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- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 17, 2019
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The second coming of True West
Jon Michael Hill and Namir Smallwood breathe fire into Steppenwolf’s revival.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 17, 2019
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Bury Me bogs down in issues
Too many hot-button topics pile up in Dandelion Theatre's world premiere.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 17, 2019
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There’s nothing bad about The Drag Seed
David Cerda’s latest classic makeover for Hell in a Handbag is a winner for summer camp.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 17, 2019
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Les Misérables storms the barricades again.
Thirty-four years later, the blockbuster musical still packs a potent political message with the melodrama.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 17, 2019
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The Recommendation balances hilarious excess and grim realism
Windy City Playhouse’s latest immersive ambulatory production offers a penetrating analysis of class privilege.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 17, 2019
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Strange Heart Beating muddies the waters
Cloudgate Theatre’s production is too precious and preposterous.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 17, 2019
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Sunset Baby shows the personal price for political strife
A daughter struggles to reconnect with her estranged activist father in Dominique Morisseau's drama.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 17, 2019
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20/20 celebrates being young, gifted, and queer
About Face Youth Theatre turns 20 with this contemporary look at LGBTQ history.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 17, 2019
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Wolf Play leads the pack
An adoptee seeks comfort and safety in lupine identity in Hansol Jung's latest.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 10, 2019
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The Music Man offers a musical conundrum at the Goodman
Mary Zimmerman’s production sings, though the gender politics creak.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 10, 2019
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Darling Grenadine pours out a familiar showbiz story with a sweet score
Marriott’s new musical hits standard narrative notes, but the songs soar
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 10, 2019
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Get up and Go-Go to Kokandy’s Head Over Heels
A binary-busting love story weds a 16th-century romance and the music of the Go-Go’s.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 10, 2019
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Redtwist’s King Lear creates a tempest-torn world in an intimate setting
Steve Scott's bare-bones production is storefront Shakespeare at its best.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 3, 2019
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The frothy fantasy Flower of Hawaii blooms again
Folks Operetta revives a lost hit from pre-World War II Berlin.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 3, 2019
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For a good time, come all over the dating satire Grindr the Opera
Pride Films and Plays' new musical gleefully skewers the modern gay-dating scene.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 26, 2019
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch, up close and personal at Theo Ubique
In the title role, Will Lidke is a nova of charisma.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 26, 2019
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Ada and the Engine is more mechanical tool than finely calibrated dramatic device
The gears keep spinning, but we never get anywhere.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 26, 2019
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Urban Theater Company re-creates the house music scene from Back in the Day
But the dance sequences undermine the attempts to address serious issues.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 26, 2019
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Something Clean looks at the aftermath of a rape trial from an unexpected angle
Selina Fillinger's drama gets in some good shots in at quick-fix concepts of closure, healing, and even justice.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 19, 2019
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The Ballad of Lefty & Crabbe tells a sad tale of the end of vaudeville
A song-and-dance man learns to smile through his pain.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 19, 2019
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The Impostors’ first season ends with the thoroughly enjoyable anthology Footholds
The evening includes five short plays written by Chicagoans.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 19, 2019
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If I Forget is a powerful portrait of a family trying to survive in a changing world
An intellectual debate escalates into the unwinding of tightly-coiled fears.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 19, 2019
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The new farce Prophet$ looks back on the good old days of corrupt televangelists
It's firmly rooted in the 80s, in more ways than one.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 19, 2019
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Maybe a Big Mouth Billy Bass would liven up The River
But all we've got is a murky early effort from Tony winner Jez Butterworth.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 19, 2019
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The bracingly honest stand-up Jimmy Carrane returns with World's Greatest Dad(?)
He's become a master at the kind of storytelling he pioneered 28 years ago in I'm 27, I Still Live at Home, and I Sell Office Supplies.
