- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 14, 2017
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Ostensibly a comedy, Victory Gardens' Native Gardens terrifies
A poisonous dispute over two feet of dirt
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 14, 2017
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White folks! Prepare to squirm!
Steppenwolf’s Pass Over is unflinching on the war against young black men.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 7, 2017
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Writers Theatre’s Parade is a powerful—and surprisingly charming—musical about a rape-murder and a lynching
Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown’s Tony Award winner gives us a love story set in hell.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 7, 2017
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The gripping Bright Half Life shows small choices with cataclysmic consequences
Tanya Barfield’s clear-eyed play follows two women over the course of their five-decade-long lesbian relationship.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 31, 2017
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Q: What’s more of a mess than Tonya Harding?
A: Her story as told in American Theater Company’s T.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 24, 2017
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Silk Road Rising’s Great Expectations is less a morality tale than a tale of easy moralizing
In an adaptation that puts Pip in India under the Raj, there’s no way for him to succeed without betraying his heritage.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 24, 2017
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The message of Court Theatre’s Harvey? Don’t worry—be happy
Mary Chase’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1945 comedy was and remains a sweet break from the general awfulness.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 17, 2017
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A fact-based drama at the Goodman explores the psychic and moral costs of survival
In Objects in the Mirror, a refugee’s troubles aren’t over when he reaches safety.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 11, 2017
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Seeing tomorrow’s subscription season today at Louisville’s Humana Festival
The seedbed for new plays has a winner in Chelsea Marcantel's Airness.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 3, 2017
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Playwright David Adjmi tears the cushions off Three’s Company
3C—get it?—is a dark parody of the old sitcom.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 3, 2017
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Lyric Opera’s Fair Lady is most fair indeed
There's no need to worry about the company’s staging of Lerner and Loewe's classic musical.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Apr 26, 2017
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Live from La Havana Madrid
Teatro Vista’s immersive show re-creates a Latino nightclub in its 60s heyday.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Apr 26, 2017
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16th Street Theater brings Into the Beautiful North beautifully to life
Karen Zacarías’s stage adaptation of the beloved novel by Chicago writer Luis Alberto Urrea is sly and sharp—and faithful in its fashion.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Apr 19, 2017
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There’s no mystery in Writers Theatre’s The Mystery of Love and Sex
Instead of answers, Bathsheba Doran’s play offers contrivance.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Apr 12, 2017
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Tracy Letts and Louis C.K.: Peas in a pod?
The bad-boy playwright is true to himself in Steppenwolf’s Linda Vista.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Apr 5, 2017
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Lookinglass's Beyond Caring shows us how the sausage gets made
Temp workers toil in this immersive play set in a factory.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 23, 2017
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In the hands of Will Davis, Picnic becomes a fluid—and gender-fluid—ballet
American Theater Company’s tribute to playwright William Inge is all about the motion.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 22, 2017
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Theater Wit’s 10 Out of 12 isn’t about keeping us on the edge of our seats
Anne Washburn’s behind-the-scenes play re-creates the drudgery of a tech rehearsal.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 22, 2017
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Court Theatre’s The Hard Problem sets up a straw man
But Tom Stoppard’s latest draws blood with a timely portrayal of for-profit scientific research.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 15, 2017
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A drama inspired by the Edward Snowden leaks fails to stick to its own source
Route 66 Theatre's The Source is a strange type of bait and switch
