Review: One Bad Apple Tree Spoils the Bunch in Porchlight Revisits
Musical theater nerds in Chicago are lucky to have Porchlight Theatre—if the venerable company (now in its 27th year) didn’t…
Review: Trap Door’s The Ugly One Is a Brilliant and Delirious Take on the Construct of Beauty
I always get to shows early. I consider that to be a virtue and also very helpful in getting the…
Review: Trap Door Crafts Alas, a Stunningly Theatrical Video Montage
It may be theater…or perhaps film. But it’s not exactly a play. It’s a surreal symphony of exotic makeup and…
The Old Woman Broods at Trap Door Theatre Is an Absurdist, Prescient Satire—or Is It?
In case you think brooding suggests gloom and doom, think otherwise. Trap Door Theatre’s The Old Woman Broods is chaotic, cacophonous and…
