Both Reviews

Chicago Tribune - Highly Recommended

"...Paloma Nozicka is fast becoming one of my favorite Chicago playwrights — an assertion I’m confident in making on the basis of her two full-length works to be produced thus far. With “Enough to Let the Light In,” which debuted at Teatro Vista Productions in 2022, and her latest world premiere, “BOTH,” Nozicka demonstrates complete mastery of the best type of stage thriller: those that combine gripping suspense with richly crafted characters, complex family dynamics and sensitive explorations of trauma."

Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended

"...But as in Enough to Let the Light In, she also understands Nozicka’s story depends on our investment in the grief and loss of these characters as much as the jump-scare moments. Nozicka excels at playing the family truth-teller who shapes and explores the shared trauma and who is thus blamed for keeping the pain alive."

Stage and Cinema - Highly Recommended

"...After an itinerant 35 years, Teatro Vista Productions, in collaboration with Steppenwolf, have settled into a residency at Steppenwolf’s 1700 Theater. Their first production in their new home is a taut psychological thriller exploring grief, trauma, and compromise."

Chicago Stage and Screen - Highly Recommended

"...This co-presentation with Steppenwolf Theatre Company that marks and new partnership with 35 year old Teatro Vista Productions brings this well crafted new work to a fully realized experience that will keep you guessing. It may be my state of constant vigilance that had me expecting a more horrifying ending (everything these days feels worse than I anticipated) but you will be riveted to this ensemble’s storytelling for the full 95 minutes. This is the kind of theatre that makes Chicago an epicenter of the art form."

Chicago Theatre Review - Highly Recommended

"...Seeing Teatro Vista spread out and breathe in the resources that this new residency at Steppenwolf offers was a truly exciting experience. The set of BOTH, designed by Sotirios Livaditis, is a serene vacation home – draped in muted beiges and blues, with warm and inviting textures that make it feel like the audience is somehow looking through the fourth wall and into a private sanctuary."

Buzz Center Stage - Highly Recommended

"...What truly makes this piece work though is the intricate, flesh-out performances from the entire ensemble. Their complexity makes them feel tangible, perhaps even evoking one’s only family members."

Third Coast Review - Recommended

"...What’s true? Of course, there’s no manageable answer to that. But it’s hard to avoid asking that question throughout Teatro Vista’s world premiere of Paloma Nozicka’s Both, co-produced by Steppenwolf Theatre Company and directed by Georgette Verdin."

BroadwayWorld - Highly Recommended

"...In the midst of its 35th Anniversary Season, Teatro Vista Productions premieres Both at the 1700 Theatre at Steppenwolf Theatre—marking the company’s first production in its new residency. Dedicated to multidisciplinary artists of color, Teatro Vista continues its mission of empowering artists to tell their own stories. With Both, audiences are treated to a gripping family thriller that balances laughter, shock, and emotional depth."