Stages, Theater

Review: Blank Theatre’s Promises, Promises a Holiday Delight

In 1960, when Eisenhower was still president and what we think of as “the ’60s”… counter culture… protests… civil unrest… had yet to really begin, Billy Wilder and his screenwriting […]

Doug Mose /
Stages, Theater

Review: Blank Theatre’s The Wild Party Is One Shindig You Can Skip

A funny thing happened in the New York theater scene in 1999: two new musicals, with the same name and based on the same source material, debuted in the same […]

Doug Mose /
Stages, Theater

Stage Shorts: Plays About Sex Trafficking, Big Oil, White Guilt, Youthful Angst

Chicago Crime and Sex Trafficking Stories Explode in Monger at Her Story Theater Mary Bonnett’s play Monger: The Awakening of J.B. Benton tells a complicated Chicago crime story with several […]

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