Wednesday, May 22, 2019
But at least "Exit, pursued by a bear" finally makes sense.
Now still being the winter of our discontent, it feels unwarranted for the Goodman Theatre to run its…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMThis is the fourth adaptation this year, if you're still keeping track.
"It was on a dreary night in November," intones teenage Mary Shelley, thrusting a candela…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThursday, May 16, 2019
Eifman Ballet views the transformation through the lens of dance.
Eifman Ballet returns to the Auditorium May 17-19 for the North American premiere of artistic d…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 02:30PMTuesday, May 7, 2019
Of the several potentially fruitful directions for a play about a generic grown-up teen detective to take, this world premiere is not one of them.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMWednesday, May 1, 2019
The new play by Leonard House takes viewers inside a south side bar in 1972.
It's 1972 and Haskins' bar has been a fixture on the south side of Chicago for 30 ye…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMMonday, April 29, 2019
Directed by Barbara Gaines, CST's production meets but does not exceed expectations.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 05:03PMWednesday, April 24, 2019
This production's all-female cast succeeds in focusing a play often seen through the lens of race quite pointedly upon gender.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 10:00AMThursday, April 18, 2019
“He was Mick Jagger before Mick Jagger.”
He moved with a feral grace, with a heat that blazes through the grain of the film that remains, with a virtuosity t…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMWednesday, April 17, 2019
The cast brings the group of dance hopefuls to life.
On a bare stage, a sea of spandex roils, shining with that 1970s luster. A director calls out counts and ste…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 12:00PMThursday, April 11, 2019
Race is just a trading card.
Joshua Harmon's 2018 Admissions opens in an administrative office at Hillcrest, an elite prep school in New Hampshire, where two blo…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, April 3, 2019
It's as pretty as a pastry.
Fox gave Disney a run for its money when it released the 1997 animated feature film Anastasia, about an amnesiac orphan who might be …
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMThursday, March 28, 2019
It’s been a rehearsal room, a performance venue, a puppetry workshop, and a space for experiments of all kinds.
Links Hall was originally Link's Hall, named f…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMWednesday, March 27, 2019
Friday, March 22, 2019
The first woman in history to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, Lynn Nottage's latest play arrives direct from Broadway but its spirit can be found in countless barstools and beer steins ar…
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 11:34AMThursday, March 21, 2019
It's escapism you can feel good about.
In Thomas Nashe's novel The Unfortunate Traveller, the young servant-soldier Jack Wilton swashbuckles his way through the …
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMFriday, March 8, 2019
Casting the audience into the role of congregants, this production of John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play is more canny than most about what it let's us see.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 11:00AMThursday, March 7, 2019
Go Team FatGay!
If the 30s are the new 20s, and the 20s are but an extended adolescence, then we may never have to grow up at all if we live long enough. Sam and…
Linked From www.chicagoreader.com at 07:00AMMonday, March 4, 2019
Nearly three hundred years since its premiere, Handel's opera of desire and power gains insight and urgency in this modern staging.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 03:00PMTuesday, February 26, 2019
Actor Kareem Bandealy's first foray as a playwright finds him laying the groundwork for an absurdist family comedy only to squander the work with an overcooked metatheatrical twist.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMMonday, February 18, 2019
Nothing that sparkles can last in Verdi's tragedy of goodness against the world.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 03:30PMTuesday, January 29, 2019
This WorldStage Production at Chicago Shakespeare Theater renders trauma, memory and youth in its own exquisite language.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMPart of the International Puppet Festival, this "one person" show from Compagnie Non Nova disturbs as much as it delights.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMMonday, January 14, 2019
Stephen Adly Guirgis' Pulitzer Prize-winning play is as heartbreaking and hilarious as ever.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 04:00PMTuesday, November 27, 2018
Closing out their William Inge season, this production from Eclipse Theatre Company walks the line between realism and melodrama with ease.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 12:00PMMonday, November 26, 2018
Promethean Theatre Ensemble's production of Tom Stoppard's ode to balancing reason and ardor is as welcome as ever.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 11:00AMTuesday, October 23, 2018
AstonRep Theatre Company's production of this Martin McDonagh play is as lovely a thing as can be mustered from the playwright's relentlessly bleak vision of humanity.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 11:15AMTuesday, October 9, 2018
If “DDR” brings to mind not "Dance Dance Revolution" but “Deutsche Demokratische Republik", The Artistic Home's production of this Tom Stoppard play is probably for you.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMTuesday, October 2, 2018
The Chicago premiere of Paula Vogel's Tony Award-nominated play is an impressionistic journey through the history of a controversy.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 01:00PMWednesday, September 26, 2018
City Lit's production of this early work by George Bernard Shaw remains brilliantly funny in our time of appalling displays of vanity and greed.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 05:00PMSunday, August 26, 2018
At Writers Theatre, playwright Qui Nguyen weaves a story that is uniquely Asian and indivisibly American.
Linked From www.newcitystage.com at 11:00AMTuesday, July 24, 2018
Eclipse Theatre Company’s William Inge season continues with this 1955 play about getting lost in order to get found.
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