Chicago Ideas Week in Review: Radical Creators and Tackling Taboos
If you haven’t been to Chicago Ideas Week yet, you’re missing out. I’ve been lucky enough to attend for the…
If you haven’t been to Chicago Ideas Week yet, you’re missing out. I’ve been lucky enough to attend for the…
The three plays I saw last weekend in New York provided insights into how theater works, and emphasized language and…
I really like Jen Silverman. Steppenwolf just premiered her strange buddy comedy The Roommate after a successful run at the Humana Festival.…
Tom Stoppard stirs up his personal brew of European political ideology, love, death and pop culture in his 2006 play,…
There are certain experiences, certain accomplishments that, understandably, pop up on most people’s Bucket Lists, those to-do lists of what…
Zürich by Amelia Roper at Steep Theatre is a tantalizing 105 minutes of tension, laced with some smart dialogue. Directed by Brad…
About 20 minutes into Nell Gwynn, the American premiere of Jessica Swale’s comedy now on at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, it’s…
Mendoza, a thrillingly raw and earthy adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, is being presented this week at Goodman Theatre in collaboration…
What makes one a victim? And what moral superiority does a victim have over their aggressor? When is one’s humanity…
Theater history, immigration, censorship and persecution are some of the ingredients in Paula Vogel’s compelling play, Indecent, which just opened…
When most people hear J.M. Barrie, they think Peter Pan: flying children, one-handed pirates, and ticking crocodiles. I should know, I’ve…
Writer/composer/performer David Cale spent a great deal of his childhood looking for places to escape to, which was not always…
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