Review: It’s a Wonderful Life As a Radio Play Remains a Holiday Must-See
Like putting up a tree and lights or baking sweet holiday treats, the holiday season in Chicago wouldn’t be the…
Review: Timeline’s Rutherford and Son, an Early Feminist Play, Lacks Bite and Energy
Rutherford and Son, a 1912 play about power and family dynamics in northern England, is distinguished partly because it’s written…
Review: 140 LBS Weighs in on a Family’s Body Dysmorphia
Susan Lieu’s solo show title is 140 LBS: How Beauty Killed My Mother, but it’s more a personal story. Directed…
Review: In Dennis Začek’s Waiting for Godot, Two Guys Are Just Hanging Out on a Country Road
Can we agree that Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett’s 1953 play about hope and the will to keep on, belongs in…
Review: A Packet of Holiness and Joy, an Hour of Curious Fun by Curious Theatre Branch
How to describe A Packet of Holiness and Joy Will Come to You? (A Fable)? It’s a funny and curious…
The Lyric’s Don Giovanni Turns the Table on Opera’s Most Infamous Sex Abuser
It may seem odd that Don Giovanni, the opera premiered by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1787, has taken on new…
Review: Sarah Vowell’s Acerbic “Past and Present” Closes Chicago Humanities Festival
Narrative nonfiction titan Sarah Vowell closed the diverse and well-curated Chicago Humanities Festival’s 30th anniversary “Power” juggernaut Sunday at Francis…
Interview: Larry Neumann Jr. Talks About Beckett, About His Acting Career and Growing Up on the South Side
Larry Neumann Jr. is known as one of Chicago’s finest character actors. I have seen him in a wide variety…
New York Theater: David Byrne’s American Utopia, Slave Play, Betrayal and More
I spent a long weekend in New York, including a meeting of the American Theater Critics Association. Busy days but…
Review: Silent Theatre Company’s Incomplete Conversations is an Immersive Funeral Drama
You might expect Silent Theatre Company’s Incomplete Conversations, now receiving its world premiere production at the Tapestry Fellowship Church, to…
Review: The Suffrage Plays Celebrate Centennial of Women’s Voting Rights
Tennessee became the 38th state to ratify the 19th amendment on August 18, 1920, the last of the required 36…
Review: In Latin History for Morons, Leguizamo Focuses on the Next Generation
“I grew up without seeing people who looked like me on screen, on stage, or in textbooks. Latinx people have…
