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Review: Sam Shepard, an Unreliable Narrator of His Own Life, Gets a New Biography by Robert Greenfield

It’s appropriate that True West: Sam Shepard’s Life, Work and Times by Robert Greenfield ends with the 2019 Broadway staging of True West,…

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • June 2, 2023
  • Art & Museums, Event, Feature, Stages

Dispatch: Socrates Found Not Guilty in the Trial of the Sesquibimillennium

The People of Athens vs. Socrates, perhaps the most famous trial in history, took place in the year 399BCE. The…

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 24, 2023
  • Stages, Theater

Review: Makes Me Wanna Shout! Court Theatre Presents The Gospel at Colonus—Oedipus Redeemed

Something about the sound of a really good gospel singer makes me want to tap my foot or clap along.…

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • May 23, 2023
  • Stages, Storefront, Theater

Review: In Trap Door’s Dark Comedy, Bowie in Warsaw, a Strangler Prowls the City But the Starman Is Present Only in Spirit

Bowie in Warsaw isn’t really a play for David Bowie fans but it is an example of Trap Door Theatre’s ability…

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 22, 2023
  • Stages, Storefront, Theater

Review: Arthur Miller’s The Crucible Proves Both Historic and Prescient at Invictus Theatre

Religious and moral hypocrisy is a constant theme in the timeline of American history. There must always be an enemy…

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • May 22, 2023
  • Stages, Theater

Review: A Great Cast Lifts The Whistleblower at Theater Wit

What if you told the truth to everyone—friends, family, people that you screwed over? Playwright Itamar Moses (The Band’s Visit)…

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • May 20, 2023
  • Stages, Storefront, Theater

Review: Teatro Vista’s The Dream King Takes Us on a Magical Musical Silent Adventure

In The Dream King by Teatro Vista, creator Marvin Quijada as Sam performs a magical if familiar story in movement and original…

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 19, 2023
  • Stages, Storefront, Theater

Review: Lightning Strikes With The October Storm in Raven Theatre’s 40th Season Finale

The October Storm is the second in the Grand Boulevard Trilogy by playwright Joshua Allen. It is rare that I…

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • May 19, 2023
  • Stages, Storefront, Theater

Review: Gay Couple With a Son Emigrate to Singapore—With Consequences— in Tango at Pride Arts

Kenneth and Liam are a couple who have been together for years. They have an adopted son, 12-year-old Jayden. And…

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 17, 2023
  • Interviews, Stages, Talk show

Dialogs: The Law, Quantum Computing, and Sarajevo Fiction Highlight CHF’s Spring Lecture Series

Illinois is the first state to end book bans, and the Chicago Humanities Festival is the city’s premiere forum for…

  • Karin McKie
  • May 15, 2023
  • Stages, Theater

Review: MotherFreakingHood! Is a Smart and Hilarious Musical at the Venus Cabaret Theater

The musical is alive and well and takes aim at millennial motherhood in all of its glory. It is so…

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • May 15, 2023
  • Stages, Theater

Review: Stage Left Asks Hard Questions About Work and Pay in World Premiere of In the Back on the Floor

Back in the day, solidarity and unions meant protection and fair wages. A person could own their home, travel, have…

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • May 13, 2023
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