"Remarkable. The musical unleashes Calarco's most surreal and hallucinatory impulses. The whole production is sensually charged--beautiful and seedy, attractive and repellent at once. Intuitively, Calarco's plugged into something creepily seductive in the material. In his hands Side Show is transformed into an erotic fairy tale about the failure of love. We in the audience are voyeurs, perversely enthralled by the sexual weirdness of the subject matter, implicated in our prurient curiosity."
-The Washington Post