Shattered Globe Theatre is snow staging the simultaneously heartbreaking and life-affirming Jump, by Charly Evon Simpson. The play saw its world premiere with PlayMakers Repertory Company in 2019 and made […]
Set in the world of competitive tennis, filmmaker Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name, Suspiria remake) and writer Justin Kuritzkes’ Challengers is about players who are young and hungry, […]
The entire flow of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone is set in the kitchen of Seth and Bertha Holly’s boardinghouse—the heart of the home is an appropriate setting for a play that […]
Minor Moon’s album release show for their recently released fourth album The Light Up Waltz at Lincoln Hall on Friday was nothing short of a musical eclipse. I hate comparing […]
LA psych rock band Meatbodies included a stop at Schubas Tavern Sunday evening on their tour promoting recent record Flora Ocean Tiger Bloom. Meatbodies don’t stop in Chicago all that […]
Congo Square Theatre is celebrating a landmark anniversary of 25 years of producing and staging plays written by Black artists about the Black experience in America. Their production of August […]
A college student returns home to find that his uncle killed his father, married his mother and wants his nephew/son out of the picture. Typical family drama. But Hamlet is […]
Fran, a customer at Owen’s Brooklyn laundry, asks “Do you believe in God?” Owen replies “Why not?” In the first scene of John Patrick Shanley’s Brooklyn Laundry, the exchange sounds flippant. […]
This review was written by guest author Lyra Wilson. It’s your college dissertation, and what do you do? Some people like yours truly might scramble to figure out what to […]
The Motive and the Cue is a theater-lover’s dream, a deliciously funny and candid theater story. Directed by Sam Mendes (Empire of Light, The Ferryman), it’s a new play about the rehearsal period for […]
An even better follow-up to last year’s The Three Musketeers—Part I: D’Artagnan, this week’s Part 2: Milady disposes of the business of introducing all of the characters from the classic […]
Nothing makes children’s theater more fun than seeing it with a roomful of giggly squirmy grade schoolers. Usually I review new plays at Chicago Children’s Theatre during a weekend performance—with […]