| Chicago Tribune - Recommended
"...The show's only drawback (and it's a minor one) is that the stories are, by their nature, momentary glimpses. Something about the rhythm is off for about half the stories. They lack a traditional beginning-middle-end structure, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. But you keep waiting for at least one or two of these stories to develop into something fuller. That'll take some work (and more thorough interviews), but Waltzing Mechanics appears to be up to the task, collecting new material nightly."
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Chicago Reader - Recommended
"...This installment, the fourth, is a melange of humorous, weird, and touching encounters—and a general improvement over past efforts in that it relies less on caricatured wackos for momentum. There's still the obligatory public urination sketch, but director-adapter Zack Florent balances the subtle with the grotesque, offering, for instance, the story of two ladies, one black and one white, sharing a seat on the day of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. The only thing that's wanting is a little more diversity of perspective: after a while, the affluent young narrators blend together."
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Centerstage - Recommended
"... This show has gotten some flak for being very centered on a white, middle class point of view, and there’s no question that much of the humor here is driven by tensions of interaction between classes and cultures. However, this very funny multiracial cast does an apt job of demonstrating that being shouted at by aggressive strangers is a pretty universally uncomfortable experience."
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