Chicago Tribune - Highly Recommended
"..."London Road," which is superbly directed by Elizabeth Margolius and is the first musical in 17 years at Shattered Globe, is a cheering throwback in many ways to a kind of off-Loop production that has become rare in these difficult times for Chicago theaters. Instead of the small casts de rigueur this season, you get 11 actors playing 66 different characters, replete with a five-piece musical ensemble rigorously led by conductor Andra Velis Simon, who has been responsible for much storefront musical excellence over the years."
Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended
"...London Road asks us to listen and observe closely, and the actors (not a weak link in the bunch) not only sing the deceptively difficult score with ease but also embody the shifting characters with subtle details and empathy. This U.S. premiere is a triumph for Shattered Globe, but it’s also a show that feels like it needs to be seen."
Around The Town Chicago - Recommended
"...The musical "London Road" tells the story of a relatively cohesive community in Britain that has been shaken by a horrific crime within their midst. When the bodies of five sex workers are found at 79 London Road, in Ipswich, the residents in this town (an hour northeast of London) become fearful, worried, and angry. With a murderer on the loose, it could be anyone! The house where the murders took place looks like everyone else's in the neighborhood from its outside appearance. How dare the murderer ruin their relatively content and complacent lives by committing this terrible act of violence!"
Chicago Theatre Review - Highly Recommended
"...This is an extraordinary and exceptional piece of theatre. It's worth seeing, if only for appreciating how it was written and composed, the fine direction of this particular production and to applaud the exceptional performances and artistic contributions of a truly gifted group of theatrical artists."
Chicagoland Musical Theatre - Highly Recommended
"...Playwright/documentarian Alecky Blythe and composer Adam Cork set out to make a piece about a community rattled, a community wounded, a community attempting to heal itself in the ways they could grasp—quiz nights, garden contests, small incremental stuff. With time, it’s also clear theirs is a piece about what cannot be healed. As ever since Eden, that would be the loss of innocence. As surely as some people rise above themselves in the face of adversity, others reveal themselves."
Chicago On Stage - Highly Recommended
"...I just got home from a brilliant production of a truly original play that defies easy definition. It's Shattered Globe's American premiere of London Road by Alecky Blythe with music and lyrics by Adam Cork. Directed by Elizabeth Margolius, this play not only pushes the envelope of what theatre can be and do, but it tears the envelope into a million tiny pieces and scatters them in the wind. The whole time I was watching it, I felt as if I were seeing a whole new genre being born."
NewCity Chicago - Highly Recommended
"...The American premiere of the British musical "London Road" seems to pull off the impossible. The mesmerizing but highly complex score requires singers and musicians who can manage its intricate rhythms with precision yet still act their songs in the guise of the mostly-lower-middle-class English city dwellers they portray. Director Elizabeth Margolius' cast has mastered the accents and affects of their characters so that, to this American at least, they seemed spot-on."