Terre Haute Reviews

Chicago Reader - Somewhat Recommended

"...Harrison is desperate to have his true motives chronicled, and James wants every never-before-published detail of the bombing. Yet for most of the show's 80 minutes, White dallies with peripheral issues that shed little light on either the characters or anti-government violence. Michael Rashid's intelligent, well-paced Black Elephant Theatre production can't start the script's dead engine."

Centerstage - Somewhat Recommended

"...At what point does a dramatist’s love of complexity and ambiguity, his need to tall all sides of a story, degenerate into a morass of simple moral confusion? Must the definition of a liberal be as the old joke says, a man so open minded he won’t take his own side in a quarrel? In our quest for sophistication have we lost the ability to call a monster by his true name?"

Chicago Theater Beat - Recommended

"...It’s not exactly a meeting of minds. McVeigh is too much the militia-minded thug of action to be any more than a nightmare clad in flesh. But, despite its highly imaginative pretend-encounter, Terre Haute goes far to explaining how much American extremes—Vidal’s kneejerk cynicism about American ideals and McVeigh’s lethal paranoia and self-pity—seem to deserve each other. Most of us are happy enough to live in between."