Linda’s playing at Steep Theatre through the 15th of this month and if you want to see something that will nourish your mind for days to come, you might want to drop by and check it out. It’s very very female. Exceedingly muscular. And it completely chucks convention for the sake of honesty which …
Eclipse Theater’s season of Inge continues at the Athenaeum with a mild adaptation of one of his most famous works, Bus Stop. The current production, running through August 19th, captures a sense of the times before digging to find how desperation and hope can sometimes lead to positive outcomes. Debuting in the early 50’s, the …
Mies Julie closed late last month at Victory Garden and left us scratching our heads a bit as we thought about what we saw. If you came to the play blind and unfamiliar with August Strindberg’s original work, you took everything you saw and heard on face value because you didn’t know what this adaptation …
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Taking a radical approach to experiencing live theater, Southern Gothic now playing at the Windy City Playhouse through July removes the barrier of distance between the action and the audience. It’s not a new idea, but immersive theater remains a groundbreaking concept and one many audiences would love to see emulated. Built around a solid …
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Underbellies are seldom pleasant places. You see disturbing things there. Things that may even make you angry. Things like you’ll see and hear at Steep Theater’s take no prisoners production of Birdland; a splendid riff on a Patti Smith poem of the same name about the dark side of fame. Because Birdland so ruthlessly …
By allowing us to better understand others, theater helps us understand ourselves. Lettie, a play that quickly draws you in and keeps your curiosity stimulated throughout intensifies our awareness of released felons; an invisible class of people who is as marginalized as it is huge. A commissioned work for Victory Gardens by playwright Boo Killebrew, …
Opening its new season with William Inge’s Natural Affection, Eclipse Theatre reintroduces us to the bold brilliance of one of the country’s most intrepid playwrights. Writing in the 50’s and 60’s, his stories never shy away from the pain in life and are willing to expose those deep hurts that shape lives for better or …
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Something about the Goodman’s production of An Enemy of the People seems as intent on exposing the cost of extreme naiveté as it is to brandish a fallacy. The fallacy is that the majority is always right. Adapted from Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play of the same name, The Goodman successfully shows how relevant Ibsen’s play …
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If simmering crowd energy tells you anything about how good a show is going to be, She the People: Girlfriends’ Guide to Sisters Doing It for Themselves on a return run at Second City, promised to be a lot more than a little bit fun. The pre-show soundtrack was jumping and you could almost smell …
A line in Blind Date states, “we are the sum of our choices”. It’s an apt sentiment describing playwright Rogelio Martinez’s story about a 1985 meeting of titans in Geneva, Switzerland during the waning years of the Cold War. The United States and Russia hadn’t been talking for years. An ominous pall that had been …