2026 Audience Reviews

Company: Little Apple Theatre Company
Show: The Importance of Being Eternal
Venue: Open Eye Theatre

Absolutely Fantastic

I had an AMAZING time watching this. The writing did a wonderful job abridging Wilde's work which still keeping the story and characters very coherent, and incorporating tons of vampire humor. The jokes range from shallow references to deeper cuts, and were all very well executed. The performers were all on exactly the same page and really giving it their all-- there was some fantastic physical comedy done really, really well. My friends and I enjoyed ourselves immensely. Would HIGHLY recommend.

Company: Jeffries & Brown
Show: Braingystics: Seize the Mind!
Venue: Open Eye Theatre

A fun time!

Very well put together show with a great performance energy. Peyton and Jared play off each other really well and comedy builds off itself in a great way. I had fun going up onstage at one point.

Company: Big Blue Theatre
Show: A Dark Gotham Knight's Dream
Venue: Theatre in the Round

Poor understanding of Shakespeare

The positives: Very well choreographed fights with good stacking (hard to do when performing in the round!), the actors seemed to be having fun, and some of the costumes were neat. I liked the actor playing Mr. Freeze, and the energy in the Riddler's performance. The negatives: The writing team seemed to lack any real comfort or familiarity with Shakespearean language, most notably how "-th" is used to conjugate verbs. Very few of the lines were in verse (to my ear just the final monologue), and of the rest they frequently misused words in their attempts to sound Elizabethan, and did not successfully imitate Shakespeare's writing in any way. I went with some friends who are Batman fans and they were similarly lukewarm on the show. If you know nothing about Shakespeare and want to watch a bunch of people run around being wacky, you'll probably have fun, but if you're at all familiar A Midsummer Night's Dream or with Shakespeare generally this is one to skip.