Review: Witch by Artistic Home Uses a 17th Century Story to Question Our Hope for the Future
“Where do we go from here? Can we imagine a better world? Or is it time to burn it all…
Dialogs: The Fire This Time with Roxane Gay at the Chicago Humanities Festival
The Chicago Humanities Festival hosted writer Roxane Gay, in conversation with writer Lindsay Hunter, at the University of Chicago’s Lab…
Review: Beetlejuice Exhausts More Than It Entertains, and Audiences Don’t Seem to Mind
Like movie theater blockbusters and best-selling fiction franchises, Broadway has its own version of the audience vs. critic debate, where…
Dialogs: Airports, Origin Stories and RuPaul Unite David Sedaris and Henry Rollins
Quirky, prolific memoirist David Sedaris lived for a time in Chicago, and frequently comes back to the Windy City to…
Review: At Timeline Theatre, The Lifespan of a Fact Dramatizes a Contentious Search for Accuracy
An eager young intern for a famous magazine agrees to take on a new, fast turnaround assignment: fact-checking an important…
Review: At Madison’s Forward Theater, the Cooks Are Still Serving Time at Clyde’s
At first glance, one may have trouble seeing the beauty in Clyde’s, penned by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage. In…
Review: Steppenwolf’s POTUS Follows a Manic Day in the Life of the Real White House VIPs—the Female Staff
This review and the final dialog are written by theater critics Nancy Bishop and Kim Campbell. POTUS is ostensibly a…
Dialogs: Considering Contagion with Maddow and Schama at Chicago Humanities Festival Events
This autumn’s Chicago Humanities Festival is chock-a-block with notable writers. That focus is normal for one of the Windy City’s…
Review: Chicago Shakespeare Sparks Love and Joy With Twelfth Night
“If music be the food of love, play on.” (Duke Orsino, Act I, Twelfth Night) At its center, Twelfth Night is a story about…
Review: Not Much Warmth in This Chilly Touring Production of Company
The American musical theater has been graced with another revival of Company, Stephen Sondheim’s and George Furth’s 1970 musical about…
Review: Teatro Vista’s ¡Bernarda! Sizzles in a Time of Mourning With Sisters Behaving Badly
The house of Bernarda Alba has had a makeover. If you are familiar with the 1936 play by Federico Garcia Lorca,…
The Return of Ringling (Nov. 3-5)—A Chat with Circus Artist Jan Damm
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey have risen from the ashes once again, rekindled. Showcasing a huge, diverse cast of…
