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Review: At Steppenwolf Theatre, Miz Martha Washington’s Crazy Dreamscape Offers Comic History Lessons and Discomfort

Leaving the theater after seeing this wise and hysterically funny play, my first thought was, I would like to see this produced in Florida, where the governor and legislature have […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • September 17, 2022
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Choir Boy at Steppenwolf Is a Splendid Spectacle With a Flawed Script

    It’s not easy growing up as a gay Black boy. Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play Choir Boy is the story of Pharus, a high school senior at the Charles R. Drew Prep School […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • July 5, 2022
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: New Steppenwolf Ensemble Theater Sparkles With Seagull, in Which Everyone Is Miserable

    Seagull by Anton Chekhov adapted by Yasen Peyankov

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • May 17, 2022
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: At Steppenwolf Theatre, King James Is All About Friendship, Heartbreak and Basketball

    It seems like it’s all about basketball but it really isn’t—until it finally is. King James, the wickedly funny world premiere play by Rajiv Joseph, is on stage at Steppenwolf […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • March 17, 2022
    • Stages , Theater , Virtual

    Review: Steppenwolf Opens 2021-22 Season With Tracy Letts’ Trio of Virtual Plays Set in an Off-Kilter World

    Steppenwolf Theatre adds to its Steppenwolf Now series with three short plays by Tracy Letts, available virtually through October 24. These three pieces, totaling about 40 minutes, create the opening […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • October 5, 2021
    • Art & Museums , Feature , Stages , Theater

    Dialogs: Architecture Collides With Theater in Steppenwolf Podcast, “Collision,” Featuring AS+GG’s Gordon Gill

    Theater and architecture share a creative bond in this edition of Steppenwolf Theatre’s Half Hour podcast series. The podcast features Gordon Gill, the architect for Steppenwolf’s new Arts and Education […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • August 5, 2021
    • Stages , Theater , Virtual

    Review: Steppenwolf’s Duchess! Duchess! Duchess! Skirts Issues in Favor of Entertainment

    Many Americans seem to have a British-Royals obsession that has never made sense to me. Steppenwolf Theatre’s newest online production in its Steppenwolf NOW streaming series plays on that royals […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • March 17, 2021
    • Beyond , Feature , Stages , Theater , Virtual

    Report: How Virtual Theater Can Expand the Influence of Local Theaters Post-Pandemic

    Virtual theater has come in many forms during the last eight pandemic months. Our most recent theater review was actor/clown Bill Irwin’s new version of his bravura performance of On […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • December 2, 2020
    • Preview , Review , Stages , Theater

    Chicago Theaters Go Virtual During the Virus; Goodman Streams School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play

    In these “AC,” After COVID, times, Chicago theaters are offering online content to fill the gap of canceled shows and in-person instruction (as well as the yawning expanse of endless […]

  • Karin McKie
  • April 26, 2020
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: At Steppenwolf Theatre, Tracy Letts’ Bug Exploits Our Skin-Crawling Anxieties

    Bug starts out like a Sam Shepard play. Two lost souls in a seedy Oklahoma motel room. Fools for love. Agnes (Carrie Coon) is a waitress who’s dreading her ex-husband’s […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • February 7, 2020
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: The Raw World of 13-Year-Olds Comes Alive in Steppenwolf’s Dance Nation

    There is dancing in Dance Nation, now at Steppenwolf Theatre. It’s sometimes clumsy, sometimes graceful, and generally amateurish. Clare Barron’s play is about a crew of 13-year-old girls (and a […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • December 24, 2019
    • Stages , Theater

    Review: Ladysmith Black Mambazo Propels Lovely Lyrical Lindiwe

    Chicago and Durban, South Africa, have been Sister Cities since 1997, and spiritual siblings for far longer, as explored in the joyful world premiere of Lindiwe, written by Eric Simonson, […]

  • Karin McKie
  • November 24, 2019
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