Straight White Men: Brotherly Horseplay and Rejecting the American Dream
Matt rejects the American dream, but his father and brothers will have none of it. Straight white men rule the world. Matt has to be happy, use his skills and […]
Nancy S. Bishop is publisher and Stages editor of Third Coast Review. She’s a member of the American Theatre Critics Association and a 2014 Fellow of the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. You can read her personal writing on pop culture at nancybishopsjournal.com, and follow her on Twitter @nsbishop. She also writes about film, books, art, architecture and design.
Preview: New Irish Voices Festival by Irish Theatre of Chicago
Irish Theatre of Chicago will present staged readings from three emerging Irish playwrights three weekends this month at Chief O’Neill’s Pub on Elston Avenue. The plays, never before produced in […]
Teatro Vista’s The Wolf at the End of the Block Is a Thriller Set in Chicago’s Mean Streets
It’s the end of the evening, the end of The Wolf at the End of the Block. The lead character, Abe (Gabriel Ruiz) is in a bar, thinking about what […]
The Nether at A Red Orchid Predicts a Darker Side of the Web and Virtual Life
Jennifer Haley’s very contemporary play, The Nether, is set in a world we may find all too familiar. Neither real nor unreal. Mostly virtual, in fact, rather like our social media […]
Steep Theatre’s Earthquakes in London: A Sly, Carnival-Like Treatment of the Planet’s Demise
Three sisters. Estranged from their climate scientist father. Their lives each upended by climate change. And dozens of other characters. Steep Theatre’s U.S. premiere of Earthquakes in London spans eras […]
Gloria: Ambition and Desperation in a Toxic Office Environment
Have you ever worked in an office—creative or otherwise—where a bunch of young associates groused over their bosses, gossiped about their colleagues, and desperately sought promotion to the next step […]
Blues for an Alabama Sky Takes Us to 1930 Harlem, Where Dreams Are Made and Broken
The Harlem Renaissance was an era of great creativity in the arts that progressed through the 1920s, but the Great Depression hit many artists hard. Jobs were scarce and salaries […]
A Disappearing Number at Timeline Theatre Is a Joyous Intellectual Brain-Teaser
A Disappearing Number is a multi-layered, complex story of love and math over the course of a century. Timeline Theatre’s new production of the script by Complicité is mesmerizing, sometimes […]
Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice: A Quirky Twist on Greek Mythology at Promethean Theatre
Sarah Ruhl’s sweet, quirky Eurydice retells the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, but focuses on the bride rather than on the bereft groom. It’s a story of memory and regret, […]
Chicago Theaters to Participate in Ghostlight Project on Inauguration Eve
Chicago theaters will participate in the Ghostlight Project at 5:30pm on Thursday, January 19, to affirm their commitment to diversity and inclusion in advance of the Trump inauguration. Goodman, Steppenwolf, […]
ATC’s Men on Boats Surveys the American West and the Gender Landscape
Men on Boats, a regional premiere now on stage at American Theater Company, is the story of the 1869 exploration of the Green and Colorado rivers for the U.S. government. […]
Not Your President? Chicago Creative Community Schedules Anti-Trump Activism Events
Special thanks to the Facebook group Chicago Activist Writers who supplied many of the events and descriptions in this round-up. If you’re looking to attend readings and events surrounding and […]