The Lady from Dubuque Reviews

Chicago Tribune - Somewhat Recommended

"...But although there's passionate work from the talented young Stephen Dunn as Sam and a pleasingly complex performance from Colin K. Jones as Oscar (the Lady's strange companion), the Infamous Commonwealth cast never captures the tony, literate, complacent Connecticut ambience the playwright intended."

Chicago Reader - Somewhat Recommended

"...Genevieve Thompson's screamfest staging for Infamous Commonwealth Theatre grounds the characters in their weaknesses but doesn't make you care. Of course, neither does the playwright."

Time Out Chicago - Not Recommended

"...The actors in Infamous Commonwealth’s production are under no obligation to explain this peculiar play to us—that would be no fun at all—but it is their obligation to guide us through it. Unfortunately, this ensemble is emotionally underequipped to achieve the text’s complicated ambiguities and left with no orchestration or alchemical guidance from director Thompson, who lets most of the action unfold with no particular variation or nuance (against John Wilson’s unsightly, splotchy set)."

ChicagoCritic - Recommended

"...With Edward Albee’s weird and failed play (it closed on Broadway after only 6 performances in 1980), The Lady From Dubuque, Infamous Commonwealth has offered a stage worthy, intense theatrical play. Director Genevieve Thompson got everything out of Albee’s strange drama. Lady plays like two different plays---one is a drinking verbal blast in typical Albee style and the second is an absurdist look at dying and letting go. Somehow the two parts mesh into a whole."