Review: 'Illinoise,' based on Sufjan Stevens' concept album, clears a fresh Broadway path
by Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times— “Illinoise,” a hallucinatory dance musical based on Sufjan Stevens' 2005 concept album “Illinois,” offers a fitting end to a Broadway season that seemed happiest when operating beyond conventional assumptions and practices. Whether the piece — I hesitate to call this delicate hybrid a show — is more dance than musical is not all that important. Let the theater award categories stretch to accommodate new forms and visions. The production, which was at the Park Avenue Armory earlier this season,...
The Hollywood Reporter—‘Illinoise’ Theater Review: Justin Peck Transforms Sufjan Stevens’ Concept Album Into a Soaring Rush of Late Adolescent Experience. Co-written with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury, the dance musical is a transcendent distillation of youth in all its pain and glory.
TheWrap—Sufjan Stevens' ‘Illinoise’ Broadway Review: What Teens & Moths Share. For those theatergoers of a certain age, watching how the New York Times covers the theater is almost as interesting as going to the theater...
Playbill—Reviews: What Do the Critics Think of Sufjan Stevens Dance Musical Illinoise on Broadway?. Directed and choreographed by Justin Peck, the show previously played an Off-Broadway premiere at Park Avenue Armory.