The Dreams in the Witch House presented by WildClaw Theatre at Athenaeum Theatre

Chicago Tribune - Recommended

"...Melding the occult and something approaching quantum physics, "The Dreams in the Witch House" from WildClaw Theatre (currently at the Athenaeum) is a study in mood. Elaborate, creepy and baroque, the storytelling doesn't exactly track, but who cares when atmospherics are this good?"

Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended

"...Staging his own script for WildClaw Theatre, Charley Sherman maintains a high level of craft and creepiness without losing his sense of humor. The laughs are both easy and queasy, and certain effects deserve the applause they get. If newly founded WildClaw can't develop a cult following a la Annoyance Theatre, they just aren't trying."

Chicago Stage Review - Recommended

"...WildClaw Theatre delivers a hauntingly atmospheric world premiere of The Dreams in the Witch House. Adapted from H. P. Lovecraft’s 1933 short story, it tells the eerie tale of a student who leaves home for college only to find himself in a strange town with dark and deadly secrets."

Time Out Chicago - Somewhat Recommended

"...for all its bloody brilliance, Dreams suffers from a case of clunky artistry. Adapting Lovecraft’s loopy 1933 short story—a genius geometrist unearths the mathematical scribblings of a long-dead witch and literally follows her logic into the fourth dimension—could certainly prove a tricky task. But Sherman makes mistakes of the 30-blackouts-in-an-hour variety, turning out a product that looks more like a bulleted list of Lovecraft’s plot than an enlivening dramatization. Though Charlie Athanas’s multilayered scenery makes for an imposing presence, its multiple, symmetrical tiers move too much of the action upstage and away from the audience."