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Tympanic’s “Blueberry Toast” Finds Itself Having To Scrape Off Its Burnt Edges

If you had a sinking suspicion that, hey, maybe Tympanic Theatre Company’s Blueberry Toast is not about fruity breads and Eggo waffles and a celebration of domestic bliss over an […]

  • Lauren Garcia
  • February 18, 2016
    • Stages , Theater

    The Flick at Steppenwolf: Reel Love Becomes Real Life in a Rundown Movie Theater

    Annie Baker’s Pulitzer-winning script for The Flick, newly opened at Steppenwolf Theatre, gives us a chance to get to know three people, underpaid workers in a movie theater in Worcester […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • February 17, 2016
    • Stages , Theater

    All the World’s a Stage is Emotional and Entertaining

    It’s difficult to turn your life– and your pain– into art. Too often it ends up being therapy– good for you, but not necessarily good for the audience. But All […]

  • Jami Nakamura Lin
  • February 17, 2016
    • Stages , Theater

    Pop Waits: It’s Punk Raucous Mixed with Melancholy

      Pop Waits, the Neo-Futurists’ new production, directed by Halena Kays, is a punk rock operetta with some sweet and sad moments. Created by Malic White and Molly Brennan, Pop […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • February 16, 2016
    • Stages , Theater

    Refuge Theatre Project’s High Fidelity Reclaims a Chicago Classic

    Refuge Theatre Project, the no frills, contemporary music theater group that brought you Next Thing You Know and Glory Days in 2015, is starting off 2016 with a run of High […]

  • Emma Terhaar
  • February 16, 2016
    • Stages , Theater

    Porchlight’s “Far From Heaven” Takes Their Musical Theater Fare Shaken, Not Stoic

    How do you take a cloyingly overused plot line and make it feel less decayed, more relevant, and, above all, interesting? That’s what Porchlight Music Theatre’s Far From Heaven attempts […]

  • Lauren Garcia
  • February 15, 2016
    • Stages , Theater

    Eclectic Full Contact Theatre’s Overworked Shape of Things

    The first time I saw Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things was at my small Midwestern liberal arts college, the same setting as the play itself. Afterwards, my friends and […]

  • Jami Nakamura Lin
  • February 15, 2016
    • Stages , Theater

    Hypocrites Remount Tennessee Williams’ Memory Play, The Glass Menagerie

    Hans Fleischmann developed a distinctive poetic vision for his production of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, which ran for about six months in 2013 at Mary-Arrchie Theatre and then at […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • February 11, 2016
    • Stages , Theater

    Mary-Arrchie Signs Off in Classic Chicago Style with Snarling, Hilarious Mamet

    If you want to see classic Shakespeare without flying to London, you can drive up to Stratford, Ontario, to see a production of Macbeth or As You Like It this […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • February 8, 2016
    • Stages , Theater , Theater Festival

    The Greenhouse Theater Center’s Jacob Harvey on Embracing the Individual

    One may allegedly be the loneliest number, but at the Greenhouse Theater Center, Artistic Director Jacob Harvey would like to argue that it also makes for one hell of a fine show. […]

  • Lauren Garcia
  • February 3, 2016
    • Lit , Live lit events , Stages , Theater , Uncategorized

    Chicago Slam Works’ “Incendium”: A Hell of a Show

    “Everybody looks better once they die.” Welcome to your orientation to the afterlife. In a gritty, dungeon-like club, the cast of “Incendium” provides a cabaret-style evening of performance to acquaint […]

  • Brianna Kratz
  • February 3, 2016
    • Stages , Theater

    Neil LaBute X 11: Profiles Theatre Proves the Value of Great Writing

      An evening of Vices. An evening of Virtues. That’s how Profiles Theatre describes the collection of 11 short plays by Neil LaBute now being staged at the theater in […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • February 1, 2016
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