Review: Dear Brutus Is a Solid Return for a J.M. Barrie Classic
When most people hear J.M. Barrie, they think Peter Pan: flying children, one-handed pirates, and ticking crocodiles. I should know, I’ve…
David Cale at Goodman Theatre: Lyrical Storytelling and Songs That Feel Like Poetry
Writer/composer/performer David Cale spent a great deal of his childhood looking for places to escape to, which was not always…
White Rabbits and Purple Lines: Upended Productions’ Inventive Alice Turns Evanston into Wonderland
This remount of Upended’s multi-disciplinary “walking tour” takes audiences on a 90-minute adventure throughout the Main-Dempster neighborhood of Evanston, and…
Review: These Shining Lives Gets Lost in the Moment at Three Crows Theatre
I love fantasy worlds, fairy tales and impossible things coming to life in the media I consume. I’m a fan…
Pirandello’s Naked at Trap Door: The Tragedy of a Woman Whose Fate Is in Her Own Hands
It’s Rome in 1922. In his play Naked, Luigi Pirandello, the Nobel Prize-winning author, concocts a puzzling tangle of death…
Shaw’s Wit Shines Through the Silliness in City Lit’s Arms and the Man
City Lit Theater’s new production of George Bernard Shaw’s 1894 play, Arms and the Man, takes full advantage of its broad…
Review: Music of the Baroque Wowed on Saturday Night
Leave it to Jane Glover and her fairly small orchestra and chorus to give a gargantuan performance of a classical…
Persuasive Xenophobia Finds Voice in BigMouth at Chicago Shakes
Critics Kimzyn Campbell and Karin McKie jointly review BigMouth, running at Chicago Shakespeare Theater through September 22. Ticket discounts are…
Review: Tres Bandidos Reaches for the Sky and Hits the Mark
If you’re familiar with the concept of a bottle episode of a TV show, you might also know how notoriously…
A Shayna Maidel at Timeline Theatre: A Timely History Play Full of Ghosts and Terrors
The Holocaust. Armenia. Cambodia. Darfur. Bosnia. Rwanda. South Sudan. Native Americans. Rohingya. Whether or not you had family or ancestors…
Stage Shorts: Four Plays About the AIDS Crisis, Greek Tragedy, Missionaries and Swordplay in Skirts
Holding the Man Dramatizes True Story of Australian Actor’s Life With HIV Holding the Man, based on Timothy Conigrave’s memoir of the…
Manual Cinema Creates The End of TV, a Magical Performance with Actors, Puppets and Retro Tech
Every once in a while you get to see a work of theater that seems as if it could reinvent…
