The American musical theater has been graced with another revival of Company, Stephen Sondheim’s and George Furth’s 1970 musical about our basic human need for togetherness. In this 2021 Broadway […]
The house of Bernarda Alba has had a makeover. If you are familiar with the 1936 play by Federico Garcia Lorca, you may gain new insights about it when you see ¡Bernarda!, its […]
The truth doesn’t matter. That’s the premise and it’s repeated throughout the performance of Rosenberg, a new play being staged by Open Space Arts, and directed by Michael D. Graham. Set in […]
Youth is wasted on the young, the saying goes. But would we want youth any later in life? Beth Hyland’s Seagulls, now playing at Oak Park Festival Theatre, serves as a […]
The moment I made my way down the stairs of the St. Bonaventure Church community hall, it was 1968 in my head. Was it a coincidence that my earliest Catholic […]
Mel Brooks is one of the great comic geniuses of our time and he has said that Young Frankenstein was his favorite film. From that comic lunacy came the musical […]
A ghost story requires that one suspends belief. Having grown up Catholic, I know all about suspending belief just from memorizing the Baltimore Catechism when purgatory was a real threat. […]
Puppeteer Sam Lewis. Puppets by Emilie Wingate and Tom Lee. Photo Credit: Yvette Marie Dostatni
Caftans!!!… Statement Jewelry!!!… Plot-driven Thrillers on Stage!!!… Yes, it’s the ’70s again at Raven Theatre as they present the first show of their 41st season—a revival of Lucille Fletcher’s woman-in-peril […]
Review by Anthony Neri.es Tambo & Bones has come to Chicago, presented by Refracted Theatre Co. at the Den Theatre. It’s dense and thought-provoking like a treatise with a burning thesis, […]
Eurydice: “I read a book today.” Orpheus: “Did you?” Eurydice: “Yes. It was very interesting… There were—stories—about people’s lives—how some come out well— others come out badly.” Orpheus: “Do you […]
Playwright Juan Ramirez’s The American Dream seems to be taken from the stories that are kept out of the headlines. It is the story of a “coyote,” Efren (Jorge Aguilar), […]