Inventing Van Gogh presented by Strange Bedfellows Theatre at City Lit Theater

Windy City Times - Recommended

"...Introducing us to our dramatic universe are a number of artists (names listed in the playbill), invited by the Strange Bedfellows to set up their easels outside the auditorium and exercise their craft in real time over the evening's duration. Thus are we immersed in an environment teeming with inventive actualization-heady stuff, that artistic impulse."

Centerstage - Recommended

"...I appreciate what the Strange Bedfellows are trying to do up there in the consecrated concrete halls of the City Lit Theater. They’ve brought some local artists in to paint in the lobby while the play is going on, and they’ve made an effort to bring a little something more to the theater experience in an honest, friendly way. All in all, it made for a nice evening out, and I was pleased as punch to be there when it happened."

ChicagoCritic - Recommended

"...So ultimately despite Inventing Van Gogh's more obtuse qualities, I'll venture to say that Strange Bedfellow's current mounting is still worth the price of admission. At times as wildly out-of-control as Van Gogh himself, there's nonetheless something intoxicating about its particular brand of madness. Never content to simply tell us what it's trying to say, the play requires that we actively wade through the muck to find it out. And only even then do we find ourselves reflected back at us. Much like the action internal to the play itself, extracting meaning from Inventing Van Gogh is its own form of self-portraiture."