"The musical "Springtime for Hitler" is supposed to be a stretch, but this romantic comedy is not: Swiss playwright Igor Bauersima based his glib, cloying play on the true story of two teenagers who met in a chat room and agreed to commit suicide together. Inexplicably, his 2000 work has achieved international success. Chatty, spunky Julie and August sit atop Norway's 2,000-foot-high Pulpit Rock for almost 90 minutes talking about their generic adolescent alienation; noticeably absent from either character is a convincing suicidal impulse. In this production by New York-based Thalatta! Theatre International, director Doug Howe pushes his young, earnest cast to exploit the script's quirky comedy, resulting in a breezy, lighthearted, consistently noncredible evening" - Justin Hayford, Chicago Reader 05/25/06

"Concerning a young man and woman who meet on the Internet through their mutual desire to commit suicide and then meet in person to do just that, norway.today seems like a late-night dorm-room session with pot-smoking students telling each other how shitty the world is, so why don’t we just effin’ kill ourselves, man. It’s hard to take them—and, similarly, this play—seriously when we never doubt they’re not going to do it. norway.today is the equivalent of the wrist cut so lightly it doesn’t even draw blood. From the start, as Julie (deBuys) and August (Prioleau) type on their PCs, we know these two, who utter vague generalities about life’s suckiness, will be saved by love. Yet Bauersima doesn’t give his characters enough specificity for us to care whether (or to understand why) they live or die, and his work lacks a structural precision that would suggest a modern-day absurdist-everyman quality. Howe directs his capable actors to bang one flat, screechy note with little variation, which makes it tough to absorb the language and renders these characters’ angst faddishly disingenuous—though apparently it’s meant sincerely. The multimedia elements (the projected computer screen, the digital camera) seem routine, while the scenic design (clapboards suggesting a cliff) seems makeshift. Supposedly, norway.today, here in its American premiere, is the most produced play in Germany. This suggests either that much is lost in Anna Kohler’s translation or that the German theater audience suffers from an epidemic of suicide-flirting sophomores" - Novid Parsi, TimeOut Chicago 5/25/06