Review: Strawdog’s Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins Is Great Fun for All Ages
Strawdog Theatre is giving Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins a spin during the holiday season for all children and grownups…
Review: Family Dysfunction is Comically Functional In Strawdog’s On the Greenbelt
I had to look up the Greenbelt in Boise, Idaho, to see if it was a real place—it is. There…
Review: Strawdog’s How Do We Navigate Space? Choreographs Chicagoans in Pandemic Living
Strawdog Theatre’s final entry in their season of resilience celebrates Chicagoans and how they are blundering through and surviving a…
Review: Robert O’Hara’s Barbecue, Newly Cooked Up for Our Virtual World
Robert O’Hara’s funny, snarky familyish drama Barbecue was staged by Strawdog Theatre in 2017 in Steppenwolf’s 1700 Theatre. It’s set…
Review: Tuta Theatre’s Hedda Gabler Explodes the Classic Drama with Live Music and Stylized Staging
Hedda and Nora. The strong female characters in Henrik Ibsen’s two well-known plays—A Doll’s House (currently on stage at Raven…
Review: Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde; ‘Genderblind’ and Disobedient to the Core
Imagine Oscar Wilde, the man who practically invented epigrams (the antiquated version of a verbal burn), standing trial, and being…
Liberté, Égalité, Sororité: Four Badass Women Fight for Art and Freedom in Strawdog’s The Revolutionists
The Revolutionists is feminist history laced with an argument for the value of art in revolution. Playwright Lauren Gunderson describes it…
