Chicago Tribune - Highly Recommended
"...500 Clown is a theater company with some unique properties. The stuff they do looks (and I'm sure is) genuinely dangerous because the scenic pieces they throw around mostly are colossal, heavy structures made of solid wood that easily could smack you in the head. Most shows of this type have an ephemeral quality; 500 Clown's work is refreshingly gutsy and three-dimensional. And it's thrillingly risky — in the real sense of that word, not the pretentious, arty sense."
Chicago Sun Times - Recommended
"...In "Frankenstein" there is a bit too much dead space at times, though the trademarks of carefully calculated rhythms, distractions and detours that are part and parcel of the 500 Clown style are in full gear. A little more story development might have served this show well, but Tatjana Radisic's fabulous costume design, and a tricked-up table with leaves that could easily serve as a guillotine, feed into the 500 Clown mix of muscle, mania, fearlessness and gleefully warped mental states."
Daily Herald - Highly Recommended
"...The supremely talented ensemble reprise their hits, distilling Shakespeare's tragedy and Mary Shelley's novel to their essentials, which makes for funny, intensely physical shows offering more than thrills and perilous props."
Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended
"...500 Clown's revival of this 2003 show is both funny and horrifying, as the abused monster comes to represent all the undeservedly scorned. Sadistic humor is more in evidence here than in 500 Clown Macbeth, but the piece is still clever, original, and expertly performed."
Windy City Times - Highly Recommended
"...If there’s one thing to tie 500 Clown to Steppenwolf ( well, the early days of Steppenwolf anyway ) , it’s the go-for-broke physicality the performers throw into their roles. Whether being squashed by floorboards or dodging tumbling tables, 500 Clown takes painful-looking stunts to comic extremes."
EpochTimes - Highly Recommended
"...Wild, zany, and very physical is probably the best way to describe the delightful trio known as 500 Clown. Molly Brennan, Adrian Danzig and Paul Kalina are three very talented clowns/actors who are able through their faces, voice and pure physical beings make comedy and tragedy blend into a single entertainment piece."
Time Out Chicago - Recommended
"...500 Clown Frankenstein, which hinges—both more daringly and more successfully—on the personalities of the troupe’s three wholly original gargoyle characters. Even as high-relief as they are, in a room this big they can come off as Halloween Hummels when their maniacal business isn’t spilling out into the house."
