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New York Times

Recalling When Entertainment Joined Education
“Chautauqua!” is a jaunty, stimulating new experiment that tests out an old form.

Back Stage

Chautauqua! reviewed by Gwen Orel
The design of the show adds to a festive mood, yet a theatrical riff on a lecture is still, in the end, a lecture

TheaterMania

Review: Chautauqua!
The National Theatre of the United States of America's take on the famous lecture circuit is consistently charming.

Culturebot

Chautauqua!!
Some of you may have seen the extraordinary work-in-progress extrav-o-rama preview of this at PRELUDE. If not, now’s your chance to be amazed and delighted by…..

'kül

Chautauqua!
At last, it has happened. Entertainment--with its gaudy lights and drooling lechers--has triumphed, and Intellectualism--with its gaudy brilliance and drooling lectures--has been shown the door. There to chronicle the collapse of both folk and high culture and the rise of mass culture is our very own National Theater of the United States who, from burlap potato-sacks to velvety red curtains, have brought the old-fashioned Chautauqua Lecture Circuit back to life--Chautauqua!

Gothamist

Opinionist: Chautauqua