Cabaret presented by No Stakes Theater Project at Berger Park Coach House

Chicago Reader - Somewhat Recommended

"...The collective efforts of director Erin Shea Brady, choreographer Mollyanne Nunn, musical directors Emilie Modaff and Erick Rivera, and a loose four-piece band never successfully put a song across or bring the seedy Kit Kat Klub credibly to the stage. Fortunately, the cast skillfully plumb most of the depths of Joe Masteroff's well-crafted book, making the story of doomed romance-and doomed progressive sexual politics-in the Weimar Republic's final days disarmingly poignant. In the thankless central role of struggling novelist Cliff Bradshaw, Cory Hardin captivates."

Chicagoland Musical Theatre - Recommended

"...Director Brady scales this production down to a small, intimate, sparsely dressed stage, taking full advantage of the spatial limitations of the set to blur the lines between what happens in the Kit Kat Club where Sally performs, the boarding house where Cliff takes a room and the rest of Berlin. Dancers spill out into the audience, the Kit Kat orchestra remains on stage and interacts with characters outside of the club, actors' exits and entrances overlap, scenes fade into each other almost cinematically rather than ending. All of this action is accompanied by a four piece orchestra slightly out of step with one another, often sliding into dissonance. The overall effect is deliberately dream-like and unsettling. The audience is put a little bit on edge, and appropriately so. In spite of the distracting shabby glamour of the Kit Kat Club, Berlin is moments away from falling."