An
Audience-Friendly Theatrical Town, Chicago Is
New York Times Review
Next Theater has an unexpected — and unlikely — hit on its hands
with its haunting chamber musical, sophisticated music, uncompromising artistry
and imaginative scope.
Next's
'Machine' adds up to compelling, provocative theater
Chicago Tribune Review
It's a must see for Chicagoans interested in, and supportive of, intensely serious
new stage musicals.
'Adding
Machine' figures to thrive
Chicago Sun-Times Review
In David Cromer, the show has found the ideal director -- an ingenious man..
add to this a gifted cast, and an inspired design team, and you might say the
numbers here are looking very good, indeed.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Small
but ambitious Next Theater on Chicago's North Shore delivers a genuinely intriguing
"chamber musical" adaptation
Variety Review
Schmidt's surprise achievement in "The Adding Machine" -- and it's
quite striking -- is that the music feels a completely natural part of the work
New
music, old play add up right
Pioneer Press Review
After Sunday's opening performance, it's hard to imagine "The Adding Machine"
without the music. "The Adding Machine" itself has been reincarnated
in this ambitious new version. It's a great accomplishment for the Next Theatre.
Time Out Chicago Review
When Miss Devore reads the numbers that Zero adds, her routine recitation almost
imperceptibly flows into song. It’s an exquisite moment of theater. Cromer
has marshaled a top-notch cast , while designers Keith Parham (lights) and Matthew
J. York (set) supply stunning work
A
very ambitious and very exciting project
WBEZ Dueling Critics review with Kelly Kleinman and Jonathan Abarbanel
Click link to listen to the webcast!
Highly
Recommended!
WFMT Critics' Choice with Andrew Patner
Schmidt writes real music. Forget about Wicked, Pirate Queen and all
that stuff, here is an hour and a half work that excites, challenges, uses the
head and makes you think. Click link to listen to the webcast!
Brilliantly
executed work of musical maturity
New City Chicago Review
Director David Cromer achieves a seamless connection between music and movement.
"The
Adding Machine" hits all the right notes.
Evanston Roundtable Review
Bizarre. Witty. Biting. Abstract. Hilarious. David Cromer's direction is
masterful, a surreal spectacle.
3
1/2 STARS!
Copley News Review
The role of Mr. Zero is played, or more accurately, possessed by Joel Hatch.
It's as commanding a piece of acting as we may see all season.
'Adding
Machine' takes nihilistic view of corporate workforce
Daily Herald Review
Audiences who value originality will leave "The Adding Machine" impressed.
The
accounting scene alone is worth the price of the ticket.
Gay Chicago Magazine Review
The score and orchestrations are exemplary, matching much of what you’d
hear on Broadway.
Simply
put, Next Theatre’s The Adding Machine is a theatrical revelation.
The fact that it comes in such a compact and chamber-sized package is also a
stunner.
Windy City Times Review
The Adding Machine is definitely one of those homegrown Chicago-area
shows that will make you proud to boast, “I saw it here first.”
See it to secure your boasting rights now before future productions start replicating
“Wows!” all over.
In
David Cromer's handsome, elemental staging the cast's underplaying resonates
to powerful effect
Chicago Reader Review