Goodman’s Blind Date Stars the World on the Cusp of Change
The blind date actually took place on November 19, 1985, in Geneva. Nothing much happened diplomatically; the world order wasn’t changed. But the two leaders of the U.S. and the […]
Tony Winner The Humans Returns to Chicago Better Than Ever
The 70th Tony Awards, presented in June 2016, were an affair to remember in more ways than one. It was the year Hamilton won big. It was the year Cynthia […]
Porchlight’s Dynamic Merrily We Roll Along Puts Energy in Ever-Poignant Sondheim
In 1981, Stephen Sondheim and Harold Prince collaborated with writer George Furth for a new musical based on a 1934 play, Merrily We Roll Along. The show was to be […]
We the People: The Anti-Trump Musical Fails to Soar
It’s pretty hard to look away from the events in this country as late, and it’d be a surprise to find anyone who didn’t at least have an elementary grasp on […]
1960s Nuclear Fears Animate We’re Gonna Be Okay at American Theater Company
We’re Gonna Be Okay is a cold-war era story that reminds us that when danger is in the air, it’s time to take stock of our priorities—and give a little […]
Hinter at Steep Theatre A Haunting, Thought-Provoking Thriller
A horror lived daily haunts deeper than any ghost could. Hinter by Chicago playwright Calamity West starts with a bang and leaves you on the edge of your seat the […]
All My Sons at Court Theatre: A Classic Tragedy Punches You in the Gut
Charles Newell’s production of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons at Court Theatre is an emotionally wrenching tragedy. Secrets and lies that have been hidden for years are gradually teased out. […]
Second City’s She the People Zips by the Nuances
Just in time for the Second Annual Women’s March, the Second City remounts the sketch show She the People: Girlfriends’ Guide to Sisters Doing It For Themselves at the UP […]
Whistleblower Disrupts Small Town Life in Red Orchid’s Traitor
As if to prove you can out-Ibsen Ibsen, playwright Brett Neveu has taken Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play, An Enemy of the People, and transmogrified it into a contemporary setting. Neveu […]
Small Cast Delivers Powerful Punch in Rivendell Theatre’s Cal in Camo
Rivendell Theater Ensemble is staging the midwest premiere of William Francis Hoffman’s Cal in Camo, a stark, sharp story of a woman struggling to bond with her newborn, the long-lost […]
A Soldier’s Journal Weaves Together History and Romance in Yank! A WWII Love Story
A soldier’s journal is the thread that weaves together the characters and the story in Yank! A WWII Love Story over 75 years. Today, a young man (Matthew Huston) finds […]
TimeLine’s Boy Tells Story of Generation X’s Adam
TimeLine Theatre’s Chicago premiere of Anna Ziegler’s Boy (where the play was also workshopped in 2014) is inspired by the true story of a Canadian male child born physically male […]