Review: Little Shop Of Horrors Invades Mercury Theater
Little Shop of Horrors holds a special place in my heart. I first saw the 1986 movie adaptation when I was young, and it gave me a love for goofy, off-brand […]
New York Review: Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano in a True West That Flips the American Dream
True West, Roundabout Theatre’s staging of the Sam Shepard play, stars two fine actors—Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano. It’s a play that descends from brotherly rivalry to rage and chaos, […]
Review: Poetry of Men in Two Pints by Abbey Theatre at Chicago Shakes
Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, Chicago Shakespeare brings us the esteemed Abbey Theatre (the National Theatre of Ireland) and a poetic two-handed conversation, Two Pints. The Irish pub holds […]
Review: Dutch Masters Is a Gripping Two Hander at Jackalope Theatre Company
Dutch Masters, Greg Keller’s superbly taut two-hander receiving a gutsy Midwest premiere at Jackalope Theatre, is a play of mounting tension and slow reveals–the piece demands that the duo of […]
New York Review: Irish Rep Explores Ireland in Civil War With The Shadow of a Gunman
Third Coast Review’s chief theater critic is spending the month of March in New York. This is is the first of her dispatches on New York theater and other […]
Review: I Wanna Fucking Tear You Apart Is a Friendship Laid Bare at Rivendell
I Wanna Fucking Tear You Apart is a sometimes raunchy, sometimes enlightening look at relationships and co-dependence, offering a twist on the traditional romantic dynamics; our main focus is not […]
Review: Drury Lane’s Mamma Mia Knocks It Out of the Park
What can I say about Mamma Mia that hasn’t already been said? It’s an international phenomenon, with a Broadway run that spanned 14 years, has been adapted into two movies, with all […]
Review: Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde; ‘Genderblind’ and Disobedient to the Core
Imagine Oscar Wilde, the man who practically invented epigrams (the antiquated version of a verbal burn), standing trial, and being bullied into reframing his aestheticism in to something callous and […]
Review: A Gut-Check For Our Time in Classic An Inspector Calls at Chicago Shakes
Without ever brandishing so much as a pistol or pocketknife, upheaval and conflict are at the center of J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls, a play that lays out in no uncertain […]
Review: Rebecca Gilman’s Twilight Bowl: Small Town Life With No Escape Route?
Four young women in a small-town Wisconsin bar, with a bowling alley beyond. It’s a story of their lives, their sorrows, their limited futures. Bowling is a side activity for […]
Review: Lyric’s La Traviata Offers Familiarity Through First-Rate Performances
As operas go, La Traviata is perhaps among the best known. Giuseppe Verdi’s adaptation (with a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave) of a play that itself was based on a novel by […]
Review: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, August Wilson’s Essential Chicago Masterpiece, Sings at Writers Theatre
August Wilson famously tackled the entirety of the 20th century with his poetic works of human tragedy and mythic resilience. Wilson’s plays like to live in the same Pittsburgh neighborhood […]