Sideshow sure knows how to f*^% up Dante.
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Walt McGough
Sideshow Theatre Company
Official website
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| Friday | 8 p.m. (no show 7/4) |
| Saturday | 8 p.m. |
| Sunday | 3 p.m. |
| Thursday | 8 p.m. |
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Welcome to summer debutante season! It's a magical time of year, when established troupes go on vacation, and all the fresh-faced virgin theatre companies emerge, hoping to catch the eyes of bored critics and be declared the "next big thing." One of the season's first contenders, Sideshow Theatre Company, has made a striking entrance with Walt McGough's new, one-man comedy, loosely based on Dante's Inferno. Matt Fletcher plays the titular author, lost in the ugly bureaucracy of Hell, and looking for his beloved. Critics were charmed by Fletcher's many-tongued, yet sympathetic performance, and by the comic poignancy of McGough's script. It may not be the next big thing, but it's what we most want in a summer deb: something new.
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