Nothing floods the tear ducts like a good ol’ dead-dog story. In A Dog’s House, written by Micah Schraft, directed by Carol Kelleher, performed at the Greenhouse Theater Center, we […]
Static-Head, the new science fiction play by Impostors Theatre Co., lectures about the cost of artificial intelligence: it strips creativity, it combines old ideas without contributing anything new. Yet the […]
After reading the play The Cuttlefish, or the Hyrcanian Worldview, about an artist driven to despair due to censorship, by the early 20th century Polish avant-garde writer Stanislaw I. Witkiewicz, […]
Over the last few years, Chicago’s young Gwydion Theatre Company has proven itself a reliable protectorate of great literature. In October, I favorably reviewed its production of Death of a […]
In the interest of transparency, I want to disclose I met the author Taylor Thornburg at an open mic and wrote this review after speaking with him. Later I attended […]
Even before its release, Sabr Tooth Tiger Magazine is something of a success. Rarely does a new arts and literary journal receive more than 300 submissions for its first call. […]
It seems there’s a goldrush for plays people sense might be prescient or “timely.” Which in 2025 means shows that predict devastation and authoritarian nightmares. Tin Drum Theatre Company’s The […]
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is an American classic so excellent, so full of wisdom and raw emotion, that any production stands to be a helluvah show. Now at […]
Things With Friends, the newest play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Kristoffer Diaz, directed by Dexter Bullard, makes its debut at American Blues Theater. It’s a surrealist, climate anxiety comedy of […]
For the first half hour of Dennis Kelly’s Girls & Boys, making its Midwest debut at the Bramble Arts Loft, one could be forgiven for calling it a Fleabag rip-off. […]
Of William Shakespeare’s comedies, Love’s Labour’s Love doesn’t get a whole lot of—ahem, love. Written in the mid-1590s when the young Bard was learning his powers, the oft-ignored play centers […]
First Floor Theater brings something strange but not altogether original with its debut of Evanston Salt Costs Rising, written by Succession writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist Will Arbery and directed […]