Chicago Tribune - Highly Recommended

"...Blue Man is all about metaphors and its ever-savvy show now ends with us trying to negotiate touch with our (maybe taller) community members, rather than being buried in it together. Perhaps the Blue Men are saying the world has become more competitive. Or maybe they just think that the shaking of all aspects of our three-dimensional selves might just be the next touching frontier."

Chicago Sun Times - Recommended

"...Watching the show for the first time in many, many years, I was struck by how prescient that mind-set happened to be. For here is a performance piece full of ideas — about art and the art market, visual perception, the science of optics, the nature of group dynamics and much, much more. Yet out of a fear of appearing too brainy, it knowingly dumbs down — disguising itself as a mindless fraternity-like group ritual full of subtly understood “rules” drawn primarily from rock concert culture. In other words, much like our culture as a whole, “Blue Man Group” is fully ambivalent."

Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended

"...Three silent guys in cobalt blue makeup, accompanied by a small but very loud rock band, perform a wordless, high-tech, highly visual work of participatory conceptual theater. Blue Man Group offers a visceral education in the tenuous division between art and trash."

Windy City Times - Highly Recommended

"...The silent Blue warriors fight valiantly against isolation, however: climbing over chair-backs with spectators seated in them, coaxing audience members to the stage to assist them in their tricks, scatter-shooting (soft) projectiles into the house and conducting the crowd in orchestrated chant-alongs. Even the much-publicized "splash" rows in front, where customers are issued waterproof ponchos, represent an effort to share the experience. By the time the animated—or so we think—stick figures step forward off their screens to encompass the entire theater in their communal embrace, even the most reticent playgoer will be caught up in the gleeful kinetic anarchy."
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Centerstage - Highly Recommended

"...It's witty. It's fun. It's ever-evolving. Heck, it's even rocking. The almost lethal combination that is "Blue Man Group" has been packing the rows at the Briar Street Theater for nearly 10 years."

Chicago Stage Review - Highly Recommended

"...What BLUE MAN GROUP has always done, and continues to do, best is create visually dazzling manifestations of house music with a driving beat that is nothing short of irresistible. They are delightful percussionists and their supportive band is fantastic."

Chicago Theater Beat - Highly Recommended

"...Blue Man Group is a treat. It’s an event, and it’s enthralling. This show is a lot of spectacle, but with a lot of thought put into it as well. Perhaps most importantly, it’s the kind of show that makes people who don’t normally see theater get out and buy a ticket! Everyone wants to see Blue Man Group, the same way that everyone wants to see a big summer blockbuster. And the fact that this show manages to create something like this, and actually respect the intellect of their audience, might be one of the most notable theatrical feats of the 90’s, 2000’s and beyond."