Radio Culture presented by TUTA Theater Chicago at TUTA Theatre

Chicago Tribune - Recommended

"...The text’s use of third person feels a little contrived at points. But Smith’s controlled performance is often mesmerizing. He’s capable of projecting great distress with the smallest gestures and expressions. And despite the grim surroundings (also captured by Keith Parham’s unforgiving lighting and Jeffrey Levin’s soundscape), Smith also animates small moments of joy and humor with equal skill."

Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended

"...Smith's portrayal of this everyman isn't flashy but is affecting, especially in the way that he intentionally makes eye contact with audience members while telling Volodya's story. Dosko is able to make a memorable drama out of a sequence of events that, on the face of it, are utterly forgettable. And that is what makes Volodya's ordinary day extraordinary."

Windy City Times - Highly Recommended

"...TUTA Theatre has concocted one of the most tightly packed, powerful theater experiences from source material that should be the opposite."

Chicago On the Aisle - Highly Recommended

"...For more than two decades, TUTA Theatre Company has forged its reputation by introducing audiences to unusual theatrical fare drawn largely from Eastern and Western European playwrights. The company has been more or less itinerant. But for the next month or so, if you venture into its newest, tiny (25-seat) storefront in a hidden corner of the Ravenswood neighborhood, you will spend 70 absolutely riveting minutes experiencing the U.S. premiere of Maxim Dosko's "Radio Culture.""

NewCity Chicago - Highly Recommended

"...This is amazing, intimate, beautiful, political theater, interested in the functionality of aesthetic slowness. Profoundly good technical work aside, this is a show that has a cis white man speaking for a little more than an hour straight. Could Volodya been played by a person of color or a non-binary actor? To ask questions of identity would only expand and deepen this work, already a sublime piece of art."