Dog & Pony voted Chicago's Best Theatre Troupe by Chicago Magazine.
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As Told by the Vivian Girls
"If you see only one play this month, make it this one." - Chicago Magazine 4/08
Best of 2008 – one of 3 shows named in preview of what’s to come – Chicago Social Magazine 4/08
"Dog & Pony's stunningly ambitious, fascinating new performance piece...is appropriately expansive....In a play full of eureka moments, the most breathtaking is an interaction between the artist and his characters that illustrates, as well as we've ever seen, the joy of creating art." - Time Out Chicago, 5 out of 6 stars!
"By turns obscure, charming, terrifying, naifish, brutal and mesmerizing, "As Told By the Vivian Girls" might be one of the more challenging and fascinating evenings in Chicago theater right now." - Chicago Tribune
"A special award should be devised for the directors, designers and performers involved...everyone comes together at the most pivotal moments, with sound projections and the sense of having entered some strange, haunting, alternative world coalescing like magic." - Recommended, Sun Times
Ape
Critics' Pick - TimeOut Chicago
"Budding political playwrights, take note: In this stimulating play, we hear people grappling with ideas within the context of their own stories. That happens most engagingly through the resonant mother-son relationship...Such honesty has been handled with care by Vanderwarker and her fine cast; as Aaron's mom, Larson is so natural she doesn't seem to know she's in a play....It also signals an author whose evolution we'll eagerly observe."
- Novid Parsi, TimeOut Chicago
"A compelling new play...Grant Sabin's set design is bang on the money....As portrayed by Evan Fillon, Aaron is adolescence personified -- morose and curled in on himself, with flashes of spunk and real intellect....What works exceedingly well are the carefully observed moments of veiled intentions."
- Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune
"directed with marvelous invention by Krissy Vanderwarker" and featuring "Evan Fillon, marvelous as a sensitive, brainy, sexually awakening adolescent"
- Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times
Mr. Marmalade:
Five Stars
- TimeOut Chicago
"Sweet and quirky without being saccharine, imaginatively staged without feeling overzealous, this rendition possesses a goosebumpy warmness we didn't see coming."
- TimeOut Chicago
"[a] perfect production...the perfect balance between playfulness and pathos...they've nailed it."
- Newcity
"devilishly delicious"
- Chicago Free Press
"swiftly directed...cunningly designed...and acted with panache"
- Chicago Tribune
"The innovative emerging Dog & Pony Theatre Company" - Flavorpill
Dead City:
"fleet, funny and smart" - Centerstage
Four Stars, "weirdly funny and haunting new work... like nothing else in town" - TimeOut Chicago
Osama the Hero:
"...some of the most disturbingly well-staged violence we've seen in a long time, a moment where playwright Dennis Kelly and director Krissy Vanderwarker pinpoint the psychology of misdirected rage in the name of national and international security." "excellently played" - Chicagoist
Crumble (Lay Me Down Justin Timberlake):
One of the Top 5 Productions of the Year - Newcity
"A knockout production…an unexpected jolt of good theater…unique and entirely unto itself." - Newcity
One of the Top 10 Best of the Fringe in 2005 - Chicago Tribune
"One of the odder offerings this season, and one of the most weirdly satisfying... fearless, funny and smart" - Chicago Tribune
"Captures the imagination" and Recommended - Chicago Sun-Times
"Go see this show" and Highly Recommended - Time Out Chicago
Highly Recommended - Chicago Reader
As Much As You Can:
"Compulsively watchable" - Chicago Reader
"Smoothly directed... a first-rate show" - Next Magazine
"Enthusiastically recommended" - Nytheatre.com
Top 10 shows to see this week (8/6/05) - Theater Mama
Clouds:
"A very enjoyable show, intelligently and gracefully directed..., with solid design elements and some excellent acting." - Chicago Journal
"Tip of the Week" - Newcity
