Stupid F**king Bird Reviews

Chicago Reader - Recommended

"...Cleverly and intricately staged, the cast adds the necessary warmth and humanity that comes from revealing their own flaws. Sturm’s Emma tries to protect her own ego by assuming her art is superior to her grown child’s. Yet she crumbles when he lashes out and accuses her of not loving him. It’s a heartbreaking, timeless rivalry. Later, she begs her lover to stay with her—an experienced woman who can truly understand her man’s genius, unlike the young woman he wants to leave her for—in a convincing tango that nearly steals the show."

Talkin Broadway - Recommended

"...In addition to director Solomon keeping all her actors in a state of perplexity, there is a wonderful movement director, Emil Thomas, and an intimacy choreographer, Elaine Brown. The three behind-the-scenes experts regularly physicalize Chekhov's agonized ruminations on desire and chaos, especially at one magical point when they turn the cast into a hypnotic line of seagulls themselves: floating on the winds of wanting, over a landscape of incomprehensible change. It gets very zen."

NewCity Chicago - Recommended

"...I can't tell you that this play will change the world. Or that you might not also squirm wondering if Posner thinks himself Con the changer of art while wondering why he wrote such an unnecessarily extended play. If you can put those things aside and experience Bluebird's show for the excellent production that it is, separated from the play itself, which I'm reasonably sure Chekhov would've hated, you'll enjoy it. Also, if you think Chekhov was a total goon and that his realism needs to go the way of pagers, you'll doubly enjoy it."