- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Apr 16, 2013
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The Elephant and the Whale plot an escape from the circus
Cross-species friendship is the key to a heartfelt, all-ages production from Redmoon and Chicago Children's Theatre.
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Apr 3, 2013
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Esoteric, demanding Trap Door Theatre is off-Loop and all right
The Word Progress on My Mother’s Lips Doesn't Ring True exemplifies the possibilities of fringe theater in Chicago.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 1, 2013
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Red Theater tackles obscenity, nudity, honesty, and poop in a new doc
The Fourth Wall: A Red Theater Documentary screens twice in Chicago, starting tonight.
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Mar 26, 2013
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The triumph of Red Hamlet
Red Theater's radical Shakespeare revision is an exercise in instability.
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Mar 21, 2013
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Shakespeare goes to Gotham City
Robert Falls achieves a half measure of success in dark, unruly Measure for Measure.
- Performing Arts, Theater Review, Mar 13, 2013
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A doctor recalls Lincoln's final hours in An American Story for Actor and Orchestra
Hershey Felder fails to save the 16th president—or the script.
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Feb 5, 2013
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There is an astonishment that There Is a Happiness That Morning Is is
Theater Oobleck remounts the 2011 hit by Mickle Maher.
- Performing Arts, Theater Review, Jan 23, 2013
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The 2013 Rhinofest roundup
Reviews of shows from the opening weekend of the six-week fringe festival.
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Dec 12, 2012
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The Glass Menagerie, inside out
Mary-Arrchie Theatre gives the Tennessee Williams classic a powerful revisionist staging
- Performing Arts, Theater Review, Nov 28, 2012
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The ho ho ho show review
Reader critics weigh in on eight new holiday shows
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Nov 7, 2012
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Listen up, playwrights! And avoid Bulrusher's three fatal flaws
A brief tutorial on modern drama, illustrated with examples from Eisa Davis's play
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Sep 26, 2012
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Chops at last!
Pulitzer winner David Lindsay-Abaire finally shows promise with Good People
- Galleries & Museums, Art Feature, Sep 12, 2012
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One to watch this fall: Offbeat performance collective Lucky Pierre
A hundred artistic acts of torture, right at your fingertips
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Aug 22, 2012
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Party House of Usher
Sean Graney blows a hole through Poe's dismal, compelling short story
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Jul 11, 2012
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Getting to the meat of Three Sisters
Steppenwolf cracks Chekhov's hardest nut
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, May 16, 2012
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Bad cop, bad cop
Chicago police get ugly in My Kind of Town and The Whole World Is Watching
- Performing Arts, Theater Review, Apr 25, 2012
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Devices obvious and mechanical
Even Profiles Theatre can't find depth in Neil LaBute's In a Forest, Dark and Deep
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Mar 20, 2012
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Not much crackles in Northlight Theatre's Ten Chimneys
Playwright Jeffrey Hatcher doesn't put much at stake for his characters, which include Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, and Uta Hagen
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Mar 7, 2012
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Talking while Africa burns
Danai Gurira's The Convert leaves us praying for something more than debate
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Jan 26, 2012
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After a hiatus from reality, Mamet's back
Race marks a return to form—sort of
