Love! Valour! Compassion! presented by Hubris Productions at Center on Halsted - Hoover-Leppen Theatre

Chicago Reader - Recommended

"...Hubris Productions' three-hour show offers a retrospective rich with the title qualities, especially undeserved compassion and conditional love. An endearing ensemble perfectly suggest friends who know one another well, for good or bad--often better than they know themselves. Like Chekhov, McNally finds a kind of permanence in the transience he treasures."

Windy City Times - Somewhat Recommended

"...The so-so acting is a pity because Love! Valour! Compassion! is an ideal play to open the Center on Halsted. McNally’s examination of a group of gay touches on numerous issues facing the gay community, ranging from aging conflicts between different generations to survivor’s guilt over HIV and AIDS. Notions of fidelity and the fleetingness of life are poignantly explored, plus the conflicts between embodying gay stereotypes or spurning them."

Time Out Chicago - Somewhat Recommended

"...At least McNally’s examination of eight New York gay men summering in New England is still poetical and humane a decade later, even if the notion that gay people can live Chekhovian existences, too, has ceased to be front-page news. And a few of the performances here will stay in your memory. Brian Lee Bennett is gracefully affecting as a shy choreographer whose vision is still at its peak while his aging body is in decay, and John Blick nebbishly charms as a square, sweater-vested accountant."

ChicagoCritic - Recommended

"...The passage of time, loss and death are woven into a summer that we easily evoke as a journey worthy of out time. I especially like the work of Andy Sinclair as the angelic Bobby and Michael Graham’s flamboyant Buzz. Anthony Guerrero moves from the wicked John to the kind James marvelously. The new venue on Halsted Street aptly features one of the finest gay plays. There indeed is much Love! Valour! Compassion! on Halsted street."