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- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Dec 13, 2018
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Hellcab's appeal remains just as mystifying now as it was in 1992
Despite the update to a female cabdriver, the script's fundamental flaws remain unaddressed.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Dec 13, 2018
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The Winter Wolf is so delightful, with its infinite capacity for wonder
Otherworld Theatre presents a cozy, nourishing holiday story.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Dec 12, 2018
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A lot goes right in The Play That Goes Wrong
But it's the set that steals the show.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Dec 12, 2018
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The Santaland Diaries hilariously exposes the ugly underbelly of the holiday season
Though maybe the script could stand a few updates.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Dec 11, 2018
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The cleverest part of Bite Size Broadway is the title
It's all downhill after the Fosse-packed opening number.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Dec 7, 2018
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Two years after Greg Allen pulled Too Much Light, the Neo-Futurists continue with The Infinite Wrench
The hourlong series of microplays remains exhilarating and vital.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Dec 7, 2018
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The Book of Merman won't win many converts
It's a great title in search of a better show.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Dec 7, 2018
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Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins gives Jewish kids their own inispid holiday show
As far as mainstage children's theater goes, though, this isn't bad.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Dec 6, 2018
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The latest edition of El Stories explores the drama of the Holiday Train
The Waltzing Mechanics's production returns after a two-year hiatus.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Dec 6, 2018
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Midsommer Flight makes its annual Twelfth Night excursion to the Lincoln Park Conservatory
Shakespeare in the Park isn't just for warm weather.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Dec 6, 2018
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The Revolutionists revels in girl talk, 1789-style
A little liberté, égalité, sororité with Marie Antoinette and copains.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Dec 5, 2018
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Familiar finds the pulsing, beating heart of a Zimbabwean-American family in Minnesota
In Danai Gurira’s new play, characters cling to their culture, even as they assimilate into America.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Dec 5, 2018
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The Woman in Black is a thriller that actually thrills
The two-man cast gets help from the excellent lighting and sound design.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Dec 4, 2018
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More than a century after its Paris premiere, Cendrillon comes to the Lyric
The archly sophisticated production was worth the wait.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Dec 3, 2018
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Drury Lane's Beauty and the Beast revival is showing its age
An attempt both to transcend repetition and please audiences results in a show that won't fully satisfy anyone.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 29, 2018
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SnowGirls puts the X back in Xmas
Hell in a Handbag delivers another naughty holiday parody.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 29, 2018
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HeLa turns the story of Henrietta Lacks into a key to the universe
Playwright J. Nicole Brooks weaves together race, medicine, and basic humanity into a heartfelt drama.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 29, 2018
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Arcadia pulls its audience into various emotional and historical puzzles
The story serves as a love letter to hunger.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 28, 2018
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Q Brothers Christmas Carol serves up an old chestnut with a side of sass
The hip-hop holiday extravaganza returns.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 28, 2018
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Book of Mormon is still crass and juvenile—and completely delightful
The musical's commentary on faith is also somehow appropriate for the holiday season.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 22, 2018
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Eclipse Theatre rescues The Dark at the Top of the Stairs from being just another curio
The production deals with a number of social issues without allowing them to upstage the story.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 22, 2018
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Plainclothes takes a look behind the security cameras at a department store
It doesn't quite ring true, but it's still a successful work comedy.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 22, 2018
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Writers's Twelfth Night doesn't quite achieve greatness, but it's still good fizzy fun
A compelling cast breathes new life into Shakespeare's words.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 21, 2018
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Il Trovatore's plot is grim, but who cares when you know the score?
Giuseppe Verdi's greatest-hits score keeps this warhorse on the stages of major opera companies.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 21, 2018
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Northlight Theatre finds the radicalism in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
Kate Hamill's "collaboration" adjusts the focus and heightens the drama.