At The Center presented by The Agency Theater Collective at Chicago Dramatists

Chicago Tribune - Recommended

"...Inspired by interviews with attorneys and staff at the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University's School of Law, the play (written and directed by Andrew Gallant and Tim Touhy) presents a fictional account of Hector Reyes (Armando Reyes), who has spent 19 years in prison for the brutal rape and stabbing of Elizabeth Harvey (Sommer Austin). The latter has spent the years since the assault fighting addictions and largely turning over the raising of her teenage daughter, Rebecca (Nicole Magerko), to her sister Kathleen (Sarah Welborn)."

Chicago Reader - Somewhat Recommended

"...If coauthors Andrew Gallant and Tim Touhy had stuck to this story, they might have had a whizbang of a play, especially given the impassioned, detailed performances of their female leads. Unfortunately they devote an equal amount of stage time to the Center on Innocence (clearly based on Northwestern's Center on Wrongful Convictions), where the team trying to free Elizabeth's accused rapist mostly engage in tin-eared exposition. Codirectors Gallant and Touhy keep a steady pace but too often strand clumps of actor in wayward corners."

Theatre By Numbers - Somewhat Recommended

"...“At the Center” is a commendable work, but a work still in progress. It hits all the beats of a modern stage drama, and is designed and performed with zeal by terrific artists, but there is still work to be done to bring two story halves into a cohesive whole."