John Hartman, John Hartman

Emerging onstage as a slight figure with an aw-shucks demeanor, John Hartman doesn’t look like a man with a demented heart. But in his new solo show Your Friends and Enemies, the comic and improviser first disarms with charm, then ratchets up the icky, offering up 60 minutes of comic perversions via a menagerie of bizarre characters. With its sharp pacing and twisted takes on the mundane, YFAE fits the Annoyance like a glove.

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