“And I’ve come to know the wish-list of my father/I’ve come to know the shipwrecks where he wished/I’ve come to wish aloud/Before the overdressed crowd/Come to witness now the sinking of the […]
Mary Zimmerman’s The Steadfast Tin Soldier is the theatrical equivalent of a gift under the tree on Christmas morning; it’s warm, heartfelt, and wrapped nicely in a bright holiday bow. The puppetry and […]
At one point in I’m Not There, filmmaker Todd Haynes’ deeply personal, scattershot depiction of the “many lives” of Bob Dylan, the singer (played by an unrecognizable Cate Blanchett) climbs the stairs […]
The Woman in Black, a spooky Christmas transplant from the UK, is the second-longest running play on the West End (the top spot belongs to another little potboiler, Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap). […]
Inspired by Giacomo Puccini’s massively influential Madame Butterfly, Boublil and Schönberg’s equally successful Miss Saigon originally premiered in 1989 in London’s West End. It would prove to be an international hit, becoming Broadway’s 13th longest […]
Listen to a song by Gregory Alan Isakov and you’re likely to hear something about suitcases, gasoline, the sea, the moon, the stars– his poetry is populated by dusty images of the […]
I really like Jen Silverman. Steppenwolf just premiered her strange buddy comedy The Roommate after a successful run at the Humana Festival. It was touching and surprising, with outstanding performances from Ora Jones and […]
Banana Season, director Sanghoon Lee’s offbeat, homegrown indie, tells the story of two lovable losers down on their luck who find one another and learn something about themselves that they didn’t know […]
What makes one a victim? And what moral superiority does a victim have over their aggressor? When is one’s humanity lost, and what qualifications, if any, are there to getting it back? […]
Desperado Miller (Abby McEnany), the main character of Andy Kushnir and Carly Moseley’s spooky new comedy Ghost Squad, is an enthusiastic and self-appointed paranormal investigator. Her mother was (allegedly) murdered by a […]
This remount of Upended’s multi-disciplinary “walking tour” takes audiences on a 90-minute adventure throughout the Main-Dempster neighborhood of Evanston, and recreates various moments from Lewis Carroll’s beloved Alice stories. Fusing together traditional […]
Hilary Williams loves horror. In the dim light of the bar at the Den Theatre (where she is performing in Wildclaw Theatre’s production of Second Skin) her eyes grow wide when I ask […]
