Preview: NERD ALERT!! Bring Your Friends and Your Pets for the Virtual Chicago Nerd Comedy Fest
Way back when, when I was, I guess, a “cub” writer, I was unofficially assigned the “nerd beat.” This was…
Review: CST’s Audio Offerings Twelfth Night and Measure for Measure Present the Music of the Meter
Chicago Shakespeare Theater presents two 100-minute productions on its Chicago ShakesSTREAM platform through May 16: Twelfth Night and Measure for…
Review: Discourse Without Grammar Displays Trap Door’s Ingenuity in Performance Art
Matei Vişniec’s plays are a bit bewildering and disorienting. They‘re theater of the absurd with a twist. But Trap Door…
Dialogs: Should Social Media Be Regulated? CHF Panel Considers a Thorny Question
Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are private entities even though we may think of them as similar to…
Review: Did You Miss Smokefall the First Time? Catch Goodman’s 2013 Story of Love and Pain Streaming Now
Violet is pregnant with twin boys, due to arrive soon. She talks and sings to them constantly, introducing them to…
Review: Remy Bumppo’s Radio Play—Artist Descending a Staircase—Is a Tom Stoppard Delight
Modern art, death and trippy art talk, as only Tom Stoppard can write it. That’s the best reason to listen…
Review: Another Day’s Begun Recasts Thornton Wilder’s Our Town as a Play That Speaks to Our Time
Another Day’s Begun: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in the 21st Century By Howard Sherman Metheun Drama, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Like…
Review: Strawdog’s How Do We Navigate Space? Choreographs Chicagoans in Pandemic Living
Strawdog Theatre’s final entry in their season of resilience celebrates Chicagoans and how they are blundering through and surviving a…
Review: Steppenwolf’s Duchess! Duchess! Duchess! Skirts Issues in Favor of Entertainment
Many Americans seem to have a British-Royals obsession that has never made sense to me. Steppenwolf Theatre’s newest online production…
Review: Theatre in the Dark Creates Audio Theater Version of Melville’s Great White Whale
It begins with the familiar refrain, arguably the three most famous words in American literature. “Call me Ishmael.” But the voice…
Review: Lauren Gunderson’s The Catastrophist Dramatizes Viruses and a Scientist’s Life
The Catastrophist, by Lauren M. Gunderson, succeeds as a story that informs us about science and tears at our hearts…
Review: National Theatre’s Julie Provides a Fascinating Glimpse Into the Talents of Golden Globe Nominee Vanessa Kirby
Review by Brooks Whitlock British actress Vanessa Kirby is going to be nominated for an Oscar this year for her…
