Next To Normal presented by MadKap Productions at Skokie Theatre

Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended

"...As Diana, Whitney Morse cycles between sweetness, sarcasm, and psychosis but is at her most chilling acting out the aftereffects of electroshock therapy and sedation. As husband Dan, Brian Zealand plays up a state of denial that any member of a family with its own share of baggage could relate to. The Goodman children, Natalie (Molly LeCaptain) and Gabe (Jordan Grzybowski), highlight the show with their charisma, emotional range, and unbelievable vocal chops. You'll leave the theater wondering, as Gabe does, which is worse, the cure or the disease?"

Chicago Stage and Screen - Highly Recommended

"...The perfectly cast ensemble of the MadKap Productions jewel box rendition of Tony Award Winner Next to Normal now on view at the Skokie Theatre gives the audience the kind of deeply thoughtful troubling theatre that was appropriate to open on the anniversary of 9/11. The human condition is fraught with madness and this is a play that takes the measure of one family’s journey into the heart of our darkness. It is not an evening of theatre for the weak at heart, but it is an evening that should be experienced."

Around The Town Chicago - Highly Recommended

"... Each audience member will walk out of the theater feeling a bit different from the person who sat next to them. They might be the normal one, or then again, they might be “Next To Normal”. While this is serious subject matter, it is handled very well with a cast that truly makes this a wonderful experience for each and every patron."