Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended

"...Aggie Hewitt's hilarious take on the legendary Lizzy Borden parricide forgoes raunch and easy laughs, bubbling instead with smart dialogue and stranger-than-fiction historical curiosities, while Lisa McQueen's solid music bolsters the story with quirky charm. As Lizzie, Ellen Stoneking has a convincing gleam of subdued insanity in her eyes. Cohesion gives way to a flurry of uneven vignettes during the hallucinatory second-act murder trial, but the show saves itself by resurrecting the butchered parents (Jennifer Estlin and Noah Gregoropoulos) in brief, excellent cameos."
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NewCity Chicago - Recommended

"...Cristin McAlister does a nice job playing both Lizzie’s unhappy and constantly bitching sister and a Fosse-slinking defense attorney (a courtroom sequence is clearly a musical and visual nod to Kander and Ebb’s 1975 “Chicago”). And the rest of the cast, Chelsea Farmer, Mike Matlz and Sherman Edwards all have their moments. McQueen’s underscoring for the book scenes provides some terrific and haunting atmosphere for the piece, and the highest compliment I can give her score—quirky here, pastichey there, complex and colorful—is that it’s the kind of musical score that Sufjan Stevens might have written."
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Steadstyle Chicago - Not Recommended

"...There are some fun things going on, but that doesn't make this a fun show.  In my view, vomit jokes are never funny (they get less funny when you show the vomit), and a story about two famous murders better damn well have good special effects.  With those things in play, and a bunch of jokes that fall very short of funny, this show just isn't ready.  The Annoyance is known for a lot of humor and a good deal of offense.  Personally, I'd rather be offended than bored."
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