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Review: Incandescent Performances Highlight How to Transcend a Happy Marriage at Redtwist Theatre

Redtwist Theatre is high-kicking and playing on the edge for Season 21, themed “Defiant Femmes.” It is a timely theme and, in my opinion, needed to bolster the energy and […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • August 18, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: At Writers Theatre, Hershey Felder’s Rachmaninoff and the Tsar Brings Duality to the Stage

    Opposites may or may not attract but they can certainly produce lively theater. After years of creating solo portraits of famous composers—Gershwin, Chopin, Debussy among them—Hershey Felder pairs Sergei Rachmaninoff […]

  • Susan Lieberman
  • August 17, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Broadway in Chicago’s Dungeons and Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern Is a Night of Uproarious Laughter and Fun

    Cast of Twenty-Sided Tavern. Photo credit: André Chung

    Our mighty heroes have started their adventure. The Warrior (Madelyn Murphy), Mage (Diego F. Salinas), and Rogue (Anjali Bhimani). The goal? To save the Forgotten Realms. Projections designers Derek Christiansen […]

  • Lauren Katz
  • August 17, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Female, Ashkenazi With a Sewing Machine Tells a Story of Love and Illness

    This oddly named play is a love story as well as the drama of a serious health risk faced by many women. Rather than treating it in documentary style, its […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • August 16, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Sentinels Tracks Women Supporting Women in Secret

    In the world of gender dualities, a playground finds boys competing at physical games while girls chat and jump rope. Sentinels, which just ended a short run in a co-production […]

  • Susan Lieberman
  • August 12, 2025
    • Broadway , Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Parade Is a Crowd-Pleasing Hit, But It’s Not for Everyone

    The first national tour of the musical Parade arrived in Chicago this week with impressive credentials. Based on a true story set in Atlanta, it involves the 1913 rape and […]

  • Anne Siegel
  • August 10, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Buddha’s Birthday by Lucid Theater Focuses on One Character—Plus That Raccoon

    Buddha’s Birthday by Lucid Theater is a little slip of a play, a story of family relationships and conflicts—husband/wife, mother/daughter, aunt/niece. One character in each of those pairs is played […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • August 9, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater , Theater Festival

    Dispatch: Juicy Plays at Wisconsin’s American Players Theatre Are Ripe for the Picking

    There’s no better time for Chicagoans to point their cars north towards Wisconsin than right now. Some people might head to campgrounds, others may find a secret fishing spot, and […]

  • Anne Siegel
  • August 8, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Kokandy’s Amélie Recreates the Film Classic

    Kokandy Productions kicks off its 2025 season with the Chicago premiere of the musical adaptation of the 2001 French film, Amélie. The play is directed and choreographed by Derek Van […]

  • June Sawyers
  • August 5, 2025
    • Burlesque , Comedy , Feature , Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Sasha Velour Sashays into Steppenwolf with The Big Reveal Live Show for Limited Run

    Sexy siren and drag superstar Sasha Velour won the ninth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race in 2017 with her iconic, signature reveal, which she brings in spades to the Steppenwolf […]

  • Karin McKie
  • August 2, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Chicago Shakespeare’s Billie Jean Is Bold and Riveting  

    The cast of Billie Jean includes (front, left to right) Julia Antonelli, Nancy Lemenager, Elena Hurst, Murphy Taylor Smith, Carolyn Holding, (back, left to right) Callie Rachelle Johnson, Chilina Kennedy, Lenne Klingaman, and Courtney Rikki Green. Written by Lauren Gunderson and directed by Marc Bruni. Running July 18–August 10, 2025, in The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare. Photo by Justin Barbin.

    When audiences walk into The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, they are immediately transported to a tennis match. Scenic designer Wilson Chin completely transforms the space— with audience stands on […]

  • Lauren Katz
  • July 28, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Griffin Theatre Company’s Girls & Boys Shines After a Rough Start

    For the first half hour of Dennis Kelly’s Girls & Boys, making its Midwest debut at the Bramble Arts Loft, one could be forgiven for calling it a Fleabag rip-off. […]

  • Adam Kaz
  • July 23, 2025
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