With a beautiful — truly splendiferous — new lobby at the Water Tower Water Works, Lookingglass Theatre has come back to life with a rich, circus-infused show designed to remind everyone of its crucial historical role in the Chicago theater aesthetic.

Lookingglass Theatre’s CIRCUS QUIXOTE provides Chicago audiences with a stunning dramatic adaptation of Don Quixote that is every bit as impactful and imaginative as its source material.

Where Miguel de Cervantes’ 16th century work is smart, suspenseful, playful and pointed, “Lookingglass Quixote” is over-the-top, sophomoric and largely incoherent.

Lookingglass is going for a showstopper with its first show in 19 months. That includes stunts on a moving windmill.