Review: Rivendell Theatre’s Pivot Tells a Tragicomic Story of Life, Love and Farming
It’s a few days before the wedding of Kara and Levi and in the small town of Milton, Nebraska, that’s a big event. As the play opens, we meet Levi […]
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Dispatch: We Recap Films About Wacky Houses, Czech Design, and An Architect of Grief at the Architecture & Design Film Festival
The Architecture & Design Film Festival, opens in Chicago tomorrow, Thursday, February 19, and runs through Sunday, February 22, at the Chicago Cultural Center and the Gene Siskel Film Center. The festival […]
Review: At Young People’s Theatre, The Hobbit Entertains an Audience Both Adult and Young (But Not Too Young)
I saw the morning performance of The Hobbit by Young People’s Theatre Saturday, expecting the house to be full of squealy kids with parents. I was only slightly surprised to […]
Review: Royal Shakespeare’s Hamnet at Chicago Shakespeare Recreates the Drama With Pure Emotion
You may appreciate the play Hamnet because you loved Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel or the 2025 film directed by Chloé Zhao. In either case, your view of the Hamnet story […]
Review: In Hedda Gabler, Remy Bumppo Theatre Portrays Hedda as a Fascinating, Immoral Woman Desperate for Freedom
Hedda and Nora. A 19th century Norwegian playwright created two female protagonists that resonate with us strongly today. Nora, in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (1879) reminds us of the […]
Preview: Architecture & Design Film Festival to Offer 10 Feature Films on Sustainability and Design Themes
The Architecture & Design Film Festival, a touring international film festival, returns to Chicago next week. The festival runs Thursday, February 19, through Sunday, February 22, at the Chicago Cultural Center […]
Review: Roald Dahl’s The Enormous Crocodile—A Family Delight With Ingenious Puppetry
The Enormous Crocodile by the Roald Dahl Story Company is adapted from Dahl’s 1978 book about a greedy crocodile that wants to eat children. This gigantic creature is rumbling through the […]
Review: Stereophonic—a Play With a Little Music—Tells the Story of a Not-Yet-Famous Rock Band Producing an Album
Stereophonic is a play about a year in the life of a rock band (never named) and the personal and musical trials and tribulations it goes through during recording sessions […]
Review: Eureka Day by Timeline Theatre Is a Play for Today About Vaccine, Parenting and Group Decision-Making
Eureka Day is a play about vaccination and anti-vaccination. But of course, it’s about a lot more. The play, now being staged by Timeline Theatre, tells the story of how […]
Review: Otherworld Theatre’s Prospera: A Sci-Fi Retelling Imagines a New World But Gets Too Complicated
Prospera: A Sci-Fi Retelling is a fanciful but complicated story in its new production by Otherworld Theatre. The play is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s late play, The Tempest, but you […]
Review: Green Corridors at Trap Door Theatre Tells a Ukrainian Playwright’s Story of War and Displacement
Green Corridors focuses on the stories of four Ukrainian women and other citizens trying to escape the brutality of Russian attacks on Ukraine in the war that Russia started in […]
Preview: Get Your Tickets—the 8th Annual Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival Opens January 21
The 8th Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival opens January 21 and runs through February 1. Those 12 days of puppetry will brighten our winter and remind us of the amazing joy […]