Review: Females Seek Agency in Remy Bumppo’s Top Girls
Note: Top Girls was reviewed by Karin McKie and Kim Campbell on Women’s March weekend. Caryl Churchill wrote Top Girls in 1982, in the middle of Margaret Thatcher’s 1979-90 fraught, […]
Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 1/23 – 1/26
Cold, snowy, and rainy days are ahead of us, but that shouldn’t stop you from having a great weekend. There’s so much to do in the city from concerts to […]
Chicago’s Youth Orchestra Rides Winged Creatures to Sunday’s Grammys
The GRAMMY Awards will be aired Sunday night on the CBS television network, and Chicago’s classical music fans have a major rooting interest. Winged Creatures, a locally produced album, […]
Review: Shattered Globe’s Sheepdog Tells an All-Too-Familiar Story About Police Shootings
Alton Sterling. Laquan McDonald. Walter Scott. Michael Brown. Greg Gunn. Philando Castile. Some of those names might come to mind as you watch the tense, even-handed police thriller, Sheepdog, by […]
13 Video Games We’re Looking Forward to the Most in 2020
2020 is going to be a banner year for video games. It marks the last year of the current console generation ,and anyone should know, that’s when some of […]
Review: Star Wars: Battlefront 2 Strikes Back
Without question, Star Wars: Battlefront 2 had a rough launch back in 2017. The highly anticipated title as it was at release, when we first reviewed it, was not […]
Review: Dudok Quartet Amsterdam Gave an Inspired Performance
Dudok Quartet Amsterdam returned to the Northwestern Winter Chamber Music Festival on Sunday evening with a program of music from France, with a work by the Austrian Franz Joseph Haydn […]
Review: The Gulf by About Face Theatre—Two Women Stuck in a Relationship—and a Fishing Boat
Two women on a fishing boat in the Alabama Delta. One casts and sometimes reels in…nothing. The other alternately suns, dozes and reads. It’s late afternoon on a hot, humid […]
Review: Cherry Glazerr Rocks the House at Lincoln Hall
Cherry Glazerr performed a dynamic set at the first show of their two-night performance at Lincoln Hall. Despite it being a chilly evening, the band got everyone’s blood pumping and […]
Review: Aiming to Inspire, Troop Zero is Far Too Twee
Jim Gaffigan has no fewer than nine credits to his name for 2019, from the beautifully rendered Light From Light to a voice role in Playmobil: The Movie, one of the year’s […]
Review: The Tragic Trajectory of Sisters, Invisible Life is a Sweeping Mid-Century Drama
A sweeping drama about two sisters who lose track of each other but never forget one another, Invisible Life navigates the internal and external lives of two very different women connected […]
Review: Sunday Evening Is an Entertaining Debut for Rose Valley Theatre Group
Rose Valley Theatre Group, Chicago’s newest theater company, makes its debut with the first English language production of Sunday Evening, a play by Zachary Karabashliev, a Bulgarian playwright. You might […]