Three ageless witchy sisters live together in a basement apartment in Bushwick, a Brooklyn neighborhood something like Edgewater or Andersonville. Wyrd is a 2018 play written by Matt Minnicino that […]
Amiri Baraka was still LeRoi Jones when he wrote Dutchman in 1964. The play, now being staged by Trap Door Theatre, is an early dialogue on race, class and power. […]
Oak is my third experience with the work of playwright Terry Guest. His work reveals the visceral aspects of the Black experience in America with stark realism, some magical realism, […]
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 […]
Ah… 1960. Smack-dab in the middle of post-war prosperity and (unknowingly) on the brink of enormous change. Has Broadway ever brimmed with more confidence or more cultural clout? Poised roughly […]
I like to think of Mo Willems’ beloved character the Pigeon as the Gordon Ramsay of the children’s literature world. He has a seemingly hard, brutish shell, but he is […]
Elizabeth McGovern. Photo by Jeff Lorch
Goodman Theatre is offering us all an inside view of its century of theater history with a costume shop sale taking place on Saturday, October 11, at the theater. Individual […]
From the writing team of EllaRose Chary and Brandon James, TL;DR: Thelma Louise; Dyke Remix premiered in 2024 at Diversionary Theatre in San Diego. This fall, the rock musical is […]
Lauren Gunderson’s 2017 play, The Book of Will, is a Shakespearean tale that takes place after the Bard dies. It would have been a tragedy if the King’s Men had […]
Goodman Theatre’s new play, Ashland Avenue, is a love letter to 1980s Chicago. The character who epitomizes that era is Pete, proprietor of Pete’s TV and Video, who founded and […]
Two sisters. Ash, the elder, has a professional job with a good income. Harley, the younger sister, inherits the family home when their father dies. “Probably because he thought I’d […]