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Review: Tony-Winning Kimberly Akimbo Brings Its Busy Plot, Poignant Moments to CIBC Theatre

On the heels of the 2025 Tony Awards, where the delightful and surprisingly touching Maybe Happy Ending won the American Theater Wing’s award for Best New Musical, Chicago welcomes the […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • June 13, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Chicago Shakespeare’s 42 Balloons Is Lighter-Than-Air Entertainment

    Move over, Marilyn McCoo… step aside, Nena… there’s a new balloon song in the air. A whole bunch of ’em, actually, at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where they’re producing the […]

  • Doug Mose
  • June 13, 2025
    • Comedy , Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Dial H for Hilarity at Annoyance Theatre’s Hitch*Cocktails

    While Hitch*Cocktails has been a staple of the Annoyance Theatre’s lineup for over a decade, the team behind Chicago’s most frighteningly funny drinking game is raising the stakes with the […]

  • Anthony Cusumano
  • June 9, 2025
    • Comedy , Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Strong Performances Elevate Matt & Ben at Jarvis Square Theater

    Though their earliest acting credits date back to the 1980s, it’s hard to argue that 1997 wasn’t the true launch of Matt Damon’s and Ben Affleck’s careers. Both featured in […]

  • Anthony Cusumano
  • June 5, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Red Orchid’s Six Men Dressed Like Joseph Stalin Is Drama, History and a Love Letter to Theater

    Last week, the Russian government erected a new statue of Joseph Stalin in Moscow. Apparently Vladimir Putin is resurrecting the image of the brutal dictator. And this week, a Chicago […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • June 3, 2025
    • Circus , Preview , Stages , Theater , Theater Festival

    Preview: Physical Theater Festival to Feature Local Talent Plus Global Companies June 2-8 at Theater Wit

    Next week Physical Theater Festival Chicago presents its annual weeklong exploration of physical theater from around the world. This year there’s a local twist. The festival, which runs June 2-8 […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 31, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: First Floor Theater’s Evanston Salt Costs Rising Borrows a Lot and Reveals Little

    First Floor Theater brings something strange but not altogether original with its debut of Evanston Salt Costs Rising, written by Succession writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist Will Arbery and directed […]

  • Adam Kaz
  • May 29, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Beckett’s Endgame at Facility Theatre Is a Study in Inertia

    People who are familiar with Samuel Beckett’s work won’t be surprised by their frustration in trying to identify a clear meaning from any of his plays, including Endgame. This faithful […]

  • Anthony Neri
  • May 28, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Theatre Evolve Unleashes a Redeemed MedeaMedeaMedea

    The tale of Medea presents a paradox in contemporary times. Euripides, Ovid, and Seneca cast her as a villain who manipulates Jason, the Argonaut, to achieve her ambition of becoming […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • May 25, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Pegasus Theatre’s Shakin’ the Mess Outta Misery Is an Uplifting Coming-of-Age Story

    Pegasus Theatre first performed Shakin’ the Mess Outta Misery in 2017. Playwright Shay Yougblood’s story of Black women raising one of their own in 1960s Georgia has been remounted by Pegasus at […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • May 22, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: The Antiquities at Goodman Theatre Reminds Us That Humans, As Creative as We Are, May Have an Expiration Date

    The Antiquities at Goodman Theatre is a panorama of human invention and storytelling beginning in the 19th century and continuing into the 23rd century, when humans may be .extinct. These scenes […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 14, 2025
    • Review , Stages , Storefront , Theater

    Review: Robots Rule in Century-Old Play, R.U.R. Rossum’s Universal Robots, at City Lit Theater

    Will robots or humanoids some day rule the world? A play written 105 years ago predicts the rise of the robot over its human creators. You can see the clever, […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 13, 2025
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