Review: Falling Into Folklore at the Evanston Folk Festival
It may not officially be fall, but there is a change in the air. The lighting, the crisp colors, the leaves starting to change, and the cool breeze accompanying the […]
Review: Speak No Evil Offers a Slightly Milder Adaptation of a Thriller Where Manners Matter
Shortly after watching Speak No Evil, I went back to my original review of the 2022 Danish horror sensation of the same name directed by Christian Tafdrup, and noticed that […]
Review: Dame Jane Glover, Anthony McGill, and Music of the Baroque Orchestra Give a Spirited Performance at Ravinia
Under the direction of Dame Jane Glover, Music of the Baroque Orchestra gave a spirited performance of musical chestnuts at Ravinia’s Martin Theater on Tuesday night. In doing so, it […]
Review: Oil Lamp Theater’s First Date—Millennial Romcom of Cringe and Courtship
First Date, directed by Christina Ramirez, with a script by Austin Winsberg, slams us with all the goofs and hiccups of modern dating, which, without the bubbly, rambunctious soundtrack and […]
Bites: What Theater Artist Mitchell Bisschop Eats in a Day
He may currently live in Los Angeles but Mitchell Bisschop grew up in Chicago and recently returned for the run of his one man show, Royko: The Toughest Man in […]
Review: Three Sisters Converge Around Their Dying Father in His Three Daughters, a Moving, Tense Family Drama
The things that bring family together, when simply being related isn’t enough of a reason to do so—this is the running theme of writer/director Azarel Jacobs’ (Terri, The Lovers, French […]
Review: Gwydion Theatre’s This Is Our Youth Portrays a Slice of 1982 Manhattan Life…in Existential Crisis
Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth takes us back 40-some years … to an era when heavy-duty drugs were not only a path to pleasure (and sometimes pain) but the coinage of […]
Review: Tim Burton Returns to Weird in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, a Creative and Nostalgic Sequel
Filmmaker Tim Burton has garnered a reputation as a visionary and for being quite odd, and there’s nothing out there that says the two can’t be contained in a single […]
Chicago Is Lit: Printers Row Lit Fest and More September Events
Avid book lovers can be a solitary bunch—after all, it’s hard to lug our stacks (and stacks) of books around a party. But that is exactly what’s about to go […]
Essay: Film Adaptation of It Ends With Us Broaches a Serious Topic Without Making It Weird
This post was written by Tory Crowley. It Ends With Us doesn’t market itself as a sad, serious drama addressing the complexities of intimate partner violence. I mean, who would […]
Review: Merchant Ivory Chronicles the Professional and Personal Lives of Legendary Filmmaking Duo
Few filmmakers merged the personal and professional as gracefully as producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory. Their partnership ushered in the Golden Age of art-house cinema in the mid-1980s, […]
Review: Casey Affleck Stars in Slingshot, a Space Drama That Puts a Trio of Astronauts on an Uncertain Mission
While this new Casey Affleck-starring work, Slingshot, is set up like a science-fiction story, in reality it’s a tense acting exercise couched in a psychological thriller. The whole thing is […]