The Good presented by Curious Theatre Branch at Chicago Dramatists

Chicago Reader - Recommended

"...I so wish that she had had another hour to examine the implications of feminism, internalized misogyny, and radical self-acceptance upon her soul! But I am so glad she was able to sing through some of the meaty stuff, like "Do the secret shitty thing" (a perfect, passive-aggressive mantra for the disillusioned among us)."

Chicago Stage and Screen - Highly Recommended

"...She selects and maneuvers with words like a poet, uses gesture and movement like a dancer and sings like this is a new experimental musical. What is the show about? It's a 45 minute everything all at once journey through what this observer and commentator of real art and life has been thinking about for years, and you are going to want to hear it. It is self aware and asks searing questions even as her siren song voice lulls you into a comfort zone. In the end, I came away with the idea that it is, as nearly as a brilliant work of art can be, about the messy hard work of living and never knowing exactly what this thing called life is. And that's a lot to cover in less than an hour."

Around The Town Chicago - Somewhat Recommended

"...Inventive but scattered, “The Good” presented by Curious Theatre Branch at Chicago Dramatists, stars Jenny Magnus in a solo performance. Magnus takes on the subject of “the good” and states that for the past 30 years, she has pondered what it means. Does it have to do with virtue or not being bad… or something else? Creating an entertaining 50-minute monologue about “the good” is a tall order from the get-go, considering that Magnus doesn’t want it to sound like a college lecture or a sermon from the pulpit or a Sermon on the Mount. The main message I got is that she would like to be a good person and that bullshit (her word) gets in the way of “the good.”"

NewCity Chicago - Recommended

"..."The Good" is as satisfying and frustrating as any great philosophical text, in that it foregoes prescriptions and forces one to confront their own biases, deconstruct their longheld beliefs and then be tasked with doing the hard work of putting them back together; it asks us to think about our feeling and feel about our thinking. Like Plato's Socrates, Magnus offers us landmarks to guide us along the roadmap toward the examined life, one that's worth living."