I find it strange that much is written about parameters and boundaries in relationships. Of course, there should be boundaries, but who decides what those are? How many people live […]
It took me a second to realize, but Belle and Sebastian have been in the game for 28 years with a dozen albums under their belts and a hefty mount […]
Last Stop on Market Street, now being staged by Young People’s Theatre of Chicago, is a children’s story with lively music and song and dance performed by six talented actors. […]
In 1993, A Red Orchid Theatre (and its talented ensemble of writers, directors, and actors) established itself as a pillar of Chicago’s independent theater scene. In 2024, two of its […]
The American theater business and society in general offer plenty of opportunity for criticism of “wokeness” and efforts to satisfy all sides—both in the arts, in other nonprofits and in […]
Chicago musicians Chance the Rapper, Jennifer Hudson, plus legendary producer Quincy Jones, recently opened the renovated Ramova Theatre. The interior’s quaint cityscape-inside-a-building balconies and windows have been restored to usher […]
Last Friday The Salt Shed campus was abuzz with all the goings on. The new Goose Island Brewpub was open and had a line out the door that was only […]
Following his 2021 Oscar-winning Drive My Car, writer/director Ryusuke Hamaguchi (whose also excellent Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy was released stateside the same year) takes a more oblique but no less potent and […]
Under its super-charged surface story of an obsessed young fan of a TV show, I Saw the TV Glow has a great deal going on, including the story of an identity transformation […]
Everyone, I suppose, has a sense of the what-if of history. What if Abraham Lincoln hadn’t gone to Ford’s Theater that night and avoided assassination? What if I had taken a […]
It’s con and festival season and while some fests require proper attire, accommodations, and a good amount of water so you don’t pass out, others simply require you to kick […]
A Red Orchid Theatre’s newest production Turret is a world premiere written and directed by Levi Holloway, whose recent works have included a Broadway run of his play Grey House, […]
