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Reviews:
Baptism By Fire:
Daily News Drama Critic by Howard Kissel
DRAMATIC CHANGE AT NEW THEATERS. One of the most amazing things about New York today is the proliferation of new theaters—even though most of them adhere to the bare-walls esthetic, as if lack of ornament is a sign of seriousness.
A delightful exception is the elegant new theater Micheal Imperioli (of “The Sopranos”) has built ...
It’s current offering is John Dapolito’s “Baptism by Fire,” a surprisingly gripping play about a tough, quirky father and his emotionally overwrought son... read more
Killer Midgets:
NYTheatre.comReview by Martin Denton
You don't expect a play called Killer Midgets to be good, let alone profound; but this one, written and directed by a strikingly talented fellow named John Dapolito, is both. Dapolito takes on no less a question than the secret of life itself, and comes up with some surprisingly convincing answers. Along the way, his bizarrely absurdist tragicomedy considers a number of other lesser philosophical issues, with commanding and startling insight...Killer Midgets is a rich, engaging script, and it's been smartly directed by the author... read more
Broadway.com Review by Gregory Young
In the ludicrously funny Killer Midgets...John Dapolito, both the writer and director of this warped production, has created a uniquely disturbed world leveled by richly abnormal comedy...bound to keep any audience from becoming lethargic. There's no real reason why Steinberg (a veteran from that classic `80s fantasy film Willow) continually shouting "Shut the fuck up!" is so damn funny, but there it is...Killer Midgets will keep you laughing... read more
Backstage Review by Leonard Jacobs
There are real midgets populating John Dapolito's delightfully goony "Killer Midgets."...Directed by Dapolito with an ironic touch, the play's outer lunacy belies a subtle point: It's the American psyche that's small, not those "vertically challenged."...Dapolito uses squalor and Rich's fearsome hysterics to advance well articulated philosophies and observations about the world...[The] second act...tops the first with a far clearer emotional core... read more
Augie's Ring & An Act of Kindness:
Los Angeles Theater Reviews, by Michael Green
These extraordinary one acts from writer/director John Dapolito aren't steak tartare, they're the cow fresh from the abattoir served on your plate with a spike through its head -- two raw first encounters between a man and a woman that make Balm in Gilead seem like an upbeat musical. Augie's Ring is Marty as an adult battered child -- a controlled alcoholic barkeep (Rick Colella) one glance away from loosing homicidal rage as a stopgap against unbearable grief and pain...Taut writing, tough direction, and brilliant diamond-hard viscerally honest performances resonate with the primitive set to create a primordial vortex so regrettably rarely found elsewhere... read more
Backstage West Review by Madeleine Shaner
Two one-acts, written and directed by John Dapolito...make quite an impression... major work crying out for significant recognition. This fledgling N.Y. transplant should grow well where it's newly planted... read more
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