Irish Theatre of Chicago will present staged readings from three emerging Irish playwrights three weekends this month at Chief O’Neill’s Pub on Elston Avenue. The plays, never before produced in […]
At the outset of Elemeno Pea, a Molly Smith-Metzler play at Citadel Theatre, there is arguing. Halfway in, there’s still arguing. The whole show centers on the tired “rich vs […]
It’s the end of the evening, the end of The Wolf at the End of the Block. The lead character, Abe (Gabriel Ruiz) is in a bar, thinking about what […]
Jennifer Haley’s very contemporary play, The Nether, is set in a world we may find all too familiar. Neither real nor unreal. Mostly virtual, in fact, rather like our social media […]
Oh, if only one could jump into the Wayback Machine into the simpler times of Nick Hornby’s 1995 novel and Stephen Frears’ 2000 movie to escape 2017’s dystopia. You can, just […]
In celebration of February’s Black History Month and Valentine’s Day, Deeply Rooted Dance Theater presents an exploration of love during its debut at the North Shore Center for the Performing […]
“Times change,” Julie’s neurotic-if-charming sister-in-law, Faye, tells her near the end of The Assembled Parties, now in its Midwest premiere at Raven Theatre. “Yes,” is Julie’s reply. “Times change and […]
Three sisters. Estranged from their climate scientist father. Their lives each upended by climate change. And dozens of other characters. Steep Theatre’s U.S. premiere of Earthquakes in London spans eras […]
It is perhaps fitting that the now final show of The Hypocrites’ season–cut short due to financial troubles–is Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer-prize-winning play, Wit. In Edson’s heartbreaking play, Dr. Vivian Bearing, […]
Have you ever worked in an office—creative or otherwise—where a bunch of young associates groused over their bosses, gossiped about their colleagues, and desperately sought promotion to the next step […]
The Harlem Renaissance was an era of great creativity in the arts that progressed through the 1920s, but the Great Depression hit many artists hard. Jobs were scarce and salaries […]
A Disappearing Number is a multi-layered, complex story of love and math over the course of a century. Timeline Theatre’s new production of the script by Complicité is mesmerizing, sometimes […]