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- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Sep 16, 2020
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BoHo and Lifeline examine the public and private split
The Pursuit of Happiness and Pride and Prejudice confront the limitations of Zoom culture with exhilarating results.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Aug 4, 2020
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ALAS and Of Dice and Men examine the vulnerability of social bonds
Trap Door reimagines its aesthetic for film; Otherworld films a onetime live performance (sans audience).
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Jul 14, 2020
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Streaming theater goes beyond Hamilton
The Public Theater, Black Lives, Black Words, and Hell in a Handbag put it all online.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 28, 2020
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A trilogy for times of terror
Three streaming productions give us plenty to ponder in the pandemic.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Apr 14, 2020
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Theater of isolation
Online theater pieces, both new and old, remind us to connect.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 24, 2020
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Methtacular! returns for an online-only engagement at 16th Street
Steven Strafford's solo remains honest and hilarious, even through a screen.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 20, 2020
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Teenage Dick livestreams Shakespeare by way of high school
Theater Wit's production about a disabled schemer carries on online.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 17, 2020
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The Two Character Play gets the context it deserves.
Tennessee Williams's oft-revised story delivers to arresting effect with Theatre L'Acadie.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 17, 2020
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Five Encounters on a Site Called Craigslist is introspective and interactive
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe hit offers an illuminating look at casual hookups.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 17, 2020
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Teddy Roosevelt: The Man in the Arena reminds us what a leader looks like
A solo show about the man behind Bull Moose stands alone.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 10, 2020
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Middletown skims the surface
A starry cast can't inject a lot of life into Dan Clancy's middlebrow story.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 10, 2020
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Black Ensemble Theater’s The Healing is saved by the audience
Jackie Taylor mixes history, personal essay, racial justice, and music to mixed effect.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 10, 2020
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Judy and Liza—Once in a Lifetime shows the bond between two divas
A cabaret homage to Garland and Minnelli lights up the Greenhouse.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 10, 2020
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Idle Muse's In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) amuses, but falls short
Sarah Ruhl examines old-fashioned female "hysteria" and newfangled treatments.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 10, 2020
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What the Constitution Means to Me means a lot for all of us
Heidi Schreck weaves together civics, feminism, and personal history in this vital production.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 10, 2020
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Chicago ain't ready for reform in Her Honor Jane Byrne
Lookingglass delivers a stunning world premiere about Chicago's first woman mayor, public housing, and race.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 6, 2020
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An Iliad returns in a stunning new setting
Court Theatre's revival puts us in the center of ancient artifacts and contemporary conundrums.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 3, 2020
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Haven hands us an extra-tense Titus Andronicus
Complicating gender and racial identity adds texture to the gory Shakespearean stew.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 3, 2020
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Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman is Gorey-meets-Kafka
Gift Theatre brings a dark fable to life.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 3, 2020
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Mrs. Warren's Profession confronts our hypocrisies about sex work
Elaine Carlson delivers a biting title performance for Promethean Theatre.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 3, 2020
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Middle Passage is part voyage of the damned, part picaresque
Lifeline's staging of Charles Johnson's novel has sea legs.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 3, 2020
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I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter is a resonant coming-of-age story
Erika L. Sánchez's novel gets a stellar stage life in Isaac Gómez's adaptation.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 3, 2020
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Here Lies Henry is daringly strange
Interrobang revives Daniel MacIvor's mind-bending solo about the art of lying.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 3, 2020
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Hedda Gabler: A Play With Live Music shows us a woman fighting for her voice
TUTA gives Ibsen's classic a contemporary musical update.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 3, 2020
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Day of Absence gets a rare revival with Congo Square
Douglas Turner Ward's 1965 satirical one-act holds more historic than contemporary interest.