Nutcracker was great, very impressive!
        –  Moby

... hilariously kinky... distinctly twisted... holiday fare.
        – Ruth La Ferla, The New York Times

Naughty & nice
        – Leigh Witchel, The New York Post

...the brilliant Angela Harriell...could be the next Susan Stroman. It’s all Broadway-level work.
         – Richmond Shepard, Performing Arts INSIDER,  totaltheater.com and                 lively-arts.com

...there is pretty much no theatrical experience like The Love Show...Nutcracker Rated R was...an incredibly clever and at times poignant take on the classic ballet.
         – Michael Roderick, BroadwayWorld.com

EXCELLENT, I lubbed it & will go back again & again, definitely rated 'R'. The details in choreography, musical preciseness, and character development are laugh out loud, tears in your eyes, funny. Go see this if you can git in.
        –  Kat Wildish

Angela Harriell and her 'neo-cabaret' company, The Love Show, have reinvented the Christmas classic...It sure isn't your New York City Ballet Nutcracker, but it's a hell of a lot more fun...classic elegance peppered with contemporary grit.
        – Kerri Allen, BackStage.com

Angela Harriell has created a unique and intriguing work...and a showcase for her considerable talents as a choreographer and dramatist and her cast as dancers and actors.
        –  Byrne Harrison, StageBuzz.com

Harriell's visual witticisms are wonderful, from her update of the Battle with the Rat King (now involving the not toy soldiers, but boiler-suited minions of the Health Department, and fought for dominion of the Stahlbaums' restaurant); to the towering Empire State Building that replaces the Christmas tree; to a sad, haunting pas-de-deux by a pair of half-sleeping homeless people.
        –  R L Nesvet, OffOffOnline.com

Then comes one of the...highlights, when the Snow Queens appears as a generous drug dealer dealing out her nose "snow" to clubbers. It’s funny, it’s witty, it’s well danced. The definite highlight of the Second Act is the Arabian Dance: A male and female junky roll around a park bench, in a heroin haze. Since this beautiful interlude has always seemed to me to approximate an opium dream, it’s the best appropriation of the music since Disney’s hallucinogenic tropical fish in Fantasia. There’s also one drop-dead hysterical bit in which a woman gives an entirely new meaning to the term "nutracker."
        – Steve Weinstein, EDGE, NY