And the reviews just keep coming...

From the Chicago Reader:

Slide: Very freely adapted from Upton Sinclair's meat packing expose, The Jungle,Tantalus Theatre Group's ambitious two-hour rock opera/bar act delivers a strong score and dedicated performances. The company transforms Sinclair's muckraking depiction of the Chicago stockyards circa 1905 into a brutal, but maddeningly indeterminate portrait of a "music plant." Wannabe star Jurgis, an immigrant as in Sinclair's book, pursues his dream and loses his way, his wife, and his family. Finally he acheives a perverse peace by surrendering to the status quo of the music-making machine. Ed Plough (and Steve Clark)'s songs, well-performed by the tenecious ensemble unleash a ton of eloquent anger and end with a lovely lament. Though this adaptation is too abstract, never arriving at specific parallels for the abuses Sinclair detailed, its progressive spirit rings as true as Sinclair's did 100 years ago.--Lawrence Bommer

Through 8/30: Mon-Tue 8pm. Joy Blue, 3998 N. southport, 773-960-2066. $10.

I'll keep posting reviews as they come. This show has been more reviewed than any other Tantalus show, largely through the efforts of Leah Fox, our PR person. She did a marvelous job of selling us around, and it shows through in these reviews. Cool.