Last Night and the Night Before at Steppenwolf Theatre is a tale of complex family relationships crippled by drug use and violence—but with love as the overriding theme. Donnetta Lavinia Grays’ […]
Oscar Wilde is remembered for being a poet and playwright as well as the victim of a criminal conviction for “gross indecency” because of consensual homosexual acts. He possessed a […]
‘Perceptions Theatre and Prop Thtr are staging the rolling world premiere of India Nicole Burton’s Panther Women: An Army for the Liberation, a choreopoem focusing on the female force behind […]
One of Milwaukee’s newer theaters, The Constructivists, ends its fifth season with a crowd-pleasing production of Halley Feiffer’s I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard. In this 2015 play, a […]
Galileo’s Daughter, a world premiere being presented by Remy Bumppo Theatre, is more a meditation on family and science than a play in a strictly theatrical sense. The story is […]
For more than 35 years, Robert Falls has led the Goodman Theatre to become one of the country’s very best regional houses. Past triumphs include both starry Broadway transfers (Night […]
I remember Alanis Morrisette back in the mid-’90s on MTV. Her album Jagged Little Pill was ubiquitous on the radio and on a continuous loop in my daughter’s bedroom. The […]
Annie & her aunts gather around the kitchen table, sharing stories & updates. It seems quite idyllic until all hell breaks loose in Motherhouse. Seated left to right: Jessica Ervin, Mary Cross, Meighan Gerachis, Jane Baxter Miller & Tara Mallen.
Near the end of A Soldier’s Play, set on a segregated Army base in the Jim Crow South in 1944, a white captain says to his Black counterpart, “I was wrong […]
Ida is smart and tough. She’s mayor and police chief in her new town of Progress, but she still can’t get the pump to pump water. At least that’s the […]
Although Semyon, played by Daniel Shtivelberg, the main character of Moira Buffini’s play Dying For It, lives in post-revolutionary Russia, his struggles are pointedly timeless and engender a theatergoer’s sympathy. […]
Survival of the fittest means that a species that adapts to its environment will be the best suited to reproduce—aka Darwinism. Playwright Jacqueline Goldfinger’s Babel presents a dystopian view of […]