Chicago Tribune - Somewhat Recommended
"...Some Girl(s) works very well for about half of its 90-minute duration. In the first scene, when Guy visits his old high school girlfriend (intensely and honestly played by Kristin Collins), the bitter interchange just sizzles. You spiral back to your own youth. "Wow," you think, we have such intense relationships with people who then completely drop from our lives."
Chicago Sun Times - Highly Recommended
"...Some Girl(s), now in an ideally cast Chicago premiere at Profiles Theatre (whose entire 2007-2008 season will be devoted to LaBute's work), puts the man in the hot seat of guilt. But it does so with some clever twists. And this 90-minute tale of badly gift-wrapped, "better-late-than-never" apologies is sure to delight anyone who has ever been unceremoniously dumped by a lover or been married to a dangerously easy charmer."
Daily Herald - Recommended
"...Lean, wry and unsentimental, with caustic humor and chilly candor, LaBute's examination of the carnage resulting from a busted romance is the sort of relationship drama at which Profiles excels. Director Joe Jahraus' taut production reflects a harmonious union between playwright and theater company that began last season with "Fat Pig" and "autobahn." "
Chicago Reader - Somewhat Recommended
"...Joe Jahraus's intensely intimate staging is solid, and Kristin Collins and Sarra Kaufman, as the writer's high school and college girlfriends respectively, movingly convey the desperation and anger seething beneath their polite smiles. The problem is Darrell W. Cox as the writer: he uncovers the character's childish self-involvement, but it's difficult to buy that anyone would fall for such a selfish shit in the first place."
Windy City Times - Highly Recommended
"...Playwright LaBute, director Joe Jahraus and off-Loop leading man Cox fit together like perfectly cut puzzle pieces. And while Some Girl ( s ) isn’t LaBute’s best work, the intoxicating convergence of precisely the right actor, director and playwright make Profiles’ production a twisted treat of emotional heft and devious humor."
EpochTimes - Recommended
"...Directed by Joe Jahraus in this very tiny storefront theater this little trip along time has some nice moments. Darrell W. Cox is Guy (of late all of his roles appear to be the same "guy") and each scene with each of the women in his life are very well choreographed on this small stage on a hotel room designed by Courtney O'Neill."
Copley News Service - Highly Recommended
"...The Profiles is dedicating its entire 2007-2008 season to
LaBute¹s plays, starting with a first rate production of his 2006 work Some Girl(s). The 90-minute intermissionless piece is firmly placed in LaBute territory, featuring a male who indeed treats women badly, many women and over a long period of time. But the familiarity of the theme doesn't negate the fact that the play is compulsively watchable, as much for the performance by Darrell Cox as for the substance in LaBute's script."
Time Out Chicago - Somewhat Recommended
"...For a production as polished as this Profiles offering, it’s strangely tough to watch, mainly because leading man Cox, whose uncannily natural style has been riveting in the past (as in LaBute’s vastly superior Fat Pig), has nowhere to go in a dramatically inert script. He mostly just stands there, like LaBute’s shrugging straw man."
ChicagoCritic - Highly Recommended
"...What sets this show apart is that, unlike many playwrights of this generation, LaBute departs from the whining about dysfunctional families that has become cliché for the times and takes an honest look inward. What’s funny about it is that it is so true; you know Guy and you know the women."
