- Performing Arts, Theater Review, Jun 13, 2013
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Collaboraction's Sketchbook could use a little curation
A program of shorts is the standout at the annual theater fest's bloated 13th incarnation.
- Performing Arts, Theater Review, Jun 6, 2013
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Two plays from Organic Theater Company explore the personal costs of freedom
In Albert Camus's Caligula and Slawomir Mrozek's The Emigrants, characters on opposite ends of the social spectrum share a common problem.
- Performing Arts, Theater Review, Jun 6, 2013
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Steppenwolf's Next Up strikes out
No home runs in the annual showcase for theater MFAs
- Performing Arts, Theater Review, May 30, 2013
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Growing up girl in The Miss Neo Pageant
The Neo-Futurists' new parody is a thoughtful look at a loaded word: feminist.
- Performing Arts, Theater Review, May 22, 2013
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The Misanthrope in black and white
Charles Newell's production of the Moliere comedy sends a confused racial message.
- Performing Arts, Theater Review, May 16, 2013
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Barbara Gaines goes all auteur on Henry VIII
Chicago Shakespeare Theater's production is undone by overdoing.
- Performing Arts, Theater Review, May 8, 2013
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Second-act troubles afflict By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
Promising at first, Lynn Nottage's ambitious play falls apart after intermission.
- Performing Arts, Theater Review, May 2, 2013
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Young guys attract old dolls in Pal Joey
Rodgers and Hart's 1940 musical, now in a new revival by Porchlight Music Theatre, pushed Broadway's buttons—and its boundaries.
- Performing Arts, Theater Review, May 1, 2013
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The Lake Effect keeps the mold intact
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo author Rajiv Joseph returns to his quirky/intimate style.
- 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, Theater Review, Mar 12, 2013
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How Long Will I Cry? puts a face on urban violence
DePaul prof Miles Harvey created a powerful piece of documentary-style theater.
- Performing Arts, Theater Review, Mar 6, 2013
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Are you going to the After Party?
Steppenwolf Theatre Company gives audiences something to see after Garage Rep.
- Performing Arts, Theater Review, Mar 6, 2013
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Garage Rep's fourth rep
Steppenwolf Theatre's annual showcase fills in the genre blanks.
- Performing Arts, Theater Review, Feb 27, 2013
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Wartime hijinks, presented with Improbable Frequency
A comic verse musical set in WWII, Strawdog Theatre Company puts the bard back in bombardment.
- Performing Arts, Theater Review, Feb 20, 2013
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Julius Caesar and Teddy Ferrara have tactical issues
Chicago Shakespeare and Goodman Theatre put on plays about power struggles.
- Performing Arts, Theater Review, Feb 13, 2013
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There's a disconnect in Disconnect
Victory Gardens Theater stages Anupama Chandrasekhar's play about alienation, disorientation, and all-around psychic pain at a Chennai, India, call center.
- Performing Arts, Theater Review, Feb 13, 2013
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In Lookingglass Theatre's Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, the big cat sleeps tonight
Heidi Stillman's staging of the play by Rajiv Joseph lacks a sense of urgency.
- Performing Arts, Theater Review, Feb 6, 2013
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Pinter's The Birthday Party, now
menace-freeAustin Pendleton directs John Mahoney and Moira Harris in the Steppenwolf Theatre production of Harold Pinter’s early play.
- Performing Arts, Theater Review, Jan 30, 2013
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The Whipping Man goes south
Matthew Lopez's play shows its seams in a Northlight Theatre production.
- Performing Arts, Theater Review, Jan 30, 2013
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A writer picks at the family scab in Other Desert Cities
Jon Robin Baitz tells the secrets of a Palm Springs family.
