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Review: At Writers Theatre, Brian Friel’s Translations Is Full of Heart

Full Cast of TRANSLATIONS at Writers Theatre. Photo Credit: Michael Brosilow

Yolland (Erik Hellman) and Maire (Tyler Meredith) have left the dance and come running into the clearing. As they try to catch their breath, they realize they are still holding […]

  • Lauren Katz
  • April 14, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Suzan-Lori Parks’ The Book of Grace—Beautifully Acted but a Mixed Bag at Steppenwolf Theatre

    Suzan-Lori Parks is known for writing plays about the inner lives of Black Americans. The Book of Grace is a companion to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Topdog/Underdog, where brothers Lincoln and Booth live out […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • April 8, 2025
    • Dance , Review , Review , Stages

    Review: Giordano Dance Chicago’s Soaring Is a Magical Journey of Life, Love, and Celebration

    Giordano Dance Chicago is our homegrown ensemble, and their Friday performance was unlike any other Giordano show I have covered. Soaring: Life, Light, and Legacy is a tribute to artistic director Nan […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • April 6, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Porchlight’s Titanique Sparkles Like That Diamond (You Know the One)

    Not since gin and vermouth first met ice has any cocktail sparkled so purely, so perfectly, so powerfully as Porchlight Theatre’s crazy collision with a fateful iceberg, Titanique, now running […]

  • Doug Mose
  • April 3, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Onstage Talent Battles Backstage Bungles in Dreamgirls at the Studebaker Theater

    Last December, Seven Thirty Theatre and Katydid Productions presented a production of Dreamgirls—the great American musical about the Motown experience—at the Studebaker Theater. The show was well received and so […]

  • Doug Mose
  • April 3, 2025
    • Comedy , Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Benny Bingo & the Evangelikids Is an H-E-Double Hockey Sticks of a Good Time at Annoyance Theatre

    Any child who grew up in a household where Zoom was considered too scandalous probably spent their limited TV time watching shows in which a cast of precocious kids—accompanied by […]

  • Anthony Cusumano
  • April 3, 2025
    • Opera , Review , Stages

    Review: The Lyric Opera Sharpens the Cutting Edge with The Listeners

    The Lyric Opera of Chicago is refreshing classical music by bringing in newer works. The Listeners is written by Missy Mazzoli with a libretto by Royce Vavrek based on the […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • April 1, 2025
    • Music , Pop/Rock , Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Sunny Afternoon at Chicago Shakes Is a Rock and Roll Fantasy

    They were the most English of British Invasion bands. While other English musicians adopted American styles and turned their backs on their own musical traditions, the Kinks doubled down, writing […]

  • June Sawyers
  • March 31, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Impostor Theatre’s Helena & Hermia in the Enamored Odyssey Parodies Love’s Whimsies

    A musical version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Helena & Hermia in the Enamored Odyssey whirls and bumbles us through love’s entanglements. What sets this production by the Impostors […]

  • Anthony Neri
  • March 31, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Stage Left Theatre’s The Distrikt of Lake Michigun Plays With the History of Streeterville and Its Rogue Namesake at Water Tower Place

    Stage Left Theatre, a Chicago company with 40 years of history, is redefining storefront theater with its new production, The Distrikt of Lake Michigun, in an empty retail space on the […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • March 30, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Invictus Theatre’s The Winter’s Tale Asks If Time Can Heal All Wounds

    The Winter’s Tale is an unusual story, with two acts so different in tone that the play can be difficult to produce. Fortunately, Invictus succeeds. Under Charles Askenaizer’s direction, Winter’s […]

  • Devony Hof
  • March 23, 2025
    • Comedy , Review , Stages

    Review: U Should C Happy 2 B Here at the Annoyance Theatre

    In most fields, calling someone or something “dumb” is an insult. Clients don’t want a “dumb” lawyer to handle their case. Authors aren’t going to include a critic’s “This book […]

  • Anthony Cusumano
  • March 22, 2025
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