People who are familiar with Samuel Beckett’s work won’t be surprised by their frustration in trying to identify a clear meaning from any of his plays, including Endgame. This faithful […]
Kairos pits a newly formed couple against a sci-fi trope—technological revolution. When a new and selective procedure called Prometheus offers the couple synthetic immortality, they struggle, in a very human […]
A musical version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Helena & Hermia in the Enamored Odyssey whirls and bumbles us through love’s entanglements. What sets this production by the Impostors […]
First Date, directed by Christina Ramirez, with a script by Austin Winsberg, slams us with all the goofs and hiccups of modern dating, which, without the bubbly, rambunctious soundtrack and […]
New Orleans has a kind of disheveled luxury as it’s portrayed in Tennessee Williams’ 1947 play, A Streetcar Named Desire. In this production in Aurora, co-directors Jim Corti and Elizabeth Swanson […]
A new staging of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play An Enemy of the People has come to Chicago, directed by Jim Masini. It dramatizes a public health crisis in a small town and […]
A zany and eclectic soundtrack by Tiffany Keane Schaefer and Brian Rasmussen meets a zany and eclectic cast in this hilarious generation-specific parody. The three background musicians (Brian Rasmussen, Mark […]
Nothing about the set of Caveman Play is very primal. Yes, there is a fire in the center of what is presumably a cave, but it crackles silently amid soft elevator music, […]