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- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 14, 2019
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The final 15 minutes of Dutch Masters are devastating
But Greg Keller’s script takes way too long to get there.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 14, 2019
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Four aspiring interplanetary colonizers learn How to Live on Earth
Maybe you don't have to go to Mars to make your life matter.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 14, 2019
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Mahalia Jackson: Moving Thru the Light sticks to the Black Ensemble Theatre formula
The music's fabulous, but the story's thin.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 14, 2019
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In the Blood introduces a modern Hester Prynne
She's got a lot more to handle than a scarlet letter.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 14, 2019
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Remember the Alamo has more quirks than purpose
Where true confessions meet Texas history and Phil Collins trivia
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 13, 2019
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Little Shop of Horrors has not grown gracefully into the new millennium
Still, Mercury Theater's production hits all the right notes.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 13, 2019
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Two Pints pays tribute to human resilience and the power of Guinness
This Abbey Theatre import is unexpectedly wonderful.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 8, 2019
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We Are Proud to Present a Presentation . . . grapples with giving voice to a forgotten people
A troupe of actors struggles to tell the story of the near-forgotten Herero people.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 8, 2019
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Like the absinthe that inspired it, The Ruse of Medusa is an acquired taste
There is nothing like it onstage anywhere else in Chicago.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 7, 2019
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Doubt: A Parable explores the Catholic Church at a crisis point
The 2004 Pulitzer-winner is relevant once again.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 7, 2019
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I Wanna Fucking Tear You Apart feels like a sitcom about extended adolescence
Go Team FatGay!
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 7, 2019
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A toast to a chosen family with a shot of Southern Comfort
The bluegrass musical centers trans love and queer joy.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 1, 2019
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There’s humor and hope in May the Road Rise Up—along with plenty of whiskey
Shannon O'Neill's drama is a true Irish blessing.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 28, 2019
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Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde is incandescent theater
Jamie Bragg and Heather Smith embody the love that dares to speak its name.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 28, 2019
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The Man Who Was Thursday's visual splendors compensate for its extreme verbosity
When you get tired of listening to spies, there's a beautiful set and lighting.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 28, 2019
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Yes this play's called Mike Pence Sex Dream, and it's great
Dan Giles’s satire is Orwell by way of David Lynch, and it’s electrifying.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 28, 2019
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Tango demonstrates that ideas alone can’t change society
Even if you're on the five-year plan.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 28, 2019
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Regressive and toothless, The Vagina Melodies: Here We Go Again is Feminism 101 for the 80s
Its pep and cheer is matched by its obliviousness.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 27, 2019
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Act(s) of God provides no justification for its existence
Actor Kareem Bandealy’s playwriting debut overreaches.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 27, 2019
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An Inspector Calls has all the nuance of a thermonuclear blast
Don't worry, you won't have any trouble following this one.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 27, 2019
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Twilight Bowl takes a close look at overlooked lives
Five women in small-town Wisconsin search for their places in the world.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 22, 2019
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The Artistic Home revival of Requiem for a Heavyweight is a knockout
Mark Pracht turns in a remarkable performance, cauliflower ear and all.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 21, 2019
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The Abuelas builds up to a few moments of poignancy but not much else
The companion to The Madres tries to jam too much drama into a slipshod theatrical framework.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 21, 2019
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Raven’s How I Learned to Drive lacks horsepower
Paula Vogel's play is a stunner, but this production hits a few wrong notes.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 21, 2019
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The Soccer Player in the Closet attempts to conjure the existential despair of the handset and the Pringles tube
Unfortunately, Nothing Without a Company can't make this interesting theater.