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Review: Otherworld Theatre’s Prospera: A Sci-Fi Retelling Imagines a New World But Gets Too Complicated

Prospera: A Sci-Fi Retelling is a fanciful but complicated story in its new production by Otherworld Theatre. The play is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s late play, The Tempest, but you […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • January 20, 2026
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Green Corridors at Trap Door Theatre Tells a Ukrainian Playwright’s  Story of War and Displacement

    Green Corridors focuses on the stories of four Ukrainian women and other citizens trying to escape the brutality of Russian attacks on Ukraine in the war that Russia started in […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • January 17, 2026
    • Children's theater , Review , Stages , Storefront

    Review: A Year With Frog and Toad Delights Kids and Parents at Young People’s Theatre  

    A Year With Frog and Toad may not be a holiday play but it is a celebration of friendship throughout the seasons, from the moment the two friends wake from […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • December 8, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: At Trap Door Theatre, A Devil Comes to Town Celebrates Writers  and Their Passion to Be Published

    It’s a Swiss town full of writers, where everyone is obsessed with getting published and winning a new literary prize. A Publisher arrives, eager to find new works to be […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • November 22, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Tin Drum Theatre’s The Unseen Dazzles and Disturbs

    It seems there’s a goldrush for plays people sense might be prescient or “timely.” Which in 2025 means shows that predict devastation and authoritarian nightmares. Tin Drum Theatre Company’s The […]

  • Adam Kaz
  • November 12, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Ego Death Theatre’s Days of Rage Is Ferocious, Funny, and Heart-Wrenchingly Human

    Ego Death Theatre Collective successfully hits the mark with Days of Rage by Steven Levenson. A compelling script, following a group of young radicals who are willing to do anything […]

  • Erin Ryan
  • November 9, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Friends with Guns by A Short Leap Theatre Finds Sparks in a Tricky Conversation

    Friends with Guns, written by Stephanie Allison Walker and directed by Nathan Dale Short, is a provocative play that explores both sides of one of the most controversial debates happening […]

  • Erin Ryan
  • November 9, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Superior Donuts by Artistic Home Is Warm-Hearted and Entertaining But Needs an Update

    Tracy Letts’ 2008 play Superior Donuts is a story about friendship between two unlikely souls—with a good dose of violence added. The story is set in an Uptown donut shop […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • November 8, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Family Secrets and Lies Are the Raw Material for Four Places by 4 Chairs Theatre

    Four Places is a tense family drama, played out over a lunch conversation between two adult children with their mother. The play by Joel Drake Johnson is now being staged […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • October 28, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Kokandy’s Jekyll & Hyde Makes Its Captivating Return to the Chicago Stage

    The definitive metaphor for the duality of mankind, the torrid tale of Jekyll and Hyde has been familiar to lovers of literature for nearly 140 years. Adapted for the stage […]

  • Anthony Cusumano
  • October 28, 2025
    • Preview , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Preview: Courtney vs Cancer Is Comical and Courageous

    Brave. Poignant. Inspirational. These are the default adjectives writers are supposed to use when describing an autobiographical narrative centered around a cancer battle. And while they all certainly apply to […]

  • Anthony Cusumano
  • October 24, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Meet the Ageless, Timeless, Deathless Witches of Bushwick in Lazy Susan Theatre’s Wyrd

    Three ageless witchy sisters live together in a basement apartment in Bushwick, a Brooklyn neighborhood something like Edgewater or Andersonville. Wyrd is a 2018 play written by Matt Minnicino that […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • October 13, 2025
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