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Feb 11, 2025

"I come to revel in this oscillation, simultaneously witnessing the real-life community and the phantasmatic performance built by Knockout’s creative team.."

Feb 11, 2025

Jan 25, 2025

"the piece is chock full of layers and complexity, smart composition and plain old good dancing — frustratingly good in its attention to detail."

Jan 25, 2025

Jan 23, 2025

‘Knockout’ Brings Iconic Femme Fight Scenes To Steppenwolf In ‘Action-Packed’ Dance Show

Jan 23, 2025

Jan 16, 2025

"‘Knockout,’ a new Chicago work, blurs the lines between dance and a feminist fight club"

Jan 16, 2025

Sep 17, 2024

An examination into the empowering culture and tension emerging from the long developing collaborative dance piece, Knockout.

Sep 17, 2024

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Jun 4, 2024

"a serious reminder that as humans with incredible amounts of thought power, we have a great responsibility."

Jun 4, 2024

May 9, 2024

"within the depths of apathy lies the potential for awakening—a flicker of awareness that reminds us of our capacity for connection, empathy, and renewal."

May 9, 2024

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Nov 29, 2022

“In any case I pivoted to stuff like this:” the Unfinished Collaborations of Dance and Theater in Lucky Plush Productions’ UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Nov 29, 2022

Oct 21, 2022

Means of Production (podcast episode)

Oct 21, 2022

Oct 18, 2022

Lucky Plush helps two artists deal with their Unfinished Business

Oct 18, 2022

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Jun 30, 2021

The Map of Now Offered a Virtual Stroll Through Windy City Arts

Jun 30, 2021

— American Theatre

Jun 30, 2021

Jun 22, 2021

The Map of Now provides an interactive guide to collaboration with a retro look

Jun 22, 2021

— The Chicago Reader

Jun 22, 2021

Jun 1, 2021

Multiplayer Mode: The Map of Now Gamifies the Virtual Performance Festival

Jun 1, 2021

— NewCity Stage

Jun 1, 2021

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"Well worth the price of admission alone."

-Big Island Music

"Rhoads is a master of comedic timing and physical humor ... you come away feeling like you know the people onstage."

— Chicago Tribune

"This fun-filled, nifty nod at skate culture in the disco era is complete with colorful tweeds and polyester galore"

— Chicago Tribune

"Refreshing as an Italian ice [and] continuously unexpected"

— Buzz Center Stage

"a contemplative journey about relationships, communication, and self-empowerment"

— PictureThisPost.com

"The entire cast really are easily among the best singers, dancers, and actors I’ve seen this season"

— Chicago Theatre Review

"Lucky Plush has a wonderful trick of producing moments of unison, balance, and coordination that arise like miracles from disorder"

— Chicago Reader

"Playful shape-shifting [that] descends into an ethereal display of dancers floating in and out of the ensemble"

— PictureThisPost.com

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“skipping like a spinning stone across its surfaces like a perfect piece of pop art"

— Time Out Chicago

"A piece of tremendous humor, humanity, and smartness”

— NewCity Stage

"Beautiful, complex, original, and exquisitely choreographed production ... revealing the elusive boundaries between performer and character"

— Buzz Center Stage

"The Better Half is full of action verbs: flying, leaping, falling, spiraling, dragging, sliding, tumbling, bouncing, springing, lifting, throwing"

— Splash Magazines

"delicious humor and a dark, poignant undercurrent…both charming and memorably provocative"

— Boston Globe

"A shocking, challenging, and deeply affecting story from beginning to end"

— Chicago Theatre and Concert Reviews

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"An ambitious accessible fusion of dance and theater that will leave you smiling and thinking long after the play is over"

— Chicagoland Musical Theater

"A brand of movement-based theater that can be comfortably called, without exaggeration, genius"

— Newcity Stage

"A window into the choreographic process…but also a meditation on how story begets form"

— Chicago Tribune

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“Smart, funny and up to the minute”

— Chicago Stage Standard

"Rhoads is a choreographer of all the instincts of a born satirist"

— Chicago Sun Times

“A head-spinning comic whirlwind…immensely likable and entertaining”

— Chicago Tribune

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"humor-filled Punk Yankees should become required viewing for all art students”

— Chicago Sun Times

'Punk Yankees’ is like an illustrated comic lecture

— SeeChicagoDance.com

“A terrific odyssey, full of amusing, varied and tireless dancing by a troupe of dancers who ably double as comics.”

— Chicago Tribune

“paradoxical, tongue-in-cheek, and subversive…and, best of all, great fun"

— Chicago Reader

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"A visually, kinetically, sonically and intellectually dazzling piece of dance theater”

— Chicago Sun Times

"Stunning dance in stark contrast to absurd and humorous movement"

— Splash Magazine

"an enchanted universe [that] skitters between the worlds of television, theater, and the dance studio—and surpasses them all... the ultimate symphony of the ordinary"

— Chicago Tribune

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“a highly intellectual and yet completely accessible dance performance”

— Burlington Writer’s Workshop

"the dancers move beautifully, athletically, and in equally improbable and choreographed configurations'

— Repeat Performances

"their collective shrug of surrender is the show’s most incredibly satisfying relief, an overdue recognition of unavoidable truths."

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Jun 29, 2008

…the work was so fresh and engaging, there is little doubt Lucky Plush will continue to evolve in its exciting efforts to integrate artistic forms.

Jun 29, 2008

Jun 26, 2008

…a physical language full of nuance and humor, yet we feel immediately fluent

Jun 26, 2008

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