Stray seems to be a bit of a phenomenon. It has a bit of a “right place, right time” feeling to it—or a PR firm that really knew when or […]

Christine stands, spotlighted, center stage, and begins to tell her story. She’s blonde and fair, middle-aged, wearing a light blue coat that looks as if it might be too warm. […]

Boas! Feathers! Dance hits of the ’70s! The Mercury Theater’s production of Priscilla Queen of the Desert—the Musical had plenty of all three. There was a core fan base of […]

In October 1971, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice debuted their new rock opera, a reimagining of the greatest story ever told…well, a portion of it, at least. In 90 […]

I suppose it wouldn’t take that much of a suspension of belief to assume the government would hire professional killers to do its dirty work from time to time; I […]

Perhaps that headline made you think, Oh no, not Midsummer Night’s Dream again. But seeing Shakespeare’s Athenian woodland fantasy in an actual park, among the trees and grass with an urban soundscape […]

In the world of Jane Austen adaptations, there’s always room for creativity. From Hulu’s recent Fire Island, reimagining Pride & Prejudice on the gay party island, to my personal favorite, […]

I almost didn’t request a ticket to review this show when I saw that it is a play about depression and suicide. I didn’t know if it was going to […]

This is an odd little movie based on an improbably popular novel by Delia Owens (adapted by Lucy Alibar, Beasts of the Southern Wild) and starring rising talent Daisy Edgar-Jones (Fresh, “Normal People”) as Kya, a young woman living in the marshlands of Barkley Cover, North Carolina, where she was abandoned by her family at a young age and grew to respect and eventually catalog the wildlife around her.

In 1907, John Millington Synge’s landmark Playboy of the Western World caused riots everywhere it premiered—Dublin, New York, and even, eventually, here in Chicago. Irish patriots claimed the play portrayed […]

My mother took me to the Art Institute of Chicago when I was very young and let me pick out postcards of my favorite paintings. I chose mostly Impressionists such […]

It’s a credit to Leonard Cohen, the great Canadian author, poet, songwriter and performer, that his song, “Hallelujah” plays across a significant portion of Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine’s new […]