"NOT TO BE MISSED! Learning Curve is a very sophisticated piece of theater [that] embraces the symbolic, the inner life of the kid, the deeper context."

"A once-in-a-lifetime theatrical event! An altogether wondrous, one-of-a-kind, 'immersive' masterwork. The show captures life in a Chicago public high school in ways that are so real, yet so imaginative — so disturbing, and at the same time so life-confirming — that you want to grab hold of every politician and school bureaucrat and say: Experience this show, and then do something."

Learning Curve is both a scathing indictment of a defective system and a tender study of the awesome awakening that makes being a teen-ager so frightening and fun. It’s rare that such a public conversation about education is facilitated by students, the silent shareholders. For audience members far removed from adolescence and professionally uninvolved in the day-to-day public-school machine, the production’s intensely personal portrait of a modern urban school district is startling.

"[T]his outstanding and unforgettable production...is a vital reminder that for many people in our city and elsewhere, young or otherwise, the ongoing conversations on race, education and social justice are not simply theoretical. They are practical and of paramount importance."