What the Critics Are Saying A
Torrent of Talent!
FLORIDA TODAY
Excerpts from the review by Pam Harbaugh
The Festival
unleashes a torrent of talent in its superb production... this nimble
Tartuffe is arguably one of the company's best productions. And
don't think it's easy. It only looks that way in the capable hands of
this company... The stage is awash with haughty, overblown caricatures,
rococo visuals, expansive movement and so much humor and slapstick
silliness that you will laugh throughout... hysterical... The Orlando-UCF
Shakespeare Festival has mounted a wonderful production, well worth a
journey to Orlando. You won't see anything funnier than "Tartuffe." That
is, if you can get a ticket.
Pictured: Mindy Anders, Sarah Hankins  Stunning
... Excellent... Wonderful....
The Orlando Weekly
Excerpts from the review by Al Krulick
Excellent choices... a brilliant and intelligent ferocity throughout
three hours of intense theatricality... stunning ...eerie and
frightening... a superlative cast... excellent... wonderful...
overwhelming in its raw emotion and furious display... It all adds up to
tragic acting at its finest -- compelling to watch even as it is
difficult to sit through.
Pictured:
Hamlet (Christopher Patrick Mullen) and the Players (Richard Width and
David Hardie)  Magnificent...
Tremendous... Delightful... Intense
TalkinBroadway.com
Excerpts from the review by
Matthew MacDermid
The Orlando-UCF Shakespeare
Festival proves just how accessible Shakespeare can be in a visually
stunning and verbally engrossing production... this Antony and
Cleopatra is a galvanizing theatrical event that shouldn't be missed
by anyone... magnificent... tremendous... delightful... intense...
gorgeous... this production is perfection...
Pictured: Chantal Jean-Pierre  Such
a feast... Opulent...Elegant... Splendid... Sensual... Gorgeous
The Orlando Sentinel
Excerpts from the review by Elizabeth Maupin
...The summer night must be smiling a fourth time this season, at the
people at the Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival, who have known enough to
make their production of A Little Night Music the glorious event
it is... gifted... such a feast... opulent...elegant...
splendid... sensual... gorgeous... a delight.... There's a lesson to be
learned -- from Bergman's characters, from Wheeler and Sondheim's
sumptuous musical, and from the Shakespeare Festival itself, which has
seized on this opportunity and played it for all it's worth.
Pictured: Kate Ingram and Warren Kelly This is what great
theater is all about!
TheOtherOrlando.Com
Excerpts from the review by Kelly MonaghanThis
is what great theater is all about! To entertain, yes (and this show
certainly delivers on that score), but truly great theater transforms
us. We leave the theater a little different, a little wiser, a little
more human... an experience that will assure you that the arts are alive
and well in O-Town and doing what the arts do best...God bless the
Orlando Shakespeare Festival for this magnificent present to the
community.  Brilliant
and Piercing Production
INK 19 Magazine
Excerpts from the review by Carl F. Gauze
Experiencing the brilliant and piercing production we saw this evening,
you'll agree "Winter's Tale" should cross the stage more often. There's
a lot going for this production... convincing... strong performances...
technically perfect... intimate... brings the action nearly into the
laps of the audience. You may not see this play again for years...
Squeeze it in to your holiday schedule before spring reappears to melt
the snows of icy Bohemia.
(Pictured: Suzanne O'Donnell) For More Reviews
Reviews of all of our shows are posted on this website. To look at
this season's reviews, go to Box Office and click
on the show. To see reviews and pictures of all of our shows since our
inaugural season in 1989, go to Past Seasons and
click on the show of your choice.
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