Whisper House
Black Button Eyes Productions
A Chicago Premiere
Joseph Jefferson (“Jeff”) Award Recommended
“Presented in an intimate staging by director Ed Rutherford for Black Button Eyes Productions, Whisper House is at once spooky and sweet, whimsical and macabre, ironic and touching”
-Albert Williams, Chicago Reader (Read the Full Review Here!)
“Ideally realized...stylishly macabre...formidable director Ed Rutherford continues to demonstrate his unique flair for dramatizing the more ghostly aspects of earthly existence…the intimacy, raw truth and knowing style of Chicago’s Black Button Eyes production will be hard to beat.”
-Hedy Weiss, WTTW (Read the Full Review Here!)
“4 Stars Our of 4...Director Ed Rutherford has perfectly created a tiny little world…There is so much to love in this show: the singable tunes tautly batoned by Micky York and his onstage band, the period costumes by Rachel M. Sypniewski, the excellent acting.”
-Angela Allyn, Chicago Stage Standard (Read the Full Review Here!)
”Director Ed Rutherford inspires solid work from six actors…to quote Virginia Woolf, it would not be wrong to head ‘to the lighthouse.’”
-Lawrence Bommer, Stage and Cinema
“As directed in Chicago by Ed Rutherford and Choreographed by Derek Van Barham, Whisper House turns out to be quite an emotional show, thanks to the resonance of young [Leo] Spiegel’s performance, the strength of the relationship built here with [Kate] Nawrocki, and the honesty and simplicity of [Karmann] Bajuyo’s work...there are moments in Whisper House that absolutely had me in the heart.”
-Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
“Whisper House is a 2020 must see.”
-Margaret Smith, Picture This Post
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