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Review: Steppenwolf’s You Will Get Sick Is a Comic and Poignant Portrayal of Life and How People Endure

Playwright Noah Diaz wrote You Will Get Sick in 2018, but its first production was delayed until 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ironically, the wisdom or conspiracy was that […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • June 16, 2025
    • Broadway , Music , Review , Stages

    Review: Liz Callaway’s To Steve With Love Celebrates Sondheim at the Studebaker Theater

    Liz Callaway came home last night to deliver a love letter. Not a private note, but a public tribute on the Studebaker Theater stage, where she sang the works of […]

  • Doug Mose
  • June 15, 2025
    • Dance , Review , Stages , Talk show

    Review: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Is a Gorgeous and Trippy Journey by Joffrey Ballet

    The Joffrey Ballet is known for its full-scale productions, which are cinematic in their staging. Atonement combined film noir with period piece drama. Studies in Blue was filled with dreamy […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • June 14, 2025
    • Broadway , Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Tony-Winning Kimberly Akimbo Brings Its Busy Plot, Poignant Moments to CIBC Theatre

    On the heels of the 2025 Tony Awards, where the delightful and surprisingly touching Maybe Happy Ending won the American Theater Wing’s award for Best New Musical, Chicago welcomes the […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • June 13, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Chicago Shakespeare’s 42 Balloons Is Lighter-Than-Air Entertainment

    Move over, Marilyn McCoo… step aside, Nena… there’s a new balloon song in the air. A whole bunch of ’em, actually, at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where they’re producing the […]

  • Doug Mose
  • June 13, 2025
    • Comedy , Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Dial H for Hilarity at Annoyance Theatre’s Hitch*Cocktails

    While Hitch*Cocktails has been a staple of the Annoyance Theatre’s lineup for over a decade, the team behind Chicago’s most frighteningly funny drinking game is raising the stakes with the […]

  • Anthony Cusumano
  • June 9, 2025
    • Comedy , Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Strong Performances Elevate Matt & Ben at Jarvis Square Theater

    Though their earliest acting credits date back to the 1980s, it’s hard to argue that 1997 wasn’t the true launch of Matt Damon’s and Ben Affleck’s careers. Both featured in […]

  • Anthony Cusumano
  • June 5, 2025
    • Opera , Review , Stages

    Review: She Who Dared by Chicago Opera Theater Tells the Story Behind a Movement From Spark to Flame

    I asked one of my Gen Z friends if they knew about the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Their quizzical expression hit me like a lead weight. The history of the Civil […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • June 5, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Red Orchid’s Six Men Dressed Like Joseph Stalin Is Drama, History and a Love Letter to Theater

    Last week, the Russian government erected a new statue of Joseph Stalin in Moscow. Apparently Vladimir Putin is resurrecting the image of the brutal dictator. And this week, a Chicago […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • June 3, 2025
    • Circus , Preview , Stages , Theater , Theater Festival

    Preview: Physical Theater Festival to Feature Local Talent Plus Global Companies June 2-8 at Theater Wit

    Next week Physical Theater Festival Chicago presents its annual weeklong exploration of physical theater from around the world. This year there’s a local twist. The festival, which runs June 2-8 […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 31, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: First Floor Theater’s Evanston Salt Costs Rising Borrows a Lot and Reveals Little

    First Floor Theater brings something strange but not altogether original with its debut of Evanston Salt Costs Rising, written by Succession writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist Will Arbery and directed […]

  • Adam Kaz
  • May 29, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Beckett’s Endgame at Facility Theatre Is a Study in Inertia

    People who are familiar with Samuel Beckett’s work won’t be surprised by their frustration in trying to identify a clear meaning from any of his plays, including Endgame. This faithful […]

  • Anthony Neri
  • May 28, 2025
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