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Praise for our 2008-09 Season:
“thoughtful”
Chicago Reader
“standout”
Chicago Stage Review
“this LiveWire Chicago Theatre production has it nailed” Chicago Tribune
“Livewire Chicago Theatre is an extremely gifted company” SteadStyle Chicago
“a hell of a lot of fun to watch" Time Out Chicago
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2008-09 SEASON
2008-09 Season - Press Release
WONDER OF THE WORLD
- Jeff Recommended -
Review by J. Scott Hill, Chicago Stage Review
"The performer that really wins me over is Deborah Craft as six — count ‘em, six — characters. From a crazy wig lady to a clown/marriage counselor/game-show host, Craft broadly brings a hilarious half-dozen distinct personalities to life."
Review by Venus Zarris, Steadstyle Chicago
"Livewire Chicago Theatre is an extremely gifted company on the verge of a real hit."
Review by William Scott, NewCity Chicago
"Pace and timing in this well-constructed comedy is pretty sharp."
Review by Brian Nemtusak, Time Out Chicago
"Cass (Madeline Long) and sidekick Lois (Chris Blumer) have an energy and rapport that outclass the material."
Review by Albert Williams, Chicago Reader
"Directed by Zachary Davis, LiveWire Chicago Theatre's energetic production has its humorous moments."
RED ANGEL
- Jeff Recommended -
- Anders Jacobson, Jeff Nominated for Outstanding Scenic Design -
- Best of Fringe 2008 - Honorable Mention, Chicago Tribune -
- Steve Wilson & Erin Barlow, Top 5 Male & Female Performances in
NewCity's Top 5 of Everything 2008: Stage -
Review by Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune
"This LiveWire production has it nailed."
Review by Kerry Reid, Chicago Reader
"Joshua Aaron Weinstein's thoughtful and calibrated production in the tiny Side Studio space (made to feel much more expansive by Anders Jacobson's terrific book-lined set) teases out the tensions with wit and intelligence."
Review by Christopher Shea, Time Out Chicago
**** "... As Leena, [Erin] Barlow offers an austere sexuality perfectly tailored to her inamorato’s scholarly tastes."
Review by Venus Zarris, Chicago Stage Review
"Anders Jacobsen’s scenic design creates excellent detail and surprising visual depth, given the small space at The Side Project Theatre."
Review by Monica Westin, NewCity Chicago
"A startling intimate production."
Preview Article by Monica Westin, NewCity Chicago
"Control Freaks: LiveWire Chicago Theatre’s new VisionFest lets the audience call some of the shots."
VisionFest 2008 - Press Release
2007-08 SEASON
2007-2008 Season - Press Release
SOLDIERS: THE DESERT STAND
- Madeline Long, 2008 After Dark Award for Outstanding Performance in a Play -
Review by Monica Westin, NewCity Chicago
"...the play's comic sensibility is impressive and in perfect balance with the chilling moments that result from the appropriation of cartoon violence, exploration of the play between reality and fantasy of war games and mediation on the media coverage of war."
Review by Kris Vire, Time Out Chicago
"Madeline Long’s all-in performance as the foul-mouthed, lisping, violence-crazed preteen does her country proud. -
Venus Zarris, Gay Chicago Magazine
"LiveWire Chicago Theatre is yet another example of the talent that brims from every nook and cranny of this city...proof that a tiny show can look, sound, feel and play great...Their world premiere of “Soldiers: The Desert Stand” displays excellence in creative and technical execution..."
Albert Williams, Chicago Reader
"nihilistic lampoon"
Soldiers: The Desert Stand - Press Release
THE COLLECTOR
- Jeff Recommended -
- Matt Kelly, Jeff Nominated for Outstanding Actor in a Play -
Brian Nemtusak, Chicago Reader
...the two performers are thoroughly commanding...Michele Kline is heartbreaking, disintegrating convincingly...Matt Kelly is all monolithic banality-the counterintuitive but correct choise, conveying a creeping menace...
Review by Tim Lowery, Time Out Chicago
**** "Kelly’s performance imbues a gentle, even warm underbelly to the man—so much so that, in an odd way, you’re almost pulling for him, hoping the girl can afford him some scraps of dignity."
Review by Mary Shen Barnright, Windy City Times
"Matt Kelly and Michele Kline, who navigate the demands of their ambivalent universe with commitment and patience"
Reviewed by ChicagoCritic.com
2006-07 SEASON
2006-07 Season - Press Release
Feature Article/Review by Brian Nemtusak, Chicago Reader
"Glenn Proud's production for LiveWire Chicago Theatre is straightforward too, neither rigidly classical nor self-consciously modern, placing the story in a thoughtful approximate antiquity with Erin Fast's simple costumes and Anders Jacobson's vaguely Attic set."
Review by Scott C. Morgan, Windy City Times
"LiveWire has assembled a largely good cast filled with plenty of standout performances. Danielle O'Farrell navigates the initial innocence and later outrage of Philomele masterfully, especially when played against her worldly wise nurse, Niobe ( Justine Serino in a wonderfully rueful and underplayed performance)."
Review by Novid Parsi, Time Out Chicago Review
"It takes an equally chameleonic set of actors to execute this ambitious work’s differing, sometimes opposing styles, at once meta and mundane."
Review by Don Hall, An Angry White Guy in Chicago
"Erin Barlow (as the older sister Procne) manages to balance the two tonal shifts effectively throughout and gives a fully realized, nuanced performance from minute one - Barlow was simply excellent."
League of Chicago Theatre's Interview with Glenn Proud
Review by Tim Lowery, Time Out Chicago
**** "There’s plenty to admire about writer-director Weinstein’s short head trip... this sounds a lot like Woody Allen territory, as do Weinstein’s insights."
Review by Kris Vire, Time Out Chicago
**** "[Christopher] Dennis’s production is appropriately dark and chilling but carries moments of comic relief (many coming from [Hall] Hall’s jittery, sweaty version of Cradeau)... Chicago newcomer [Saren] Nofs-Snyder’s icy malice, however, makes it clear that Inez is the darkest soul in the room."
Scott Foutz, Foutz.net
"Although all the cast was excellent, particularly Don Hall, it is without doubt that Saren Nofs-Snyder's wholly convincing and piercing depiction of Inez holds the entire play's intensity together."
Reviewed by Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune
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