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"This altogether surprising play, now in a searing world premiere by Chicago Dramatists is at once acerbic, hallucinatory and achingly true... Director Russ Tutterow has assembled a superb quartet. Each actor fully inhabits his character, but it is the ensemble playing that is truly exceptional."
Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun Times
"Steinhagen's dialogue nails the enervating corporate world these guys occupy, and his plot shreds the usual we-all-pull-together American mythology. Russ Tutterow's staging brings out most of the textures in this engaging character study..."
Kerry Reid, Chicago Reader
"Steinhagen does a masterful job of recreating the male isolation of the time period and then drops two feet of snow on top of it. Tutterow plows through the snowstorm with well-paced action and humor."
Katy Walsh, Chicago Theater Beat
"Blizzard ’67 is a poignantstudy into the nature of human reactions—guilt and self-preservation dominant... Don’t miss this quirky gem."
Tom Williams, ChicagoCritic
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"...the piece genuinely captures the depressive cycles that many of us hit during winter, when freezes kill our love for our city and thaws make us give it another chance, even as non-weather factors in our lives play out in front of this strangely influential backdrop."
Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
"...this flaky tragicomedy asks us how we live with things we never thought we'd do. Its chill isn't bound by winter—it’s prolonged by the secrets we hide under formless mounds of memory, waiting for a thaw. The joke here isn’t on us—it is us."
Lawrence Bommer, Chicago Stage Style
"Director Russ Tutterow is at the top of his game, setting a pace and using music to convey a growing sense of foreboding that something bad is going to happen. Which it does of course; but is it the blizzard or something worse under cover of snow?"
Brian Hieggelke, NewCity Chicago
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