Julia Klavans and Jacob Yeh as puppeteers do a great job bringing the numerous and various puppets to life….

Maryland Theatre Guide

 The “adult” cast, who also are the puppeteers, are played with gusto by Julia Klavans, Jacob Yeh, and Elan Zafir. As their characters they each bring a certain charm to their adult counterparts, but their true mastery is in their puppeteering, and giving these animals personalities.

Broadway World

The cast does a fantastic job creating and maintaining the level of intensity required for this show to work. With the tremendous amount of effects, imagination and commitment are needed from the audience in order to make the show believable, and the entire cast and crew draws the audience in flawlessly and never loses their focus.

DC Theater Arts

Why not just read the book or see the movie? One word: realism. Kids lucky enough to have grownups take them to Adventure Theatre/MTC will get to see crazy chattering monkeys up close and personal, a ginormous snake pop out of a closet, and (spoiler alert) really-truly rain from a monsoon, windy wind and bubbles of snow falling gently on their heads. Nope, you just don’t get that kind of in-your-face, cover-your-head-with-your-program stuff from a movie, folks. It’s immersive theatre with a great sense of humor attached.

DC Theatre Scene