Over the last few years, Chicago’s young Gwydion Theatre Company has proven itself a reliable protectorate of great literature. In October, I favorably reviewed its production of Death of a […]
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 […]
He may currently live in Los Angeles but Mitchell Bisschop grew up in Chicago and recently returned for the run of his one man show, Royko: The Toughest Man in […]
“This isn’t just some silly game. I’ve got no time left.” Alice (Caitlyn Cerza) is lying about with the Caterpillar (Elliott Esquivel) and Cheshire Cat (Mizha Overn). The duo convinced […]
Turret, a new show written and directed by Chicago playwright Levi Holloway, is born from a cinematic legacy of horror, apocalypse, and suspense, and it uses the mechanisms of live […]
A Red Orchid Theatre’s newest production Turret is a world premiere written and directed by Levi Holloway, whose recent works have included a Broadway run of his play Grey House, […]
“The world is full of pain as is. Instead, let’s talk about love!” PM Theater’s administrative producer Anna Bredikhina kicks off the top of the show with this sentiment. After […]
Puppets have stories to tell. And they tell them in all sorts of fanciful and humanistic ways. The 6th annual Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival has come to an end […]
American Psycho as originally conceived by author Bret Easton Ellis has a great elevator pitch. “A novel about an investment banker in the Reagan eighties who at night becomes a […]
In The Dream King by Teatro Vista, creator Marvin Quijada as Sam performs a magical if familiar story in movement and original music. It’s a “silent musical “ about a man in […]
If we depended on the news media to learn the history of the island nation of Haiti, we would not know a lot of substance. Various dictators, earthquakes, and humanitarian […]
Molly Sweeney is an independent middle-aged woman who lives in Donegal. She has a job, a husband, friends, social activities, and she loves to swim in the sea. She has […]