Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? presented by Invictus Theatre Company at Reginald Vaughn Theater

Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended

"...It may be difficult to comprehend today just how shocking Edward Albee's drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was when it premiered in October 1962, the same week that the Cuban missile crisis began. While the atomic fireworks the world feared never happened, Albee's three-act, three-hour-plus masterpiece detonated an explosion that rocked American culture to its core. As Invictus Theatre Company's blistering new production proves, the 60-year-old play still sizzles, resonating on levels emotional, political, and philosophical."

Talkin Broadway - Highly Recommended

"...For the closing production of its 2021-2022 season, Invictus Theatre Company transforms its black box theatre into the claustrophobic home of George and Martha, the central characters of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Under the direction of the company's artistic director, Charles Askenaizer, this offering is intimate and intense almost to the point of being painful."

Around The Town Chicago - Highly Recommended

"...It has been sometime since I last saw a production of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", and I never anticipated that a small storefront theater company would put on the one that I saw tonight. It was dynamite. For those of you who have seen the film version with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, you ain't seen nothing until you see what Invictus Theatre of Chicago does in the intimate ( to be honest, teeny) theater called the Reginald Vaughn , a storefront on Thorndale, just East of the Red Line station."

Third Coast Review - Highly Recommended

"...Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is one of those classics with faces and names etched on my memory. I was probably too young to see it when it premiered in 1966 but some years later, I saw it at the Roseland Theatre with my mom and her friend. The movie screen has its own illusional qualities that make the bare-knuckle brawling of George and Martha safely distanced. Invictus Theatre Company's artistic director Charles Askenaizer helms this Edward Albee script to put the anger and burned dreams of that famous couple in your face. In this storefront space, the performance is intense like that carnival ride with the centrifugal force that pins you to the wall as the floor falls away. You remember the terror but you get on that ride anyway."