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“Among the cast, musicians, and crew are two young actors who are certain to rise in stature in the years to come... Andre Amarotico who in one scene manages to play both a time-traveling robber baron and a fast-food worker. He gets the best line of the show... Amarotico... makes performing lines like this look easy. The sign of an artist who’s really coming into his own”
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-Giovanni René Rodriguez, Forbes, for SF Mime Troupe’s Back to the Way Things Were
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"Actor Andre Amarotico’s delivery is that of a Narcissus beguiled by his own reflection… As the young men train for an amateur bodybuilding contest, Kropschot and Amarotico transcend under the direction of Gary Graves… When Amarotico’s Clark finally looks at himself honestly, it’s with a brow not just of self-loathing, but worry at what he might do."
-Lily Janiak, SF Chronicle, for Push/Pull
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“Andre Amarotico is a live wire, each realization or change of status another spasm, a new explosion of sparks”
-Lily Janiak, SF Chronicle, for SF Mime Troupe’s Treasure Island
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"Andre Amarotico awards us with a performance that is at times painful to watch, at times truly inspiring. His own intensity is written in a brow knitted tight and in eyes that dart one minute in wild search and then stare the next with a ghostly gaze. His present life that plays out before us is one of approach and avoidance; and we — like he — are often left constantly guessing on which side of the equation he will land. The vulnerability and yet determination of both young men is palpable as they struggles to overcome what they both perceive are the bad hands they have been dealt in life."
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-Eddie Reynolds, Theatre Eddys, for Central Work's Push Pull
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“Imagine watching the incredibly talented Andre Amarotico kill President Abraham Lincoln... Amarotico’s acting skills are so good that the Foster City theater’s audience couldn’t help getting drawn in.”
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-Joanne Engelhardt, Aisle Seat Review, for Hillbarn's Assassins
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“The large cast is all high caliber. Andre Amarotico as John Wilkes Booth is strikingly powerful. He so looks the part that I wanted to ask for a DNA test. He’s the consummate actor, his movements communicate as much as his sneers.”
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-Kim Waldron, Theatrius, for Hillbarn's Assassins
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"The acting is solid with particular kudos going to Amarotico, who deserves recognition even before beginning his main role. At (figurative) curtain up, he masterfully portrays a highly effusive and interesting professor who gives a lecture on the Bronze Era and the locale of the play’s action. His range is extended as he adroitly expresses the many faces of the opaque Nikolis."
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-Victor Cordell, Cordellreports, for Central Work's The Last Goat
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"The handsome twenty-something man with bright eyes, dimples, a spirit full of optimism, and a repeated promise of his own sincerity and honor is played with contagious intensity and attraction by Andre Amarotico.
-Eddie Reynolds, Theatre Eddys, for Central Work's The Last Goat
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"Through seamless and succinctly choreographed movements, Amarotico and Kropschot navigate the compact garage gym with precision… Amarotico powerfully portrays the ambivalent and deeply troubled Clark as he wrestles with his role as Nolan’s coach. He questions the process of getting physically “jacked.” However, he soon becomes engrossed, letting go of his fixation on the woman who left him months earlier."
-Patricia L. Morin, Front Row Review, for Central Work's Push/Pull
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"'Push/Pull' explores these urgent themes with wit and humor at Central Works... beautifully performed by Andre Amarotico"
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-Barry David Horwitz, Theatrius, for Central Work's Push/Pull
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"Then there is the acting, which is superb…. Andre Amarotico as Clark engages as an everyman with a common brand of insecurity that he depicts with needy accuracy...Amarotico is quite adept at showing his character’s neuroses and insistent side as well."
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-Victor Cordell, Cordellreports, for Central Work's for Push/Pull
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Andre Amarotico plays Clark with the kind of quiet desperation that sneaks up on you... Together, [Amarotico and Kropschot] create a chemistry that feels like two guys stuck in an elevator, each convinced the other one has the key.
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-Joseph Cillo, For All Events, for Push/Pull​
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“John Wilkes Booth, brilliantly played by Andre Amarotico, serves as inspiration to the other assassins and helps us to navigate the throughline of the piece. His is a powerful, standout performance.”
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-Otto Coelho, Theatrestorm, for Hillbarn's Assassins
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“The score is staggering in depth and The Ballad of Booth performed by the superb Andre Amarotico as Booth and Pinto as the Balladeer is haunting and heartbreaking.”
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-Vince Mediaa, VmediArts, for Hillbarn's Assassins
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“Andre Walker Amarotico showed complexity and verve as the tortured Hamlet, oscillating between Hamlet’s extreme emotions and moods with ease. He could be acerbic and arrogant, but he showed great emotional range in portraying Hamlet’s inner conflict.”
-Madeline MacLeod, Stanford Daily, for Hamlet
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“In the title role, Andre Walker Amarotico shows a wide range of all the emotions Shakespeare provides as possibilities in the words he gives Hamlet. Mr. Amarotico does so with brash aplomb and full command of his own stage and seems both larger than life and yet totally vulnerable. His moppy head, playful hops on stairs, and rides on banisters give him a boyish tone even as he turns a more and more sour, mad, and vengeful adult.”
-Eddie Reynolds, Theatre Eddies, for Hamlet
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“A whirling dervish of energy in multiple roles... Amarotico's deadpans are also a delight.”
–Mitchell Fields, San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, for The 39 Steps
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“One exception to the all-women cast is the obvious villain, John Jasper, played by with leering melodrama panache by Andre Amarotico”
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-Sam Hurwitt, Marin Independent Journal, for The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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“Andre Amarotico can season a mustache-twirling bad guy with a dash of Professor Harold Hill, ably creating a dashing peddler on which capitalism-steeped audiences might pin their hopes, however much they know better”
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-Lily Janiak, SF Chroinicle, for SF Mime Troupe’s Back to the Way Things Were
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“Sean Garahan and Andre Amarotico (referred to in the playbill as “Clown No. 1” and “Clown No. 2,” respectively) are the superstars of this production, appearing as nightclub entertainers, hotel proprietors, Scottish constables and more other characters than you could count were you inclined to do so.”
-Barry Willis, Marin Independent Journal, for The 39 Steps
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“The hyperkinetic Andre Amarotico… is especially entertaining”
-Barry Willis, Marin Independent Journal, for The Mouse Trap
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“Andre Amarotico was superb as the distraught Romeo”
Barry Willis, Marin IJ "Year in Review, Best Theater in Marin”, for Romeo and Juliet
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“Powerful, personal performances by actors who are more than up for the challenge set forth by their iconic roles”
-Brian Resler, No Proscenium, for Romeo and Juliet
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“Terrific in a variety of roles”
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–Jean Schiffman, San Francisco Examiner, for Treasure Island
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“Delightful, funny”
-Barry David Horwitz, Theatrics, for Smut
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“Lively”
-Evelyn Arevalo, Theatrics, for SF Mime Troupe’s Seeing Red
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“Excellent”
-Barry Willis, Aisle Seat Review, for The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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“Dashing”
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-Maggie Lohmeyer, Theatrius, for The Mystery of Edwin Drood