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Review: Three Crows’ The Danish Play Focuses on the Life of a Poet and Resistance Heroine in WW2 Denmark

The Danish Play by Three Crows Theatre is a human and relevant story about the Danish Resistance during World War II. The anti-fascists in Denmark are a small but determined bunch […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 28, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: The Prodigal Daughter at Raven Theatre Portrays an Ambitious Young Women in 1919 Chicago

    The Prodigal Daughter, now on stage at Raven Theatre, is the third and final installment in the Grand Boulevard Trilogy by playwright Joshua Allen. The commissioned work is the third […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 24, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Lifeline Theatre’s Native Son Tells the Sad and Stirring Story of Bigger Thomas

    The tragedy of Bigger Thomas has had many iterations since Richard Wright’s novel Native Son was published in 1940. Set in 1939 Chicago, at least two film versions and several […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 20, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: A Red Orchid Theatre’s Thriller, Turret, Builds a Bunker Home from Memory

    Turret, a new show written and directed by Chicago playwright Levi Holloway, is born from a cinematic legacy of horror, apocalypse, and suspense, and it uses the mechanisms of live […]

  • Row Light
  • May 20, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Blank Theatre’s On the Twentieth Century Never Reaches Full Steam

    The new production of On the Twentieth Century by Blank Theatre Company, directed by Danny Kapinos, is the latest incarnation of many fabulous versions of this story—on stage and screen. […]

  • Doug Mose
  • May 18, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Storefront Theater Roundup: Neo-Futurist’s Cult-Show and Theatre Above the Law’s Prelude to a Kiss

    We review two shows now running in Chicago’s storefront theater scene. Did you know that Chicago has more than 200 theater companies, many of them small and performing in storefronts […]

  • Doug Mose
  • May 17, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: City Lit Stages T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral in a Church Sanctuary With a World Premiere Score

    Murder in the Cathedral is a solemn play, drawn from the works of master poet and Nobel-Prize laureate T.S. Eliot. The 1935 verse play is now on stage at City […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 14, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Absurdist and Delightfully Off-Kilter—Hamburgers and Disappointment by Barrie Cole

    I find it strange that much is written about parameters and boundaries in relationships. Of course, there should be boundaries, but who decides what those are? How many people live […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • May 13, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Red Theater’s Hamlet Is Intimate and Text-Driven

    Ashley Fox as Hamlet. Photo Credit: Faith Decker / Wannabe Studio

    It’s the top of the first act. As the lights come down and the guards enter, those familiar with Shakespeare’s famous piece know what is about to happen. The guards […]

  • Lauren Katz
  • April 30, 2024
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Cock at Open Space Arts Is a Knock-Down, Drag-Out Good Time

    Open Space Arts is a collective that focuses on work that combats homophobia and antisemitism. The current production is Cock by British playwright Mike Bartlett. In 2009, the four-actor show debuted at […]

  • Row Light
  • April 7, 2024
    • Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Love Song, a Quirky Rom-Com by Remy Bumppo, Shows Us That Love Can Be Magical

    Beane is a bit peculiar. He doesn’t seem to enjoy life. His apartment attacks him. He answers questions before they’re asked or doesn’t answer at all. But once Beane meets […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • March 24, 2024
    • Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: What the Weird Sisters Saw by Idle Muse Reenvisions Macbeth Through the Eyes of Its Most Elusive Characters

    Reminiscent of the Three Fates of Greek mythology and famous for their incantation, “Double, double, toil and trouble,” the weird sisters of Macbeth are an iconic trio. But what does the world […]

  • Devony Hof
  • March 18, 2024
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