Chicago Tribune
- Highly Recommended
"...Few great stage actresses get stellar lead roles—Broadway has introspective, vocally constricted movie stars for that. Even fewer are of a standard comparable to Cherry Jones, a primal creature of the legitimate stage who can embrace a character's theatrical eccentricity and guttural vulnerability—and yet also send her, like some terrifyingly honest dart, straight to the middle of your heart."
Chicago Sun Times
- Highly Recommended
"...Doubt is an intimate play that nevertheless easily fills a large theater -- not just because of its fine cast, but because it trades in universal themes, and because its cracklingly written individual scenes are textbook examples of how to make the theater almost audibly pop with a combination of tension, humor, pain and soul-searching."
Chicago Reader
- Highly Recommended
"...Aloysius, played by the superb Cherry Jones in this touring version of the 2005 Broadway hit, has no proof; all she has is the certainty that is the bedrock of her calling. Shanley illuminates the inclination of a male-dominated church to preserve priestly power by covering up sex abuse rather than confronting it. But he wisely keeps the audience in doubt about the priest's guilt or innocence--and about whether Aloysius's holy war is really driven by her resentment of patriarchal protocols and her mistrust of progressive policies that emphasize "welcoming kindness" over old-fashioned discipline."
Windy City Times
- Highly Recommended
"...In ordinary circumstances, Cherry Jones’ star power would decide the question in our minds. But Jones is renowned for a total-immersion approach to her craft rivaling that of the legendary Glenda Jackson, courageously endowing Sr. Aloysius with the arthritic stride and sibilant lisp of an Appalachian mountain witch."
EpochTimes
- Highly Recommended
"...Director Doug Hughes moves this stellar cast through the 90 minutes ( no intermission) on a marvelous set (John Lee Beatty) perfectly lit (Pat Collins) and with just the right touch of music (David Van Tieghem). This production works because it has no intermission. It would be unfair to break the mood of this marvelous script with a 10 or 15 minute break. In fact, it would be almost impossible to get back into this story. While the topic is very strong (and extremely topical) there are some very funny moments."
Northwest Indiana Times
- Highly Recommended
"...Jones is doing so much more than playing a concerned nun. This amazing actress is so gifted, she is able to use every line on her face and every nervous tic to communicate countless messages to an already on-the-edge-of-their-seats audience."
Time Out Chicago
- Highly Recommended
"...So much praise has been heaped on Cherry Jones’s expert Tony-winning performance that there’s little to add, other than reassurance that her clenched-jawed, padlock-minded Aloysius hasn’t been overbilled."
ChicagoCritic
- Highly Recommended
"...It is rare that we see the original star from a Broadway show doing the national tour of a show. Cherry Jones does that as she is magnificent as Sister Aloysius in John Patrick Shanley’s superb parable Doubt. The play is a masterpiece of writing and Jones’ performs a tour de force."
Chicago Stage and Screen
- Highly Recommended
"...Broadway in Chicago's highly anticipated Chicago Premiere of this justly acclaimed play features the Tony Award winning performance of the formidable Cherry Jones as Sister Aloysius. It's easy enough to see Sister as a block of ice, a cynical and uncaring tyrant. But she truly believes she is acting in the best interest of her students, and thus proves to be a truly complex and intriguing character. Jones' "take no prisoners" performance is both heroic and hilarious in its obstinence."
