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Preview: “It’s All Inside Your Head, But Is Any of It Real?” Theater of the Mind, Co-Created by David Byrne, to Open Next March

Chicago will have a new entertainment space that will enable you to “step into a new world of totally different experiences” from those you usually find in a theater or […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • October 30, 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
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: It’s a Revival! Music Theater Works Revisits Godspell Over 50 Years Later

    The musical Godspell was a colossal hit off-Broadway, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book by John Michael Tebelak. It was 1971, and the news trumpeted stories about […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • October 27, 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
    • Puppet theater , Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Rough House Theater’s Horror Event, House of the Exquisite Corpse, Shocks and Astounds

    Room 4: BLOOD AND MEMORY; Creators: Chih-Jou Cheng and Charlie Malave; Puppeteer: Tia Pinson

    It’s officially that time of year. The temperature is cooling down, the sun is setting earlier, and the spooky, Halloween vibe is starting to take over. If this is the […]

  • Lauren Katz
  • October 21, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review:  Babes With Blades Hits The Mark With a Futuristic Story of How to Get Along in Dystopia

    The lights come up and a fight begins. A Recruit chooses to fight an officer as a test of her fitness to join the Army. Members of the Army look […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • October 20, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Goodman Theatre’s Revolution(s) Gets Activist Fuel and Spirit From Its Playwright and Its Musical Creator

    Something unusual happened Monday night as we entered Goodman’s Owen Theatre. We were offered ear plugs. And I thought to myself, yes, this is going to be good—and loud. The […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • October 15, 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
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Trap Door Takes Us Back to the Sixties with Amiri Baraka’s Electric Dutchman

    Amiri Baraka was still LeRoi Jones when he wrote Dutchman in 1964. The play, now being staged by Trap Door Theatre, is an early dialogue on race, class and power. […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • October 11, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Terry Guest’s Oak Is a Powerful Story of Race, Freedom, and Belief at Raven Theatre

    Oak is my third experience with the work of playwright Terry Guest. His work reveals the visceral aspects of the Black experience in America with stark realism, some magical realism, […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • October 10, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Gwydion Theatre Company’s Death of a Salesman Is Great Despite Some Deviations

    Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is an American classic so excellent, so full of wisdom and raw emotion, that any production stands to be a helluvah show. Now at […]

  • Adam Kaz
  • October 6, 2025
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