Preview: Broken Nose Theatre Tees Up Its 2022 Bechdel Fest With Eight Plays That Pass That Test
You may know Alison Bechdel as the author and subject of the memoirish musical, Fun Home. But she’s also the source…
Review: In After the Blast, a Play About Environmental Disaster, a Robot Named Arthur Steals the Show
Zoe Kazan’s play After the Blast is set a few generations in the future—underground. An environmental disaster has made “upstairs” unlivable and…
Review: Broken Nose Theatre Asks If the Cure Can Be Worse Than the Illness in This is Only a Test
I have not heard the air raid sirens in years. In the ’50s through the ’80s an air raid siren…
Review: Broken Nose Theatre’s Audio Play, Kingdom, Tells a Black LGBTQ Story With Heart
Arthur and Henry are long time partners; they’ve lived together for 40 years in Orlando, in the shadow of the…
Review: Broken Nose Theatre’s Labyrinth Choreographs a Latin American Debt Crisis
If I told you I saw a play about the Latin American debt crisis and it was fabulously entertaining, would…
Review: A Fully Formed Female Character Study in Broken Nose Theatre’s Girl in the Red Corner
Before I knew anything about Girl in the Red Corner, on stage in an upstairs studio at the Den Theatre in…
Stage Shorts–Plays From Haven, Organic and Broken Nose
Stage Shorts is our new column for Third Coast Review. It’s our way of covering more of Chicago’s fabulous storefront…
