The Promenade Playhouse production works so well largely thanks to modern pop culture references being worked into the script – there are several great jokes at the expense of the Kardashian sisters – but mainly due to zippy direction by award winning Sarah Gurfield, whose Broadway experience shines through at this Santa Monica Rep production.

Huge praise also to the quick witted, versatile trio of performers, Eric Bloom, Mike Niedzwiecki and, especially, Lucas Kwan Peterson whose comic timing and stage presence are just perfect.

Don’t think you have to be a Shakespeare expert to enjoy this show as anyone with even a passing interest in the Bard of Avon will be hugely entertained. To paraphrase Hamlet, it’s “a very palpable hit.”

*The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) presented by Santa Monica Repertory Theater
The Promenade Playhouse, 1404 Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, CA 90401
Opened June 7. Runs through June 30, show times Fri at 8, Sat and Sun at 7
Admission $25. Students and seniors $15.
Phone: 213-268-1454

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