Review: Lookingglass Theatre’s Untitled Vampire Play Amuses and Charms
We all know that classic moment in a romantic comedy when a partner meets the parents for the first time. There are often nerves all around. What if the parents […]
Review: Family Legacies Run Deep in Steppenwolf’s Catch as Catch Can
Steppenwolf Theatre ends its 50th anniversary season with a production that reflects the company’s core identity. Ensemble member Amy Morton directs Mia Chung’s Catch as Catch Can with trademark attention […]
Review: Writers Theatre Stages Stoppard’s Final Great Work, Leopoldstadt, a Story of 20th Century Tragedy—and His Own Past
Tom Stoppard’s last grand masterpiece, Leopoldstadt, gets a dynamic staging at Writers Theatre, featuring an all-Chicago cast of some of our finest actors, directed by Carey Perloff. The play concerns […]
Review: Theo’s Small‑Scale Damn Yankees Boasts a Big‑Hearted Spirit
If you’re looking for a little baseball‑themed entertainment this summer, you could skip the Friendly Confines or Sox Park (currently its tenants are in FIRST PLACE in the AL Central?!) […]
Review: Chicago Shakes Stages Brokeback Mountain, a Heartfelt Love Story About Two Ranch Hands
It all began with a short story published in the October 13, 1997, issue of the New Yorker. And then it became an Academy-Award winning film, later an opera, not […]
Review: Promethean Theatre’s Antigone Demonstrates Personal Morality Trampled by Authoritarian Rule
The contemporary version of the play Antigone, written by Jean Anouilh almost 2400 years after Sophocles’ original, preserves the Greek play’s theme: the conflict between individual conscience and governmental edict. […]
Review: Ego Death Theatre Collective’s A Dog’s House Will Make You Cry
Nothing floods the tear ducts like a good ol’ dead-dog story. In A Dog’s House, written by Micah Schraft, directed by Carol Kelleher, performed at the Greenhouse Theater Center, we […]
Preview: Tony-Award-Winning American Players Theatre Prepares Season of Classic and Contemporary Plays in Wisconsin
If you’ve been waiting to visit the lush, green countryside of rural Spring Green, Wisconsin, home of American Players Theatre (APT), this year’s recent news may encourage you to schedule […]
Review: First Floor Theater’s Work Hard Have Fun Make History Gets Lost in Its Own Experimentalism
Review written by Emily Werner. First Floor Theater’s new production of reid tang’s dark comedy Work Hard Have Fun Make History struggles to create a clear connection between the characters […]
Review: Hell in a Handbag’s The Golden Girls: The Cheese Pyramid Parodies a Scam From Rose’s Home Town of St. Olaf, Minnesota
By now, the four women of The Golden Girls have become woven into the fabric of American culture. Dorothy (David Cerda), Blanche (Grant Drager), Sophia (Kelly Bolton), and Rose (Ed […]
Review: In A Red Orchid’s The Targeted, People Believe Mind-Control Chips Are Implanted in Their Bodies
The setting is a church summer camp, now the site of the First Annual Solidarity and Truth Conference. Before the play begins, voices and visual projections describe the lives of T.I.s […]
Review: Le Bal at Trap Door Theatre Portrays an American Century with Music, Dance and No Dialogue
Not a word is spoken. The 90-minute performance by Trap Door Theatre is staged with music, recorded song and occasional dialog, but the seven actors say nothing. The production is […]