"Director Gary Griffin's radiant revival, with a truly starry cast all its own, easily can stand beside anything Broadway has to offer.

This is a crystal clear, visually ravishing, fully glorious version of a play most audiences know only from its less-than-ideal movie incarnation. And if Chicago Shakespeare were not on such a tight subscription schedule it easily could run for a year."
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"This is a rich, deftly cast, fully realized and emotionally honest production that deserves to do very well for Chicago Shakespeare and that contains a pair of very strong central performances."
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"Peter Shaffer’s dark comedy may be middle-named for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and narrated by rival-in-his-own-mind Antonio Salieri, but the play isn’t really about either composer. Instead, it’s a wry, unexpectedly moving treatise on genius, jealousy and justice.

Sella is a technically proficient actor whose mechanisms don’t become clear until well after we’ve left the theater. But it’s Sublett, as Mozart, who astonishes. Eschewing imitation of Tim Curry in the Broadway premiere or Tom Hulce in the film, Sublett portrays Mozart not as a manic caricature but a damaged child prodigy, disdainful of societal strictures but still looking for validation. Remarkably, as Shaffer’s play comes to a close, we forget where our sympathies lie; we’re pretty sure that’s justice in the end. "

"Shaped by Griffin's deep reservoir of insight and humanity, Amadeus is visually ravishing and emotionally ravaging. Thankfully, it is also leavened with humor, something indispensable in a tale this darkly intense. In all, Amadeus is a stunning fugue for virtuoso performers."

"As the antihero of this marvelous production directed by Gary Griffin, Robert Sella is engaging and better at considering the cosmic joke that is his life than at emoting over it. He's supported by an accomplished cast and jawdroppingly splendid designers."