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Review: Villette at Lookingglass Theatre Tells a Young Woman’s 19th Century Story With 21st Century Flair

Villette is an 19th century tale played on an strikingly modern stage set. The playing area is bounded by two walls…

For all the theater I’ve attended in Chicago—since childhood, really—I’m slightly embarrassed to admit that this weekend marked my first…

I wish that I could say that What to Send Up When It Goes Down was a flashback to earlier…

Jane Byrne, whose name is enshrined in an expressway interchange, was Chicago’s first female mayor. She probably deserves a better…

Chicago playwright J. Nicole Brooks has won the 2021 Harold and Mimi Steinberg / American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award for…

Last year was the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s landmark horror novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, which…

This isn’t a “best theater of 2018” list. We didn’t see everything. Most of our writers are freelancers, all with…

Mary Zimmerman’s The Steadfast Tin Soldier is the theatrical equivalent of a gift under the tree on Christmas morning; it’s…

Professor Arronax (Kasey Foster), expert of all things oceanic, has been brought aboard a US Naval Vessel to aide in…

Plantation!, now receiving its world premiere in a production at Lookingglass Theatre directed by David Schwimmer, is a comedic take…