... When we first walk into the theatre, we are greeted by Tijana Bjelajac's awe-inspiring set--the Kit Kat Club--that is anything but "seedy." Here, as the Emcee reminds us, "life is beautiful." It's immediately intimidating, a glitzy art deco dreamland (or nightmareland, if you will), something out of a Fritz Lang silent film. This is the most glamorous CABARET set I have encountered; it fits in perfectly with the Asolo's ornate interiors. (You would never mistake it for a roller-disco in Xanadu.) When someone refers to it as "the hottest spot in Berlin," you believe it. Hell never seemed more alluring. A jacket hovers overhead in a celestial beam of light--a light beating down on Berlin's very own Hades. You see the nightclub personnel throughout the show, hanging out in the background, to the side of the stage. The Cabaret in CABARET never leaves...
By: Peter Nason, BroadwayWorld
... From a technical standpoint this production of Cabaret is unmatched. From its unique Scenic Design by Tijana Bjelajac that completely encompassed 1930's Germany...
By: Drew Eberhard, BroadwayWorld
... the disconcerting storyline is played out on an art deco-fronted stage, which uses a second story, a textured back wall, and depth to its advantage. Scenic designer Tijana Bjelajac has some neat tricks up her sleeve, including a midstage curtain for which the audience is able to see both front and back and some disconcerting effects that serve as a stirring reminder of the loss to come...
By Cassiopeia Guthrie, San Diego Story
... Rhodes maintains a strong directorial pace through the evening, and the clever scenic design by Tijana Bjelajac is a delight...
By Brad Auerbach, Entertainment Today
... The sets by Tijana Bjelajac are appropriately spooky, varied and beautiful...
By Patrick White, Nippertown
... Tijana Bjelajac’s set also evokes the melodramatic eeriness of the era. Her puppetry is also a delight..
By Ryan Leeds, MetroWeekly
... Andrew Keenan-Bolger is absolutely sidesplitting in his main role as the nerdy British real-estate agent Harker (as he is in all his different parts and his working of Tijana Bjelajac’s amusing and scary puppets of bats and subsidiary characters)...
By: Deb Miller, DC Theater Arts