Chicago Sun-Times - December 24, 2006

'All theater, all the time':
Chicago stages saw an action-packed year

By Hedy Weiss

Making a list of the top picks of the 2006 Chicago theater season is an exercise akin to writing one of those shows like "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Abridged," in which you get meaningless if often very cleverly connected snippets from all the Bard's plays packed into 90 breathless minutes. This was, to be sure, an action-packed year on Chicago's stages, as the motto seems to have become: "All theater, all the time." And when things were good -- and it was often -- they were very, very good. Here are some favorites, arranged eccentrically:

...Politics and religion: Albany Park Theatre Project's "God's Work," gorgeously rendered by a company of young actors, was a very different (and chilling) expose of religious fundamentalism run amok....