Review: Some Like It Hot, We Get It Tepid
Billy Wilder’s 1959 Some Like It Hot is widely considered a perfect film: witty and surprising, silly and sexy—a culmination of Wilder’s brilliant career and a showcase for its stars […]
Review: In Remy Bumppo’s Dear Elizabeth, Two Poets Reflect on Their Lives and Work in Their Letters
A pair of poets, in love with words, are sort of, possibly, in love with each other. Or not. That’s the theme of Dear Elizabeth, an epistolary play by Sarah Ruhl. […]
Review: Ruth on the Rocks Plays a Mixtape Down Memory Lane as Part of Destinos International Latino Theater Festival
This year marks the 7th Destinos International Latino Theater Festival, which brings a variety of performances from as far as Spain and Argentina to the Back of the Yards neighborhood […]
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Babes with Blades Is a Fun and Feisty Take on Fairyland
Each iteration of A Midsummer Night’s Dream presents a different version of the confounding and enchanted woods in which the characters lose themselves. Audience members walk in, wondering how this […]
Review: Theater Above the Law’s Grimm Exhausts You With Style
Who would’ve thought two 19th-century German nerds could cause such a stir? When Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm compiled their nation’s folklore in the Grimms’ Fairy Tales they sparked two centuries […]
Review: At Goodman Theatre, Eboni Booth’s Primary Trust Explores the Inner World of Grief and Learning to Thrive
Grief is born out of trauma and thrives in loneliness. Playwright Eboni Booth creates a devastating inner world of grief in Primary Trust and builds a shell of a world […]
Review: Hell in a Handbag Doles Out the Treats with Double the Farce in the Latest Chapter of Golden Girls
There are not many certainties in life and when a sure thing is discovered we all should enjoy it. So, just in time for the Halloween season, Hell in a […]
Review: Linda Reiter Bewitches as Becky Nurse of Salem at Shattered Globe Theatre
Sarah Ruhl’s play, Becky Nurse of Salem, is a history lesson and a feminist reminder for 2024. The play being staged by Shattered Globe Theatre stars Chicago actor Linda Reiter […]
Review: Blue Eyed Soul Sung by Brown Eyed People Revs Up the Soul at Black Ensemble Theater
There is not a lot of certainty in today’s world. The world may seem on 33 and 1/3 and you’re on 33. There is one thing that I can count […]
Review: A Book About Two Rabbits Sparks a Firestorm in Alabama Story by Ghostlight Ensemble
“Tell me a story.” That line is repeated by cast members in the prologue to Alabama Story, a play about a book for children 3 to 7. Set in Montgomery, Alabama, […]
Review: Ironbound at Raven Theatre Paints a Portrait of an Immigrant Woman Fighting for Survival—Although Her New Country Doesn’t Care
Darja is an all-American woman. She may be a Polish immigrant, escaping the wars and politics of her native land. But she has all the problems of her born-in-the-USA sisters. She […]
Review: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Is Sheer Magic
Sorting hats! Quidditch brooms! Wand duels! Dementors! We’re in the midst of the spooky season and over at the Nederlander Theatre they are brewing up the perfect potion: the launch […]