Chicago Tribune, Emily McClanathan

"Strawdog has taken some of the most important values of Pride Month – love, acceptance and family – and  made them sing through the words of a 19th-century gay playwright. Happy Pride, indeed."

Chicago Reader, Kerry Reid

"Kade Cox’s Gwendolen, admittedly, seems like the kind of club vixen who wouldn’t let anyone hold her back"

Chicago Theatre Review, Colin Douglas 

"In a perpetual parade of new coifs and couture, Gwendolen is played to coy, coquettish completion by Kade Cox. The actor simply slays as this smart, sultry sex kitten who knows when to purr and pucker their highly-glossed lips, and when to arch their back and spit. Sometimes wielding a metaphorical whip Cox uses their statuesque physicality to an advantage."

Around the Town Chicago, Julia W. Rath

"Kade Cox is extraordinary in the role as Gwendolen, Jack’s love interest. In an intentionally over-the-top performance, they make the show funny, silly, and wonderful, especially parading around in all sorts of exaggerated hair, makeup, and costumes! Rain Foiles, the costume designer, gets high marks for all of the garments worn by the cast, especially Gwendolen’s unusual and gender-embracing green hair, black see through blouse, and later their green glasses and slicked-back blonde hair and fishnet hose. All of this is so very whimsical and funny! "

TALKIN' BROADWAY, Karen Topham

"Jack's love is Gwendolyn, here played by Kade Cox in Rain Foiles' costuming that feels like punk drag. (They first appear in an audacious teal wig with a mustache, everything about them making a statement. Foiles' costuming is amazing throughout.) Cox perfectly invokes Gwendolyn's neediness as well as her own capricious personality (as evidenced by a wonderfully rendered antagonism with newfound "sister" Cecily that Wilde wrote to be as tightly bound by "propriety" as humanly possible: the most "polite" fight ever, with all of its incendiary remarks carefully clouded by seemingly innocent phrasing)"