Review: Chicago Shakes Brings TM, a One-on-One Virtual Experience That Asks if You’re a Good Enough Person
Are you a good person? In TM, one spectator and one actor meet; the actor takes the spectator through a…
Preview: Lifeline’s Fillet of Solo Festival Celebrates Personal—and Virtual—Storytelling
Lifeline Theatre has launched its 25th annual Fillet of Solo Festival for a three-week run of virtual storytelling by some…
Review: Witness Binds a WW2 Tragedy With Present-Day Anti-Semitism Through Inventive Virtual Theater
The tragedy of the MS St. Louis, the 1939 ship bound for the U.S. with 937 European Jews on board,…
Review: Eclectic Theatre Adapts A Christmas Carol as Audio Play (With Visuals)
A new audio-play-with-visuals by Eclectic Full Contact Theatre has joined the holiday season array of productions of Charles Dickens’ A…
Review: In Manual Cinema’s Christmas Carol, Aunt Trudy and the Puppets Bring a Message of Hope for the Holidays
If you like Dickens’ A Christmas Carol performed by shadow puppets with special effects from an overhead projector, Manual Cinema has…
Review: Definition Theatre Streams a Dystopian History and Bleak Future in America v.2.1
At a time when we should all be thinking about how America’s history might be taught in all its blood…
Review: Broken Nose Theatre’s Audio Play, Kingdom, Tells a Black LGBTQ Story With Heart
Arthur and Henry are long time partners; they’ve lived together for 40 years in Orlando, in the shadow of the…
Review: Steppenwolf Opens 2021-22 Season With Tracy Letts’ Trio of Virtual Plays Set in an Off-Kilter World
Steppenwolf Theatre adds to its Steppenwolf Now series with three short plays by Tracy Letts, available virtually through October 24.…
Review: Trap Door Theatre Devises And Away We Stared for Livestream and Recorded Viewing
Trap Door Theatre’s new production, And Away We Stared, is an example of “devised theater,” a mode of expression that’s…
Review: Goodman Theatre’s I Hate It Here Lets You Rage Against Your Own 2020 Machine
I Hate It Here: Stories From the End of the Old World is a play performed live and written as…
Review: Goodman’s Ohio State Murders Tells a Story of a Life Haunted by Echoes of Its Past
Author Suzanne Alexander’s life is haunted by her past. With Jacqueline Williams playing Suzanne in this 1992 Adrienne Kennedy play,…
Review: Goodman Begins Live Series With Thrilling Drama The Sound Inside
Bella likes her solitude. It’s a familiar feeling for some of us, as the pandemic revealed true differences between introverts…
