Comments & Reviews

We love feedback! With every show, Ten Thousand Things invites all audience members to tell us what they think. Here are a few reviews from critics, thoughts from fellow theater leaders, and comments from audience members in our non-traditional performance locations.

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  • “Pretty much anytime Michelle Hensley’s Ten Thousand Things Theater does a show, it’s worth dropping whatever you’re doing and going to see it…TTT challenges itself and its audiences to their highest and best calling”

    —Pioneer Press

  • “Ten Thousand Things produces this community’s finest Shakespeare”

    —Star Tribune

  • “You brought a very precious ray of light into a very dark world."

    —Inmate after The Good Person of Szechwan

  • "This was my first taste of Shakespeare and I hunger for more."

    —Inmate after The Tempest

  • "Michelle Hensley is a national treasure — may her influence spread across America."

    — Oskar Eustis, The Public Theater

  • "You make me feel like at least someone in the community considers me worthy of experiencing joy in my life."

    —Inmate after Brecht

  • "The troupe performed Aphra Behn and Shakespeare in a small cafeteria, surrounded by inmates sitting on the edge of their seats, talking back to the actors, screaming with laughter. Theatre should be allowed to do no less.”

    —City Pages

  • "This is exactly what we need to see before going out in the real world."

    —Inmate after Shakespeare's Cymbeline