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Review: In Young People’s Theatre’s Last Stop on Market Street, a Boy Named CJ Learns About Life and Friendship

Last Stop on Market Street, now being staged by Young People’s Theatre of Chicago, is a children’s story with lively music and song and dance performed by six talented actors. […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 13, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: At Steppenwolf Theatre, The Thanksgiving Play Fails at Satire, Succeeds at Silliness

    The American theater business and society in general offer plenty of opportunity for criticism of “wokeness” and efforts to satisfy all sides—both in the arts, in other nonprofits and in […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 11, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: An Explosive World Premiere Tells a Little-Known Milwaukee Story of Anti-Immigrant Hostility

    A world premiere by Martin Zimmerman chronicles one of Milwaukee’s least-known historical events: the 1917 bombing of a police department and the subsequent indictment of imprisoned Italian immigrants who were […]

  • Anne Siegel
  • May 8, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Judgment Day Is a Laugh-Out-Loud Comedy with Heart

    Jason Alexander makes his Chicago stage debut in the world premiere comedy Judgment Day at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel. In The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare through May 26, 2024. Photo by Liz Lauren.

    Sammy (Jason Alexander) and Father Michael (Daniel Breaker) sit in a car with binoculars. It’s dark, and they are on a stakeout outside a bar—anxious to find anything they can […]

  • Lauren Katz
  • May 6, 2024
    • Beyond , Event , Review , Stages , Talk show

    Webby Award-Winning #SistersInLaw Podcast Moves from the Ether to the Theater

    Four seasoned legal minds – all MSNBC commentators—have joined forces, like a Justice League of all Wonder Women, to discuss America’s pressing legal issues with plenty of fodder in this […]

  • Karin McKie
  • May 5, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Women Beware Women (and Everyone Else) in Blue In The Right Way’s Debut Production

    Chicago’s newest theater, Blue In The Right Way, is staging its inaugural production, Women Beware Women, a half-modernized, half-classical mashup of Thomas Middleton’s original work of the same name, written […]

  • Row Light
  • May 3, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Red Theater’s Hamlet Is Intimate and Text-Driven

    Ashley Fox as Hamlet. Photo Credit: Faith Decker / Wannabe Studio

    It’s the top of the first act. As the lights come down and the guards enter, those familiar with Shakespeare’s famous piece know what is about to happen. The guards […]

  • Lauren Katz
  • April 30, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Shattered Globe Theatre Reaches Euphoric Heights to Deal With Grief in Charly Evon Simpson’s Jump

    Shattered Globe Theatre is snow staging the simultaneously heartbreaking and life-affirming Jump, by Charly Evon Simpson. The play saw its world premiere with PlayMakers Repertory Company in 2019 and made […]

  • Row Light
  • April 29, 2024
    • Dance , Review , Stages

    Review: A Midsummer Journey to the Subconscious with the Joffrey Ballet

    I was not exactly expecting Puck and the other fairies when I sat down to watch the new production by the Joffrey Ballet. This Midsummer Night’s Dream is Sweden’s celebration […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • April 27, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: At Goodman Theatre, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone Portrays Black Struggles 50 Years After Emancipation

    The entire flow of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone is set in the kitchen of Seth and Bertha Holly’s boardinghouse—the heart of the home is an appropriate setting for a play that […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • April 25, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: How I Learned What I Learned by Congo Square Theatre Is Wisdom on Being Black in America

    Congo Square Theatre is celebrating a landmark anniversary of 25 years of producing and staging plays written by Black artists about the Black experience in America. Their production of August […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • April 23, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Izzard as Hamlet in a Solo Show—Madness in Great Ones Must Not Unwatched Go

    A college student returns home to find that his uncle killed his father, married his mother and wants his nephew/son out of the picture. Typical family drama. But Hamlet is […]

  • Karin McKie
  • April 23, 2024
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