Ron Cohen; 11/8/2002

"No Exit" by Jean-Paul Sartre at the Horace Mann Theater, NYC

Third-year acting student Oliver Henzler will direct his first play, Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit."

- Columbia News, by Kristin Sterling

"Pvt. Wars" by James McLure at the Bittertruth Theater in Los Angeles


Henzler gives Natwick, who pads around the hospital in satin pajamas, an elegant robe and slippers, the proper air of snobbishness.

- Daily Sundial; contributing writer: Julie M. Drake

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