Second City’s She the People Zips by the Nuances
Just in time for the Second Annual Women’s March, the Second City remounts the sketch show She the People: Girlfriends’ Guide to Sisters Doing It For Themselves at the UP […]
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Review: Whistleblower Disrupts Small Town Life in Red Orchid’s Traitor
As if to prove you can out-Ibsen Ibsen, playwright Brett Neveu has taken Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play, An Enemy of the People, and transmogrified it into a contemporary setting. Neveu […]
Small Cast Delivers Powerful Punch in Rivendell Theatre’s Cal in Camo
Rivendell Theater Ensemble is staging the midwest premiere of William Francis Hoffman’s Cal in Camo, a stark, sharp story of a woman struggling to bond with her newborn, the long-lost […]
A Soldier’s Journal Weaves Together History and Romance in Yank! A WWII Love Story
A soldier’s journal is the thread that weaves together the characters and the story in Yank! A WWII Love Story over 75 years. Today, a young man (Matthew Huston) finds […]
TimeLine’s Boy Tells Story of Generation X’s Adam
TimeLine Theatre’s Chicago premiere of Anna Ziegler’s Boy (where the play was also workshopped in 2014) is inspired by the true story of a Canadian male child born physically male […]
Linda Reiter Becomes the Queen Mother of Camelot in Rose
Rose Kennedy, the “queen mother” of Camelot, is nearing her 79th birthday. She’s well dressed, well coifed, calm and self-assured. She moves like a 79-year-old woman, slowly, a bit creakily. […]
Shattered Globe’s Five Mile Lake Explores Dreams and Despair in a Small Town
The headlines are about major cities declining—in population, in industry, in jobs. But smaller cities are changing too as revolutions in manufacturing, agriculture and mining affect small cities and towns, […]
TV Review: The Outrageous Fortune of Free Slings & Arrows
Like Hamlet’s murdered dad, the award-winning Canadian TV series Slings & Arrows has been resurrected, now for free on the Internets so all can experience or revisit the fraught fictional […]
At Stage Left Theatre: Insurrection: Holding History Time Travels to Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion and Back
Insurrection: Holding History by Robert O’Hara is a satirical, time-traveling look at our history of slavery and repression, race and identity. O’Hara turns time on its head to take us […]
Theater Wit’s Flamingo & Decatur Takes a Gamble and Doesn’t Quite Break Even
Flamingo & Decatur, the world-premiere play by Todd Taylor now on through February 18 at Theater Wit in the Belmont Theater District, is a bit of a cross-country sort of […]
Edgar Allan Poe’s Life and Death Get a Melancholy Production by Black Button Eyes
Black Button Eyes’ darkly gothic production of Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe makes good use of the Edge Theatre’s spacious proscenium stage. The six performers […]
It’s My Penis and I’ll Cry If I Want To Confronts Gender Politics at Pride Arts Center
It’s My Penis and I’ll Cry If I Want To is a 45-minute one-man show exploring the nuances of gender, often humorously, always movingly and inextricably linked to the many […]