Chicago Reader
- Highly Recommended
"...If the production were only about clever stage images, it wouldn’t resonate as deeply as it does. (That said, the set, codesigned by Tatiana Kahvegian and Keith Parham, along with Parham’s haunting lighting design create a memorable, if claustrophobic, world for this story.) Fortunately, Stone and the three actors are in sync with the nuanced, but still resolutely outsize, themes and emotions of Dostoevsky’s novel as distilled by Campbell and Columbus."
Stage and Cinema
- Highly Recommended
"...Fyodor Dostoevsky's masterpiece Crime and Punishment runs around 700 pages and involves close to two dozen significant characters. TUTA Theatre's production uses as its text a 2003 adaptation by Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus: this version involves three actors playing six characters, and runs a lean 90 minutes."
Buzz Center Stage
- Highly Recommended
"...Real Chicagoans don’t gatekeep hidden gems. Whether it’s hidden bars behind laundromats, the best Billy Goat location (under Mag Mile), the best desserts or street tacos, the best place to catch a local game (insert season + sport), or a must-see show or concert, real Chicagoans share the hidden gems and surprise experiences. They share because it's thoughtful, considerate, and they want others to experience the same joy and elation they themselves experienced. Most importantly, they want to talk about the shared experience after, preferably at a hidden beach adjacent gem. Today’s hidden gem is TUTA, a theatre company staging a heavy-themed production of Crime and Punishment."
Splash Magazine
- Highly Recommended
"...The situation on stage is almost unbearably poignant; the tormented antihero is repeatedly called to his own account as he plays “Catch Me If You Can” with the dapper Inspector, cannily cast as kind, certain of Raskolnikov’s guilt, and shrewdly goading the former law student into confessing. A combination of dreamy/scary sound-effects, flashback mini-scenes that further the plot, including a slow-motion black-to-strobe-effect murder scene, dream fragments, ghostly apparitions, all increase the tension and rivet our attention."
BroadwayWorld
- Highly Recommended
"...TUTA Theatre is currently performing CRIME AND PUNISHMENT in their intimate space in Chicago's Ravenswood Manor neighborhood. Premiering at Writers Theatre in 2003, the adaptation by Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus has been produced across the country and world. Whether you are a fan or a newcomer to Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1866 novel, TUTA”s production captures the psychological suspense of the classic story."
NewCity Chicago
- Highly Recommended
"...Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) has been called a superb master of plot structure and merciless dissector of the psychology of evil. A twenty-first-century adaptation of Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment,” on stage at TUTA Theatre through June 28, gives audiences an opportunity to meet one of the most famous murderers of late modern literature. Directed by Jacqueline Stone, this adaptation by Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus is a ninety-minute stripped-down version, requiring one to pay close attention to the intricate system of philosophy that drives the plot."
