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Review: Lettie at Victory Gardens Theater Is Heartfelt, If Inconsistent

Lettie

The promo image for Lettie, the new original work by Boo Killebrew now on at Victory Gardens Theater, features Caroline Neff in the title role, wielding a welder’s iron and clad […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • April 16, 2018
    • Art & Museums , Beyond , Dance , Museum , Museums , Music , Review , Stages , Theater

    Oprah and Oppression in MCA’s Poor People’s TV Room

    Oprah is a leitmotif in the multimedia movement narrative Poor People’s TV Room, at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art from April 12-15. United States Artist Fellow Okwui Okpokwasili and director-designer Peter […]

  • Karin McKie
  • April 15, 2018
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Ingredients Don’t Add Up to Much for Refuge Theatre Project’s The Spitfire Grill

    Spitfire Grill

    Founded in 2014, the relatively new Refuge Theatre Project aspires to bring musical theater to creative spaces, accessible to broad audiences. It’s a commendable mission, and one the crowded Chicago […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • April 3, 2018
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    An Enemy of the People Is a Well-Dressed Meditation on Politics and Human Nature

    When I described the synopsis of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People to my date, he groaned. Politics, environmental crisis, public figures and large companies taking advantage of the little guy… […]

  • Emma Terhaar
  • March 28, 2018
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Memes Become Scenes in Theater Wit’s Delicious Women Laughing Alone with Salad

    Playwright Sheila Callaghan (writer/producer of Showtime’s Shameless) morphs memes into scenes in the delicious Chicago premiere of Women Laughing Alone with Salad. Guy (Japhet Balaban) is EveryGuy, a dope-smoking dilettante […]

  • Karin McKie
  • March 28, 2018
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: What Is and What Could Be at Court Theatre’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?

    Guess Who's Coming To Dinner

    Last year, when it turned 50, the Stanley Kramer film Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? was added to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, marking it for preservation […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • March 27, 2018
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    The Importance of Not Being Earnest Absent in Walkabout’s The Brink

    Writing teachers ask their fledgling essayists to answer the question: “So what? Why write this? What’s the point?” Theater artists also should have a similar rubric for plays. Walkabout’s music, […]

  • Karin McKie
  • March 20, 2018
    • Beyond , Event , Review , Stages

    Review: Neil Tobin’s Near Death Experience at Rosehill Cemetery Mildly Amuses

    Neil Tobin is a warm, funny man. He’s welcoming and doesn’t have a hard time putting people at ease. It’s a good quality to have in general, but especially important […]

  • Marielle Bokor
  • March 14, 2018
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Lookingglass Theatre’s Plantation! Views Reparations Through Farcical Lens

    Plantation!, now receiving its world premiere in a production at Lookingglass Theatre directed by David Schwimmer, is a comedic take on race and reparations in the 21st century. Written by […]

  • Brent Eickhoff
  • March 13, 2018
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: (Wo)Mano a (Wo)Mano in Chicago Shakespeare’s Mary Stuart

    Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s Mary Stuart aligns with the zeitgeist of today’s #TimesUp moment, where women seize the front and center, onstage and off, trying to harness and wield what power […]

  • Karin McKie
  • March 6, 2018
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: At Windy City Playhouse, Southern Gothic Invites You to the Party

    Southern Gothic Windy City Playhouse

    RI was supposed to see Southern Gothic a week ago, but life got in the way and I didn’t make it then. Thankfully, the team at Windy City Playhouse (3014 W. […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • February 25, 2018
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Six Corners, A Quintessential Chicago Story, Bad Cops and All

    Keith Huff’s Six Corners, the world premiere now at American Blues Theater, is quintessentially Chicago. It’s the story of a pair of shady cops, not always on the up and […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • February 25, 2018
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