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Review Excerpts

“‘APT’S ROMEO AND JULIET GAINS POWER’…Any production of the play, must center, of course, on the ‘two star-crossed lovers.’ And one can only give raves to Randall Duk Kim (Romeo) and Arleigh Richards (Juliet). Kim’s performance is all the more astounding because the part is usually given to a young man who can be both adolescent fool and ambitious lover. Kim, close to middle age, has the gawky gestures of adolescence and lets boyishness show through at times. But he nonetheless lacks a certain charged but innocent sensuality that young men often bring to the part. And his rich voice sounds too confident, too mature, to project first love. Yet those two points are more than compensated by the wisdom and power he brings to part. His pacing is flawless, his delivery wonderful and his physicality breathtaking. He has made his part, in short, the fulcrum to balance the two extremes of the play.”
                —Jacob Stockinger, THE CAPITAL TIMES (8/29/1983)

“‘APT STAGES ‘ROMEO AND JULIET’’…The fact that Kim is older than most actors cast as Romeo, has no effect.”
               —Genie Campbell, WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL (8/29/1983)