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- Joe Lusk
Hackett’s light-hearted take on history’s most famous love tale elicits all the warmth, laughter, tomfoolery (and filth) from the Elizabethan script to create an endearingly jocular performance.
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- Stephanie Glickman
It’s not often that boutique beer and oysters come with the price of a ticket to a dance show. But within the realm of the Next Wave Festival, whose motto is No Risk Too Great, art practice is put into unusual contexts.
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- Liza Dezfouli
Here’s a good thing – a play with important messages, exploring contemporary themes that makes a withering critique of undesirable values – all without bashing audiences over the head with worthiness or heavily slanted moralizing.
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