Earlier this year, the film adaptation of the Broadway musical of Mean Girls premiered in theaters. That musical was, of course, based on Tina Fey’s very non-musical original film (which […]
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This review offers some tough love. Love for Kokandy Productions, for its ambitions and scope, for its actors and musicians. But I’m also going to add a tough critique for […]
The Museum of Contemporary Art hosted a 50-minute performance of Edgar Arceneaux’s Until, Until, Until… for three performances in October. The LA-based writer/director/producer/performer devised the production 10 years ago to […]
Something very wonderful is on stage at the Studebaker Theater this pre-Halloween weekend. A haunting affair, one part horror and another strange beauty, the Chicago-based Emmy-award-winning performance collective Manual Cinema […]
Billy Wilder’s 1959 Some Like It Hot is widely considered a perfect film: witty and surprising, silly and sexy—a culmination of Wilder’s brilliant career and a showcase for its stars […]
A pair of poets, in love with words, are sort of, possibly, in love with each other. Or not. That’s the theme of Dear Elizabeth, an epistolary play by Sarah Ruhl. […]
This year marks the 7th Destinos International Latino Theater Festival, which brings a variety of performances from as far as Spain and Argentina to the Back of the Yards neighborhood […]
Each iteration of A Midsummer Night’s Dream presents a different version of the confounding and enchanted woods in which the characters lose themselves. Audience members walk in, wondering how this […]
I’ve often said that a film retelling will destroy a brilliant literary work and a mediocre book can make a great film. My example [of the latter] is Mario Puzo’s […]
Who would’ve thought two 19th-century German nerds could cause such a stir? When Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm compiled their nation’s folklore in the Grimms’ Fairy Tales they sparked two centuries […]
Grief is born out of trauma and thrives in loneliness. Playwright Eboni Booth creates a devastating inner world of grief in Primary Trust and builds a shell of a world […]