Chicago Sun Times - Recommended
"...Jeffrey Hatcher's sharp, at moments brutally funny, speed-of-light stage adaptation of Stevenson's 1886 novel -- for which director Jessica Thebus has devised an equally dizzying, fittingly graphic, spine-chillingly brutal (but always witty) production -- suggests style is as crucial as substance when it comes to unspooling this psycho-anatomy of Dr. Henry Jekyll (Nick Sandys).... Sandys, brainy and stylish, works like a true demon as he sweatily dissembles."
Time Out Chicago - Recommended
"...In the titillating new stage adaptation by Hatcher,... Northlight and director Thebus present a clean, low-maintenance version in perfect sync with the source material: high-minded in its regard for science, cynical in its regard for Victorian culture and lip-smackingly savory in its pulp-fiction carnage... Diabolical Sandys reminds us he's both a Chicago treaure and a Chicago pirate; his dapper, sonorous-voiced Jekyll (it's difficult to imagine an actor making the word 'subterranean' sound better) plays his narrative prose as high drama."
Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended
"...What makes Jessica Thebus's enjoyably slick production, though, is its handling of the triangle at the heart of Hatcher's script: Nick Sandys's Jekyll, Danny McCarthy's lead Hyde, and Cora Vander Broek's fascinatingly perverse Elizabeth explore the porous borderlands between respectability and pathology."
Copley News Service - Somewhat Recommended
"... Sandys plays Jekyll throughout, and from time to time is allowed to display the urbanity and wit that have made him such a distinguished performer on the local scene."
EpochTimes - Highly Recommended
"...As strong as the ensemble is, Nick Sandys as Jekyll is the shooting star on a beautiful summer night; worthy of the adoration of the audience members and very deserving of the standing ovations he will get each performance. A new look at a classic that should be on your list of plays to see!"
"...Jeffrey Hatcher's sharp, at moments brutally funny, speed-of-light stage adaptation of Stevenson's 1886 novel -- for which director Jessica Thebus has devised an equally dizzying, fittingly graphic, spine-chillingly brutal (but always witty) production -- suggests style is as crucial as substance when it comes to unspooling this psycho-anatomy of Dr. Henry Jekyll (Nick Sandys).... Sandys, brainy and stylish, works like a true demon as he sweatily dissembles."
Time Out Chicago - Recommended
"...In the titillating new stage adaptation by Hatcher,... Northlight and director Thebus present a clean, low-maintenance version in perfect sync with the source material: high-minded in its regard for science, cynical in its regard for Victorian culture and lip-smackingly savory in its pulp-fiction carnage... Diabolical Sandys reminds us he's both a Chicago treaure and a Chicago pirate; his dapper, sonorous-voiced Jekyll (it's difficult to imagine an actor making the word 'subterranean' sound better) plays his narrative prose as high drama."
Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended
"...What makes Jessica Thebus's enjoyably slick production, though, is its handling of the triangle at the heart of Hatcher's script: Nick Sandys's Jekyll, Danny McCarthy's lead Hyde, and Cora Vander Broek's fascinatingly perverse Elizabeth explore the porous borderlands between respectability and pathology."
Copley News Service - Somewhat Recommended
"... Sandys plays Jekyll throughout, and from time to time is allowed to display the urbanity and wit that have made him such a distinguished performer on the local scene."
EpochTimes - Highly Recommended
"...As strong as the ensemble is, Nick Sandys as Jekyll is the shooting star on a beautiful summer night; worthy of the adoration of the audience members and very deserving of the standing ovations he will get each performance. A new look at a classic that should be on your list of plays to see!"
