Lauren Gunderson’s 2017 play, The Book of Will, is a Shakespearean tale that takes place after the Bard dies. It would have been a tragedy if the King’s Men had […]
Goodman Theatre’s new play, Ashland Avenue, is a love letter to 1980s Chicago. The character who epitomizes that era is Pete, proprietor of Pete’s TV and Video, who founded and […]
Two sisters. Ash, the elder, has a professional job with a good income. Harley, the younger sister, inherits the family home when their father dies. “Probably because he thought I’d […]
If you have tickets for Northlight Theatre’s The First Lady of Television, you may think you are going to see a comedy about the beloved Molly Goldberg and her 1950s […]
Things With Friends, the newest play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Kristoffer Diaz, directed by Dexter Bullard, makes its debut at American Blues Theater. It’s a surrealist, climate anxiety comedy of […]
“Whenever I walk down a street, I find myself fascinated by the glow of windows and the curtains drawn across them, knowing that behind each one lives a world of […]
The F*ck House, now being staged by Strawdog Theatre, is a comic coming-of-age story about two 13-year old girls. The world premiere by playwright Susan H. Pak brings us a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]