- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Feb 2, 2012
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Beethoven and Quasimodo at an academic conference
Two famous figures pursue an impossible sound in Theater Oobleck's The Hunchback Variations Opera
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Feb 2, 2012
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The Age of Arrogance
Timeline Theatre brings back the ugliness of it all with Enron
- 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
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Jan 26, 2012
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Singing the anger of the American black man
Court Theatre opens a new adaptation of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Jan 19, 2012
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Today’s news yesterday
The 65-year-old debate portrayed in Lookingglass Theatre's "Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting" still goes on
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Jan 5, 2012
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The not nice Minnesotans of "Generation Bitch"
"Local bowling team meets the Supremes" and more at Links Hall
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Dec 29, 2011
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Our favorite theater of 2011
Ten favorite shows from 2011, plus five honorable mentions
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Dec 15, 2011
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Trapped in the stables in a play about the Virgin Queen
Timothy Findley's Elizabeth Rex at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Dec 15, 2011
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Despite the Speedos . . .
Steppenwolf’s production of Enda Walsh’s Penelope could use some oomph
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Dec 8, 2011
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Up close but impersonal at Griffin Theatre
Some things work in this black box version of Spring Awakening, some don't
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Dec 1, 2011
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The Tea Party Scrooge
Goodman Theatre supplies A Christmas Carol for the year of the 99 percent
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Nov 23, 2011
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Fresh space, old story
Black Ensemble debuts its new digs with a revival of The Jackie Wilson Story
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Nov 23, 2011
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Sing, goddess, of An Iliad
Court Theatre's great production of a 90-minute monologue based on Homer's The Iliad
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Nov 17, 2011
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Was it good for us?
Love isn’t all that free in an entertaining, oddly prudish revival of Let My People Come
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Nov 10, 2011
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Brave old world
Weary moderns escape to a retro fantasy in Next Theatre's Maple and Vine
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Nov 10, 2011
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Three plays at Steppenwolf's First Look Repertory
The yearnings of rehab refugees, unmoored Manhattanites, and a serial killer
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Nov 3, 2011
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Breaking down hardened gender identities
In Factor Ricochet, choreographer Rachel Damon looks at who it is we think we are
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Oct 27, 2011
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Cloud 9 is so 20th century
Caryl Churchill's 1979 satire shows its age in a Gift Theatre production
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Oct 27, 2011
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Playwright Martin McDonagh's severed hand
Profiles Theatre gets to the heart of the violence in A Behanding in Spokane
- Performing Arts, Performing Arts Review, Oct 20, 2011
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Stephen Sondheim can do no wrong, right?
Follies at Chicago Shakespeare Theater suggests otherwise
