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Review: Raven Theatre’s Octet Confronts the Lost Soul Inside the (Digital) Machine

For more than 40 years, Raven Theatre has been a cornerstone of Chicago’s intimate, actor‑driven drama. Over its long history, the company has built its reputation on revivals of modern […]

  • Doug Mose
  • May 7, 2026
    • Stages , Theater

    Review The Brightest Thing in the World by About Face Theatre—Realism to the Point of Cringe

    Romance is difficult enough in real life, but it’s damn-near impossible on the stage. Balancing the fictive chemicals of genuine-seeming attraction is a science to challenge our best artists. Success […]

  • Adam Kaz
  • March 26, 2024
    • About , Architecture , Art & Museums , Stages , Theater

    Review: Females Seek Agency in Remy Bumppo’s Top Girls

    Note: Top Girls was reviewed by Karin McKie and Kim Campbell on Women’s March weekend. Caryl Churchill wrote Top Girls in 1982, in the middle of Margaret Thatcher’s 1979-90 fraught, […]

  • Karin McKie
  • January 23, 2020
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