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Review: Ego Death Theatre’s Days of Rage Is Ferocious, Funny, and Heart-Wrenchingly Human

Ego Death Theatre Collective successfully hits the mark with Days of Rage by Steven Levenson. A compelling script, following a group of young radicals who are willing to do anything […]

  • Erin Ryan
  • November 9, 2025
    • Dance , Review , Stages

    Review: Chicago Repertory Ballet Brings the Drama Before the Balcony with The Capulets

    The Capulets is a new ballet created and directed by Wade Schaaf, artistic director of Chicago Repertory Ballet. This world premiere is a multimedia collaboration with fantastic projection design by […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • November 9, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Friends with Guns by A Short Leap Theatre Finds Sparks in a Tricky Conversation

    Friends with Guns, written by Stephanie Allison Walker and directed by Nathan Dale Short, is a provocative play that explores both sides of one of the most controversial debates happening […]

  • Erin Ryan
  • November 9, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Superior Donuts by Artistic Home Is Warm-Hearted and Entertaining But Needs an Update

    Tracy Letts’ 2008 play Superior Donuts is a story about friendship between two unlikely souls—with a good dose of violence added. The story is set in an Uptown donut shop […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • November 8, 2025
    • Dance , Review , Stages

    Review: The Joffrey Ballet Delivers Classical and Soul/Funk Ballet in Matters of the Heart

    One of the things I love most about humanity is that there are so many paths in tune with spiritual matters. I am not talking about religion. I am thinking […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • November 8, 2025
    • Opera , Review , Stages

    Review: Lyric Opera Stages a Double Bill of Love, Passion, and Rage With Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci

    The Lyric Opera of Chicago gives us a fall doubleheader with two classic Italian operas rooted in the verismo tradition. Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana (1890) and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci (1892) […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • November 4, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Family Secrets and Lies Are the Raw Material for Four Places by 4 Chairs Theatre

    Four Places is a tense family drama, played out over a lunch conversation between two adult children with their mother. The play by Joel Drake Johnson is now being staged […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • October 28, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Kokandy’s Jekyll & Hyde Makes Its Captivating Return to the Chicago Stage

    The definitive metaphor for the duality of mankind, the torrid tale of Jekyll and Hyde has been familiar to lovers of literature for nearly 140 years. Adapted for the stage […]

  • Anthony Cusumano
  • October 28, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: It’s a Revival! Music Theater Works Revisits Godspell Over 50 Years Later

    The musical Godspell was a colossal hit off-Broadway, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by John Michael Tebelak. It was 1971, and the news trumpeted stories about […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • October 27, 2025
    • Classical , Music , Opera , Review , Stages

    Review: Chicago Opera Theater Gives a Delightful Performance of Shakespearean Opera Arias and Rarely Heard Gems from the Bard

    Peter Morgan, Anna Laurenzo, and Meghan Kasanders. Yasuko Oura on piano. Photo by Michael Brosilow

    The Chicago Opera Theater (COT) presented Shakespeare Sings last weekend, an excellent concert of arias from operas by Verdi, Wagner, Britten, and other composers whose works are performed less frequently. […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • October 22, 2025
    • Puppet theater , Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Rough House Theater’s Horror Event, House of the Exquisite Corpse, Shocks and Astounds

    Room 4: BLOOD AND MEMORY; Creators: Chih-Jou Cheng and Charlie Malave; Puppeteer: Tia Pinson

    It’s officially that time of year. The temperature is cooling down, the sun is setting earlier, and the spooky, Halloween vibe is starting to take over. If this is the […]

  • Lauren Katz
  • October 21, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review:  Babes With Blades Hits The Mark With a Futuristic Story of How to Get Along in Dystopia

    The lights come up and a fight begins. A Recruit chooses to fight an officer as a test of her fitness to join the Army. Members of the Army look […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • October 20, 2025
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