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Review: Two Sisters Search for Joy Through Improv and a Little Magic in Rabbits in Their Pockets at Lifeline Theatre

Two sisters. Ash, the elder, has a professional job with a good income. Harley, the younger sister, inherits the family home when their father dies. “Probably because he thought I’d […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • September 16, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: The First Lady of Television at Northlight Theatre Is Sitcom History and the Story of the Mid-Century Red Scare

    If you have tickets for Northlight Theatre’s The First Lady of Television, you may think you are going to see a comedy about the beloved Molly Goldberg and her 1950s […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • September 13, 2025
    • Comedy , Magic , Review , Stages

    Review: Fall in Love with the Cosmic Romantics at the Den Theatre

    When Elizabeth Messick, the more attractive half of the magical duo the Cosmic Romantics—that’s straight out of her partner Eric Thirstin’s introduction, not my own editorializing—first appears on stage during […]

  • Anthony Cusumano
  • September 10, 2025
    • Classical , Music , Opera , Stages

    Review: Ryan Center Artists Light Up Sunday in the Park With Lyric at Millennium Park

    Sunday, September 7, was a memorable evening. The Corn Moon waxed full, hung in the clear over the lake. The temperature was cool with a nip of autumn to come. […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • September 9, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: American Blues Theater’s Things With Friends Is an Irritating Mess

    Things With Friends, the newest play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Kristoffer Diaz, directed by Dexter Bullard, makes its debut at American Blues Theater. It’s a surrealist, climate anxiety comedy of […]

  • Adam Kaz
  • September 9, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Eclectic Full Contact Theatre’s Refracted Light Tackles Mental Health in Family Drama

    Jamie Lee as Penny Harris and Charles Schoenherr as Dr Daker. Photo Credit: Paul Chakrin

    “Whenever I walk down a street, I find myself fascinated by the glow of windows and the curtains drawn across them, knowing that behind each one lives a world of […]

  • Lauren Katz
  • September 9, 2025
    • Feature , Front page , Stages , Storefront

    Staging Survival: How Chicago Theaters Are Responding to the Pressures of COVID and Authoritarianism

    This is the second in our series of articles on The Art of Survival, in which we explore how small Chicago arts organizations are surviving post-COVID and weathering the anti-humanist […]

  • Karin McKie
  • September 6, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Strawdog Theatre’s The F*ck House Explores the Hazards and Absurdity of Being 13-Year-Old Girls

    The F*ck House, now being staged by Strawdog Theatre, is a comic coming-of-age story about two 13-year old girls. The world premiere by playwright Susan H. Pak brings us a […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • September 2, 2025
    • Fiction , Lit , Reviews , Stages

    Review: Comedy and Tragedy in Chicago’s Storefront Theater World—The Very Last Production of King Lear by Richard Engling

    Richard Engling is a Chicago theater guy—actor, director, artistic director. He’s taken his years of experience as the raw material for a trilogy of novels about life in Chicago storefront […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • August 25, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Incandescent Performances Highlight How to Transcend a Happy Marriage at Redtwist Theatre

    Redtwist Theatre is high-kicking and playing on the edge for Season 21, themed “Defiant Femmes.” It is a timely theme and, in my opinion, needed to bolster the energy and […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • August 18, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: At Writers Theatre, Hershey Felder’s Rachmaninoff and the Tsar Brings Duality to the Stage

    Opposites may or may not attract but they can certainly produce lively theater. After years of creating solo portraits of famous composers—Gershwin, Chopin, Debussy among them—Hershey Felder pairs Sergei Rachmaninoff […]

  • Susan Lieberman
  • August 17, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Broadway in Chicago’s Dungeons and Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern Is a Night of Uproarious Laughter and Fun

    Cast of Twenty-Sided Tavern. Photo credit: André Chung

    Our mighty heroes have started their adventure. The Warrior (Madelyn Murphy), Mage (Diego F. Salinas), and Rogue (Anjali Bhimani). The goal? To save the Forgotten Realms. Projections designers Derek Christiansen […]

  • Lauren Katz
  • August 17, 2025
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