Review< At Theater Wit, Who’s Holiday Will Melt Your Frozen Heart With Laughter
It wouldn’t be a holiday season without the Whos of Whoville, but who would have thought that the Whos could be so judgy and mean when it comes to affairs […]
Review: In Their New, Permanent Home, American Blues Theater’s It’s a Wonderful Life! Live in Chicago Is More Festive Than Ever
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Review: Griffin Theatre’s The House Without a Christmas Tree Portrays Nostalgia in Nebraska
Sam Hook, Andrew Greiche, Julia Limoncelli and Molly Clemente. Photo by Michael Brosilow
Review: TUTA Theatre’s The Long Christmas Dinner Brings Refreshing Sadness to a Saccharine Season
The holidays are a weird time for critics. We stand by mouths agape as an entire nation, again, infantilizes itself with saccharine songs and schmaltzy movies. Critics in December who […]
Review: The Secret Garden at Theo Ubique Delivers on Beauty and Catharsis
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Review: At Raven Theatre, The Comedians Tells a Love Story and More—Through Standup Acts
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Review: Seven Guitars by City Lit Needs Some Fine Tuning
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Review: The Tragedy of Macbeth by Invictus Theatre Suffers from Uneven Acting and Pacing
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Review: DOGS by Red Theater Portrays Five Women in Red-Hot Competition
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Review: Mercy Killing Brings Anxious Queerness, Murder, and Romance to Open Space Arts
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Review: Kokandy’s Into the Woods Depicts a Marvelous Forest, Bumps Into a Few Trees
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 […]
Review: In Remy Bumppo’s Dear Elizabeth, Two Poets Reflect on Their Lives and Work in Their Letters
A pair of poets, in love with words, are sort of, possibly, in love with each other. Or not. That’s the theme of Dear Elizabeth, an epistolary play by Sarah Ruhl. […]