The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler presented by Dog & Pony Theatre Company at The Viaduct

Chicago Tribune - Somewhat Recommended

"...Good ideas aside, the show (co-directed by Devon de Mayo and Daniel Stermer) lurches in too many dizzying circles to fully work. Hedda's predicament—so stifling and real in the Ibsen original—is laughed off as the ravings of a woman in her gilded cage."

Chicago Reader - Somewhat Recommended

"...Whitty, who wrote the book for Avenue Q, takes the better part of an hour to forge an engaging dramatic path that avoids clever dead ends. Directors Devon de Mayo and Daniel Stermer struggle for much of that hour to maintain an adequate comedic scope--even with the help of Jeannette Blackwell's gloriously overblown performance as Mammy from Gone with the Wind, now working as Hedda's servile handmaiden. Ultimately it's Mammy's poignant struggle to become something other than "the shame of her race" that matters. It should be her play."

Chicago Stage Review - Somewhat Recommended

"...The direction of the show renders something interesting but chaotic, more so than the already frenzied script. The performances range from hysterical, as with Jeannette Blackwell’s Mammy and Matthew Sherbach’s Steven, to grating with Diane Mair’s one-dimensionally angry Hedda. The rest of the cast fluctuates between level performances and explosively mugging exaggerations."

Time Out Chicago - Recommended

"...De Mayo and Stermer’s charmingly chaotic approach mostly papers over the slow bits; it’s on the order of a Factory Theater show with literary pretensions. When Whitty is most on-the-money, the directors and their game cast follow (they really nail the Jesus gag, pun intended). But it’s Nick Leininger and Matthew Sherbach who get to enact Whitty’s most inspired notion: They play refugees from pre-Stonewall gay theater à la The Boys in the Band. Cattily, self-loathingly bonding with Mammy over their status as dated undesirables, these two actors steal a show that’s built from stolen parts."