Review: A Woman of Means and the Women She Loves in I Know My Own Heart
Perhaps best known as the writer behind 2015’s Room, the film that won Brie Larson a Best Actress Oscar, Emma…
Review: Windy City Playhouse Stages Another Must-See with Noises Off
Last year, Windy City Playhouse, the storefront theater company on West Irving Park Road on the north side, debuted a…
At the Den Theatre, Charlie Johnson Reads All of Proust Will Make You Want to Do the Same
Madelines. Military service. Marriages and family. Swann’s Way to Time Regained. An older man decides he will read Marcel Proust’s iconic novel. As…
Review: As Chicago’s Holiday Traditions Go, A Christmas Carol is Among the Best
Chicago loves its holiday traditions. From classics like the windows and the Walnut Room all dressed up at Field’s/Macy’s to…
Review: Capra Classic as Radio Play in American Blues Theater’s Wonderfully Festive It’s a Wonderful Life
I should disclose at the outset that American Blues Theater’s 17th annual production of It’s a Wonderful Life: Live in…
Review: The Woman in Black at the Royal George Theatre is Guaranteed to Give You the Chills
The Woman in Black, a spooky Christmas transplant from the UK, is the second-longest running play on the West End…
Review: Miss Saigon at the Cadillac Palace Is the Epic Broadway Hit, Helicopter and All
Inspired by Giacomo Puccini’s massively influential Madame Butterfly, Boublil and Schönberg’s equally successful Miss Saigon originally premiered in 1989 in London’s West End.…
Get Out the Vote with Fight Night at Chicago Shakes
Belgium’s Ontroerend Goed (“Good Moving”) has a distinct outside vantage point to dissect the fraught American electoral system. Their limited…
Silence Is Worth a Thousand Words in Small Mouth Sounds at A Red Orchid Theatre
In the madness of our daily lives, we may wish that we could abandon our devices and spend a week…
Review: Maria Callas Comes to Life in Timeline’s Impressive Master Class
It’s not likely (though perhaps possible) that director Nick Bowling and music director Doug Peck knew when they selected Terrence…
Review: In the Canyon by Calamity West Is a Complex, Careful Picture of a Nightmare Future
For me, the worst nightmares have always been the ones closest to reality. Aliens, ghosts, and monsters don’t scare me…
There’s Little Brotherly Love But Plenty of Poteen in The Lonesome West by AstonRep
The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh is a story of two Irish brothers, locked in a codependent relationship of affection and…
