THE DIRTY TALK
"With Broadway and Theater Row and the Villages beckoning, sometimes New York theatergoers need to remind themselves: it's not the location, it's the writing and the acting. West 21st Street may not be a theater hot spot , but "The Dirty Talk," a delicious two hander playing at Center Stage, is as rewarding a trip off the beaten path as you'll make...Kevin Cristaldi and Sydney Williams are just GREAT... it takes awhile to realize what AN EXCEPTIONAL PERFORMANCE HIS SIDEKICK, KEVIN CRISTALDI, IS GIVING AS LINO, a milquetoasty man who has found in the Internet a way to escape his own limitations.... the two actors are in perfect sync."
Neil Genzlinger, THE NEW YORK TIMES, Critics Pick
"... given CRISTALDI'S SOLID AND COMMITTED PERFORMANCE, The Dirty Talk is a true pleasure."
American Theater
"... NATURAL CHEMISTRY AND UNDENIABLE TALENT... rarely do we come across such a unique and touching character study."
Show Business
"WILLIAMS AND CRISTALDI ARE PUT THROUGH THEIR PACES WITH THE PRECISION OF THE GREATEST THEATRICAL COMIC DUOS (think the Lunts, or, if you're too young to remember them, think Lane and Broderick at their best)."
NYTheatre.com
"FIRST-RATE PERFORMANCES... Cristaldi and Williams tackle their characters with full force, rendering them as fully-formed and sympathetic human beings. Both are highly skilled physical actors as well... truly hilarious."
Theatermania.com
"it's CRISTALDI'S PORTRAYAL OF A PERVERT WITH A HEART THAT'S TRULY RIVETING... He's clearly damaged but still exudes an air of 'I am what I am' defiance."
Chelsea Now
"... A DYNAMITE PERFORMANCE... Thanks to the incredible investment and playfulness with which this group of artists approaches their work, I was left with a racing mind and an open heart. Don't let this little show pass you by."
Curtain Up
A PEREGRINE FALLS
"As Uncle Taylor and the Narrator, KEVIN CRISTALDI DISARMS US WITH HIS SMILE-LOADED CHARISMA, providing contextual details and foreshadowing. "
Broadway World
"Director Padraic Lillis guides a STELLAR cast... In a crafty twist in the function of a narrator, here we have actor Kevin Cristaldi greet us in CHARMING fashion. Because the character is so directly open to us, the grievous damage done is all the more unsettling, as if we were also charmed into ignorance, and in the end, somehow complicit."
Riverdale Press
"A RICHLY DARK and rending drama... has the punishing force of a knife twisting in flesh... the COMMITTED PERFORMANCES are what carry this Loading Dock production's emotional weight."
The New Yorker
THE DUMB WAITER
"CRISTALDI, QUITE HONESTLY, HAD ME ENRAPTURED, even when what he babbled on about made little sense. HE DEFTLY PORTRAYS a man who doesn't understand the world around him, and the audience can palpably feel how lost he is. That's the ultimate theatre experience: to get lost in the sound of words."
NJ Arts
CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS
"Cristaldi does OUTSTANDING WORK as the drunken patriarch Weston"swing. "
NJ Arts
"The play soars into its own orbit. Weston, the father, is played with a fierce commitment to language by Kevin Cristaldi... Licato has gotten the talented cast all onto the same page. They feel the rhythms of Shepard's language... All the actors are TERRIFIC."
Open Box Arts
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
"... a memorable and inspiring evening of theatre... What is especially rewarding about this production is that it's hard to find a weak link in the cast. All of us, no matter how experienced we are at watching theater, have a sense of a cast's strengths. And of its weaknesses. Not here. Every actor on the stage, right down to the spectators in the courtroom, is credible. Even after years of seeing this show on screens or in books, it's hard now to imagine that these characters could possibly look different than the ones who are on the Playhouse's stage... It's IMPOSSIBLE TO GIVE EACH OF THESE ACTORS THE PRAISE THEY ARE DUE."
Cincinnati Enquirer
"It's played out on an all-but-bare stage—no scenery, minimal props—just great storytelling acting... KEVIN CRISTALDI IS MAYELLA'S BIGOTED IGNORANT FATHER. THE PRODUCTION OVERFLOWS WITH VIVID VIGNETTES OF CHARACTER ACTING within the context of ensemble performance... the Playhouse clearly has a winner with this production."
City Beat (Cincinnati)
"Director Eric Ting creates a performance that is dramatic, driven, and emotionally charged, capturing the true spirit of the times... KEVIN CRISTALDI AS BOB EWELL, THE MEAN-SPIRITED DRUNK AND FATHER, IS SO GOOD IN THE ROLE YOU CAN FEEL THE EVIL SPEWING OUT OF HIM."
AXS Entertainment (Cincinnati)
FREUD’S LAST SESSION
"An excellent production…The younger man’s skittish nerves find expression in MR. CRISTALDI'S SUBTLE, APT PERFORMANCE."
Sylviane Gold, THE NEW YORK TIMES
UNCLE VANYA, Scenes from a Jersey Life
"Scholars always focus on Chekov's gloomier side, but Uncle Vanya was meant to be a comedy, and this EXCELLENT cast keeps the laughs coming. KEVIN CRISTALDI, AS VANYA, STRIKES THE PERFECT BALANCE between venomous bitterness and crippling self-pity... The entire cast provides RIVETING performances."
NJ Arts
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
"WARM-BLOODED, FROLICSOME AND SPLENDIDLY CAST, this production at the 47th Street Theater leads with its heart... It has the same comfortable immediacy as Joss Whedon's extraordinary 2013 film version of "Much Ado About Nothing." It's characters open their mouths, and the 400-year-old language sounds as natural as our own."
Laura Collins-Hughes, THE NEW YORK TIMES, Critics Pick
"A delight... a first-rate Shakespeare production... GREAT ACTORS with a strong command of the language... THE MECHANICS ARE A HOOT... Kevin CRISTALDI AS THE HILARIOUSLY DOPEY SNUG."
Theater Pizzazz
"The mechanicals travers adroitly the razor-thin line between portraying hammy amateurs and capitulating to overwrought slapstick and excess mugging. Their theatrical instincts, reinforced by Woodard's direction, are IMPECCABLE in this regard."
Curtain-Up
(A) LOFT MODULATION
"Cristaldi matches Sosko's IMPASSIONED, driven nature... His character's passion and drive to be consumed by something, RESONATES STRONGLY. As someone driven by a a passion for theater and writing after decades within the business world, I related to his desire to be immersed and energized by something non-linear and personally mesmerizing."
Theater Mania
MACBETH
"Kevin Cristaldi and Daniela Mastropietro as Macbeth and his Lady EMBRACE THE COMPLEXITY, offering up NUANCED SHAKESPEAREAN PERFORMANCES while still channeling a more modern vision of their roles... Cristaldi's Macbeth whispers rather than bellows (THINK PACINO'S TURN as the corporatized mobster in the second Godfather); HIS WEAPON IS LESS A BLUDGEON AND MORE A SCALPEL. His existential exhaustion come Act V is a refreshing and right choice."
The Modernist
WHEN I COME TO DIE
"The production offers a fine cast doing splendid work... CRISTALDI DELIVERS A NICELY REALIZED PERFORMANCE AS FATHER ADRIAN... Cristaldi and Mitchell meet a greater challenge. Their roles are less showy but crucial for the drama to work. "
The Kansas City Star
"MASTERFULLY PLAYED WITH A FLAIR FOR MAKING GRIM SITUATIONS SEEM PALPABLE, KEVIN CRISTALDI BRINGS THE HEART TO THE PLAY. By being a listener and gently urging Damon on to finding the depth of his spirit and convictions, CRISTALDI IS SPLENDID.
Kansas City Examiner
THE GOD OF ISAAC
"The cast, under the direction of Kate Alexander, works with the right balance of comedy and seriousness."
Sarasota Magazine
"Kevin CRISTALDI SHOWS OFF A FINE RANGE as several of the movie characters... from "Huckleberry Finn" to "On the Waterfront", "The Grapes of Wrath", "My Fair Lady" and "The Wizard of Oz."
Sarasota Herald Tribune
LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS
"The lighthearted new production of the comedy, in the theater’s newly renovated space, brings back those days (the 1960s) with a clear eye and a warm heart…IT'S A TRIBUTE TO MR. CRISTALDI'S TEXTURED PERFORMANCE that we are never completely sure whether Barney really wants to get to know Elaine better or is just terrified of getting physical."
Anita Gates, THE NEW YORK TIMES
"The play continues to tickle the funny bone mightily… CRISTALDI IS A NATURAL for the self-effacing Barney. His portrayal of Neil Simon’s nervous adventurer was in complete contrast to his role as Trevor Fabricant in “Ten Unknowns” at The Schoolhouse Theater, itself a measure of his acting ability."
NewsTimes (CT)
A DISH FOR THE GODS
"Kevin CRISTALDI GIVES A FABULOUS performance"
The Newark Examiner
"And it's the actors who transform what could have been a static talk-fest into a human portrayal of two people's careers, their shifting relationship, and the final outcomes... KEVIN CRISTALDI IS RIGHT UP THERE WITH HER, BELIEVABLY RUGGED AND COMPLEX as her college writing teacher and eventual lover."
Theater Pizzaz
EDDIE LEGS
BEST SUPPORTING MALE PERFORMANCE in a Play - nomination
LA Weekly - Year End Awards
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR in a Play, runner-up
Entertainment Today - Year End Awards
TEN UNKNOWNS
"… a DREAM CAST of performers… One HIGHLIGHT OF THE SHOW is when Cristaldi (who bears a striking resemblance to Malcolm McDowell of “A Clockwork Orange” fame) and Berenholtz have at each other."
The NewsTimes (CT)
"As the effetely reptilian Trevor, Kevin CRISTALDI IS EXCELLENT."
The Journal News (Westchester)
"Cristaldi masters a South African accent nicely and gives a slightly unsettling performance as a man who has lost track of himself in the pursuit of success."
CurtainUp
NEXT FALL
"Kevin CRISTALDI GIVES AN EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE as Luke, sweet and secure in his knowledge that all of life’s bad stuff will be taken care of for him."
Talkin’ Broadway
"Kevin CRISTALDI, AS LUKE, IS FULL OF ENERGY, SWEETNESS AND SURPRISE. Luke has an explanation for all the contradictions Adam sees in his partner’s faith, but that religious base gives Luke a calmness that grows in Cristaldi’s performance."
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
THE STRIP
"... fusing performance art with sketch comedy — with RIOTOUSLY FUNNY results. Heaven only knows where all this is headed, but the journey should be fun."
LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Dropping by on Saturday nights could become habit forming... gut-busting... MURDEROUSLY FUNNY."
LA Weekly
"ONE OF MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS from last year's long Strip run — KEVIN CRISTALDI'S PLUG-DUMB PORN STAR Rail Splitter."
Rob Kendt, The Wicked Stage
CRINGE
"... the blows connect with devastating force, thanks to SUPERB ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCES."
LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Kevin CRISTALDI IS PERFECTLY NERDY AND NEEDY as his best friend... an EXCEPTIONAL, one-of-a-kind ensemble."
Entertainment Today
"...a killer cast... there's STRONG WORK FROM KEVIN CRISTALDI..."
Backstage
THE LAST STATION
"able performances... The Last Station is performed with considerable skill...Bulgakov is the play's most sympathetic and understandable character, partly because Kevin CRISTALDI PLAYS HIM SO AFFECTIONATELY."
DAILY VARIETY
"Of the balance of a six-person cast, Kevin CRISTALDI IS ESPECIALLY GOOD."
The Burlington Free Press
HAMLET
"Cristaldi makes clear what is going on in the tormented Prince's head... THIS HAMLET WILL CONVEY MORE THAN THE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY can at its best."
The Philadelphia Inquirer
"The Hamlet of Kevin Cristaldi is earnest and believable, and the interpretation right on-line."
Philadelphia Daily News
"Kevin CRISTALDI IS SKILLED AND ENGAGING in the role."
The News Journal (Philadelphia)
"Prince Hamlet is SUPERBLY PLAYED BY KEVIN CRISTALDI...As vividly portrayed by Cristaldi, Hamlet is a fiery and impulsive individual."
The Evening Phoenix (Philadelphia)
THE MISER
"Lamos has devised excellent business for Kevin Cristaldi as the hapless detective..."
NY Daily News
"The acting is EXPERT."
NY Post
MESSAGE TO MICHAEL
"...a hugely likable cast...KEVIN CRISTALDI AS HIS BLANK-BRAINED BAR BOY, IS EXCELLENT."
Michael Feingold, Village Voice
"The cast is extremely good... ESPECIALLY STRONG are David Beach as Michael... and KEVIN CRISTALDI AS RON, A MORONIC BAR-BACK who keeps bumping into Michael at open call auditions."
James Oseland, Time Out NY
CRIMINALS IN LOVE
"KEVIN CRISTALDI IS QUITE ENGAGING as the man up against the odds of destiny in a messed-up world."
Clive Barnes, NY Post
"With Broadway and Theater Row and the Villages beckoning, sometimes New York theatergoers need to remind themselves: it's not the location, it's the writing and the acting. West 21st Street may not be a theater hot spot , but "The Dirty Talk," a delicious two hander playing at Center Stage, is as rewarding a trip off the beaten path as you'll make...Kevin Cristaldi and Sydney Williams are just GREAT... it takes awhile to realize what AN EXCEPTIONAL PERFORMANCE HIS SIDEKICK, KEVIN CRISTALDI, IS GIVING AS LINO, a milquetoasty man who has found in the Internet a way to escape his own limitations.... the two actors are in perfect sync."
Neil Genzlinger, THE NEW YORK TIMES, Critics Pick
"... given CRISTALDI'S SOLID AND COMMITTED PERFORMANCE, The Dirty Talk is a true pleasure."
American Theater
"... NATURAL CHEMISTRY AND UNDENIABLE TALENT... rarely do we come across such a unique and touching character study."
Show Business
"WILLIAMS AND CRISTALDI ARE PUT THROUGH THEIR PACES WITH THE PRECISION OF THE GREATEST THEATRICAL COMIC DUOS (think the Lunts, or, if you're too young to remember them, think Lane and Broderick at their best)."
NYTheatre.com
"FIRST-RATE PERFORMANCES... Cristaldi and Williams tackle their characters with full force, rendering them as fully-formed and sympathetic human beings. Both are highly skilled physical actors as well... truly hilarious."
Theatermania.com
"it's CRISTALDI'S PORTRAYAL OF A PERVERT WITH A HEART THAT'S TRULY RIVETING... He's clearly damaged but still exudes an air of 'I am what I am' defiance."
Chelsea Now
"... A DYNAMITE PERFORMANCE... Thanks to the incredible investment and playfulness with which this group of artists approaches their work, I was left with a racing mind and an open heart. Don't let this little show pass you by."
Curtain Up
A PEREGRINE FALLS
"As Uncle Taylor and the Narrator, KEVIN CRISTALDI DISARMS US WITH HIS SMILE-LOADED CHARISMA, providing contextual details and foreshadowing. "
Broadway World
"Director Padraic Lillis guides a STELLAR cast... In a crafty twist in the function of a narrator, here we have actor Kevin Cristaldi greet us in CHARMING fashion. Because the character is so directly open to us, the grievous damage done is all the more unsettling, as if we were also charmed into ignorance, and in the end, somehow complicit."
Riverdale Press
"A RICHLY DARK and rending drama... has the punishing force of a knife twisting in flesh... the COMMITTED PERFORMANCES are what carry this Loading Dock production's emotional weight."
The New Yorker
THE DUMB WAITER
"CRISTALDI, QUITE HONESTLY, HAD ME ENRAPTURED, even when what he babbled on about made little sense. HE DEFTLY PORTRAYS a man who doesn't understand the world around him, and the audience can palpably feel how lost he is. That's the ultimate theatre experience: to get lost in the sound of words."
NJ Arts
CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS
"Cristaldi does OUTSTANDING WORK as the drunken patriarch Weston"swing. "
NJ Arts
"The play soars into its own orbit. Weston, the father, is played with a fierce commitment to language by Kevin Cristaldi... Licato has gotten the talented cast all onto the same page. They feel the rhythms of Shepard's language... All the actors are TERRIFIC."
Open Box Arts
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
"... a memorable and inspiring evening of theatre... What is especially rewarding about this production is that it's hard to find a weak link in the cast. All of us, no matter how experienced we are at watching theater, have a sense of a cast's strengths. And of its weaknesses. Not here. Every actor on the stage, right down to the spectators in the courtroom, is credible. Even after years of seeing this show on screens or in books, it's hard now to imagine that these characters could possibly look different than the ones who are on the Playhouse's stage... It's IMPOSSIBLE TO GIVE EACH OF THESE ACTORS THE PRAISE THEY ARE DUE."
Cincinnati Enquirer
"It's played out on an all-but-bare stage—no scenery, minimal props—just great storytelling acting... KEVIN CRISTALDI IS MAYELLA'S BIGOTED IGNORANT FATHER. THE PRODUCTION OVERFLOWS WITH VIVID VIGNETTES OF CHARACTER ACTING within the context of ensemble performance... the Playhouse clearly has a winner with this production."
City Beat (Cincinnati)
"Director Eric Ting creates a performance that is dramatic, driven, and emotionally charged, capturing the true spirit of the times... KEVIN CRISTALDI AS BOB EWELL, THE MEAN-SPIRITED DRUNK AND FATHER, IS SO GOOD IN THE ROLE YOU CAN FEEL THE EVIL SPEWING OUT OF HIM."
AXS Entertainment (Cincinnati)
FREUD’S LAST SESSION
"An excellent production…The younger man’s skittish nerves find expression in MR. CRISTALDI'S SUBTLE, APT PERFORMANCE."
Sylviane Gold, THE NEW YORK TIMES
UNCLE VANYA, Scenes from a Jersey Life
"Scholars always focus on Chekov's gloomier side, but Uncle Vanya was meant to be a comedy, and this EXCELLENT cast keeps the laughs coming. KEVIN CRISTALDI, AS VANYA, STRIKES THE PERFECT BALANCE between venomous bitterness and crippling self-pity... The entire cast provides RIVETING performances."
NJ Arts
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
"WARM-BLOODED, FROLICSOME AND SPLENDIDLY CAST, this production at the 47th Street Theater leads with its heart... It has the same comfortable immediacy as Joss Whedon's extraordinary 2013 film version of "Much Ado About Nothing." It's characters open their mouths, and the 400-year-old language sounds as natural as our own."
Laura Collins-Hughes, THE NEW YORK TIMES, Critics Pick
"A delight... a first-rate Shakespeare production... GREAT ACTORS with a strong command of the language... THE MECHANICS ARE A HOOT... Kevin CRISTALDI AS THE HILARIOUSLY DOPEY SNUG."
Theater Pizzazz
"The mechanicals travers adroitly the razor-thin line between portraying hammy amateurs and capitulating to overwrought slapstick and excess mugging. Their theatrical instincts, reinforced by Woodard's direction, are IMPECCABLE in this regard."
Curtain-Up
(A) LOFT MODULATION
"Cristaldi matches Sosko's IMPASSIONED, driven nature... His character's passion and drive to be consumed by something, RESONATES STRONGLY. As someone driven by a a passion for theater and writing after decades within the business world, I related to his desire to be immersed and energized by something non-linear and personally mesmerizing."
Theater Mania
MACBETH
"Kevin Cristaldi and Daniela Mastropietro as Macbeth and his Lady EMBRACE THE COMPLEXITY, offering up NUANCED SHAKESPEAREAN PERFORMANCES while still channeling a more modern vision of their roles... Cristaldi's Macbeth whispers rather than bellows (THINK PACINO'S TURN as the corporatized mobster in the second Godfather); HIS WEAPON IS LESS A BLUDGEON AND MORE A SCALPEL. His existential exhaustion come Act V is a refreshing and right choice."
The Modernist
WHEN I COME TO DIE
"The production offers a fine cast doing splendid work... CRISTALDI DELIVERS A NICELY REALIZED PERFORMANCE AS FATHER ADRIAN... Cristaldi and Mitchell meet a greater challenge. Their roles are less showy but crucial for the drama to work. "
The Kansas City Star
"MASTERFULLY PLAYED WITH A FLAIR FOR MAKING GRIM SITUATIONS SEEM PALPABLE, KEVIN CRISTALDI BRINGS THE HEART TO THE PLAY. By being a listener and gently urging Damon on to finding the depth of his spirit and convictions, CRISTALDI IS SPLENDID.
Kansas City Examiner
THE GOD OF ISAAC
"The cast, under the direction of Kate Alexander, works with the right balance of comedy and seriousness."
Sarasota Magazine
"Kevin CRISTALDI SHOWS OFF A FINE RANGE as several of the movie characters... from "Huckleberry Finn" to "On the Waterfront", "The Grapes of Wrath", "My Fair Lady" and "The Wizard of Oz."
Sarasota Herald Tribune
LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS
"The lighthearted new production of the comedy, in the theater’s newly renovated space, brings back those days (the 1960s) with a clear eye and a warm heart…IT'S A TRIBUTE TO MR. CRISTALDI'S TEXTURED PERFORMANCE that we are never completely sure whether Barney really wants to get to know Elaine better or is just terrified of getting physical."
Anita Gates, THE NEW YORK TIMES
"The play continues to tickle the funny bone mightily… CRISTALDI IS A NATURAL for the self-effacing Barney. His portrayal of Neil Simon’s nervous adventurer was in complete contrast to his role as Trevor Fabricant in “Ten Unknowns” at The Schoolhouse Theater, itself a measure of his acting ability."
NewsTimes (CT)
A DISH FOR THE GODS
"Kevin CRISTALDI GIVES A FABULOUS performance"
The Newark Examiner
"And it's the actors who transform what could have been a static talk-fest into a human portrayal of two people's careers, their shifting relationship, and the final outcomes... KEVIN CRISTALDI IS RIGHT UP THERE WITH HER, BELIEVABLY RUGGED AND COMPLEX as her college writing teacher and eventual lover."
Theater Pizzaz
EDDIE LEGS
BEST SUPPORTING MALE PERFORMANCE in a Play - nomination
LA Weekly - Year End Awards
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR in a Play, runner-up
Entertainment Today - Year End Awards
TEN UNKNOWNS
"… a DREAM CAST of performers… One HIGHLIGHT OF THE SHOW is when Cristaldi (who bears a striking resemblance to Malcolm McDowell of “A Clockwork Orange” fame) and Berenholtz have at each other."
The NewsTimes (CT)
"As the effetely reptilian Trevor, Kevin CRISTALDI IS EXCELLENT."
The Journal News (Westchester)
"Cristaldi masters a South African accent nicely and gives a slightly unsettling performance as a man who has lost track of himself in the pursuit of success."
CurtainUp
NEXT FALL
"Kevin CRISTALDI GIVES AN EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE as Luke, sweet and secure in his knowledge that all of life’s bad stuff will be taken care of for him."
Talkin’ Broadway
"Kevin CRISTALDI, AS LUKE, IS FULL OF ENERGY, SWEETNESS AND SURPRISE. Luke has an explanation for all the contradictions Adam sees in his partner’s faith, but that religious base gives Luke a calmness that grows in Cristaldi’s performance."
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
THE STRIP
"... fusing performance art with sketch comedy — with RIOTOUSLY FUNNY results. Heaven only knows where all this is headed, but the journey should be fun."
LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Dropping by on Saturday nights could become habit forming... gut-busting... MURDEROUSLY FUNNY."
LA Weekly
"ONE OF MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS from last year's long Strip run — KEVIN CRISTALDI'S PLUG-DUMB PORN STAR Rail Splitter."
Rob Kendt, The Wicked Stage
CRINGE
"... the blows connect with devastating force, thanks to SUPERB ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCES."
LOS ANGELES TIMES
"Kevin CRISTALDI IS PERFECTLY NERDY AND NEEDY as his best friend... an EXCEPTIONAL, one-of-a-kind ensemble."
Entertainment Today
"...a killer cast... there's STRONG WORK FROM KEVIN CRISTALDI..."
Backstage
THE LAST STATION
"able performances... The Last Station is performed with considerable skill...Bulgakov is the play's most sympathetic and understandable character, partly because Kevin CRISTALDI PLAYS HIM SO AFFECTIONATELY."
DAILY VARIETY
"Of the balance of a six-person cast, Kevin CRISTALDI IS ESPECIALLY GOOD."
The Burlington Free Press
HAMLET
"Cristaldi makes clear what is going on in the tormented Prince's head... THIS HAMLET WILL CONVEY MORE THAN THE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY can at its best."
The Philadelphia Inquirer
"The Hamlet of Kevin Cristaldi is earnest and believable, and the interpretation right on-line."
Philadelphia Daily News
"Kevin CRISTALDI IS SKILLED AND ENGAGING in the role."
The News Journal (Philadelphia)
"Prince Hamlet is SUPERBLY PLAYED BY KEVIN CRISTALDI...As vividly portrayed by Cristaldi, Hamlet is a fiery and impulsive individual."
The Evening Phoenix (Philadelphia)
THE MISER
"Lamos has devised excellent business for Kevin Cristaldi as the hapless detective..."
NY Daily News
"The acting is EXPERT."
NY Post
MESSAGE TO MICHAEL
"...a hugely likable cast...KEVIN CRISTALDI AS HIS BLANK-BRAINED BAR BOY, IS EXCELLENT."
Michael Feingold, Village Voice
"The cast is extremely good... ESPECIALLY STRONG are David Beach as Michael... and KEVIN CRISTALDI AS RON, A MORONIC BAR-BACK who keeps bumping into Michael at open call auditions."
James Oseland, Time Out NY
CRIMINALS IN LOVE
"KEVIN CRISTALDI IS QUITE ENGAGING as the man up against the odds of destiny in a messed-up world."
Clive Barnes, NY Post