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Arts & Culture, Ghost Light Dec 15, 2020
Ghost Gun confronts class and race

The Goodman joins the national #Enough: Plays to End Gun Violence initiative; plus a new documentary on the August Wilson Monologue Competition and an award for a dance documentarian
- By Kerry Reid
- Tags: Ghost Light, Ghost Gun, Goodman Theatre, #Enough Plays to End Gun Violence, Michael Cotey, David Henry Hwang, Lauren Gunderson, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Robert Schenkkan, Karen Zacarías, Olivia Ridley, Ken-Matt Martin, Jayson Lee, Yee Eun Nam, Twi McCallum, August Wilson, Scott Silbe

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 26, 2019
Exit, Pursued by a Bear lacks teeth

Lauren Gunderson's 2012 play trades in tropes, but Joy Productions' cast is strong.
- By Dmitry Samarov
- Tags: Theater Review, Exit Pursued by a Bear, Joy Productions, Chopin Theatre, Lauren Gunderson, Sarah Hensley, Aaron Wertheim, Dani Mohrbach, Amy Maniscalco, Alex Rocha

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 19, 2019
The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley cashes in on Jane Austen

Sugarplums, sparkle, and a stellar cast can't quite overcome a treacly script.
- By Catey Sullivan
- Tags: Theater Review, The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley, Northlight Theatre, Jessica Thebus, Margot Melcon, Lauren Gunderson, Jennifer Latimore, Will Mobley, Penny Slusher, Netta Walker, Luigi Sottile

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 26, 2019
Ada and the Engine is more mechanical tool than finely calibrated dramatic device

The gears keep spinning, but we never get anywhere.
- By Justin Hayford
- Tags: Theater Review, Ada and the Engine, The Artistic Home, Ada Byron Lovelace, Charles Babbage, Lauren Gunderson, Brookelyn Hébert, John Mossman, Monica Payne, computer, analytical engine

Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 2, 2019
Recommended
The power of Walt Whitman brings two high school students together in I & You

They sound their barbaric yawp through the living room.
- By Jack Helbig
- Tags: Theater Review, I & You, Open Door Theater, Oak Park Festival Theatre, Lauren Gunderson, Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, Bryan Wakefield, Erica Bittner, Matty Robinson, high school, teenagers, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 6, 2018
The Revolutionists undermines its own powerful message with too much cutesiness

But Olympe de Gouges and the other women of the French Revolution are worth knowing.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, The Revolutionists, Organic Theater Company, French Revolution, Lauren Gunderson, Bryan Wakefield, Reign of Terror

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Nov 22, 2017
Escape to Margaritaville, 'Tis the Seasonal Depression, and nine more new stage shows

A musical for Parrotheads and a comedy revue from GayCo are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, The Book of Will, Lauren Gunderson, Shakespeare, The King's Men, the Bard, Jessica Thebus, Northlight Theatre, Bluebird Arts, Clever Little Lies, Joe DiPietro, Luda Lopatina Solomon, Jimmy Buffett, Escape to Margaritaville, jukebox musical, Cheeseburger in Paradise, Christopher Ashley, Paul Alexander Nolan, Alison Duff, Parrotheads, Walt Spangler, Lisa Howard, Eric Petersen, Paul Tazewell, I Saw My Neighbor on the Train and I Didn't Even Smile, Redtwist Theatre, Suzanne Heathcote, Adam Bitterman, Jacqueline Grandt, Kathleen Ruhl, Erin Murphy, Emma Maltby, Fear the Evil Dead, Lizzie, Lizzie Borden, Firebrand Theatre, Elizabeth Bussert, feminist musical theater, Invictus Theatre, Othello: The Moor of Venice, Callie Johnson, Charles Askenaizer, The Pearl Fishers, Lyric Opera, George Bizet, Marina Rebeka, Matthew Polenzani, Mariusz Kwiecien, Andrew Davis, Zandra Rhodes, Scrooge and the Ghostly Spirits, Citadel Theatre Company, Douglas Post, Scott Phelps, Frank Farrell, Tick, Tick . . . Boom, Jonathan Larson, Rent, Donald Kolakowski, Nic Eastlund, Molly LeCaptain, Cuckoo's Theater Project, Prop Thtr, 'Tis the Seasonal Depression, GayCo Productions, Jeff Bouthiette, Christopher Thies Lotito, Katie Cutler, Evan M. Duggan, Wild Boar, Candace Chong, Silk Road Rising, Joanna C. Lee, Ken Smith, China Miéville, Anthony Churchill, China Miéville, Helen Young

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Apr 5, 2017
Born Yesterday, The Great and Terrible Wizard of Oz, and seven more new theater and comedy reviews

A classic from Remy Bumppo and a revival from the House Theatre of Chicago are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Garson Kanin, Born Yesterday, Eliza Stoughton, Greg Matthew Anderson, Sean M. Sullivan, David Darlow, Fatelessness, Melissa Lorraine, Imre Kertész, Theatre Y, Benjamin Holliday Wardell, Andràs Visky, Adam Boncz, Feminism and Other Things, Drinking and Writing Theater, Amelia Bethel, Lady Grace Murphy, the House Theatre of Chicago, The Great and Terrible Wizard of Oz, Phillip Kapperich, AnJi White, Joe Steakley, L. Frank Baum, Christine Mayland Perkins, Tellin' Tales Theatre, Tekki Lomnicki, Steve Glickman, Judi Lee Goshen, Silent Sky, Lauren Gunderson, First Folio Theatre, Henrietta Leavitt, Melanie Keller, Cassandra Bissell, Christopher Kriz, Adventure Stage Chicago, Six Stories Tall, Marco Ramirez, Wolfgang Stein, the Annoyance, Anneliese Toft, Judi Lee Goshen, Tom Arvetis

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Ghost Gun confronts class and race

The Goodman joins the national #Enough: Plays to End Gun Violence initiative; plus a new documentary on the August Wilson Monologue Competition and an award for a dance documentarian

Exit, Pursued by a Bear lacks teeth

Lauren Gunderson's 2012 play trades in tropes, but Joy Productions' cast is strong.

The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley cashes in on Jane Austen

Sugarplums, sparkle, and a stellar cast can't quite overcome a treacly script.

Ada and the Engine is more mechanical tool than finely calibrated dramatic device

The gears keep spinning, but we never get anywhere.

Recommended
The power of Walt Whitman brings two high school students together in I & You

They sound their barbaric yawp through the living room.

The Revolutionists undermines its own powerful message with too much cutesiness

But Olympe de Gouges and the other women of the French Revolution are worth knowing.

Escape to Margaritaville, 'Tis the Seasonal Depression, and nine more new stage shows

A musical for Parrotheads and a comedy revue from GayCo are among this week's best bets.

Born Yesterday, The Great and Terrible Wizard of Oz, and seven more new theater and comedy reviews

A classic from Remy Bumppo and a revival from the House Theatre of Chicago are among this week's best bets.

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The Goodman joins the national #Enough: Plays to End Gun Violence initiative; plus a new documentary on the August Wilson Monologue Competition and an award for a dance documentarian

Lauren Gunderson's 2012 play trades in tropes, but Joy Productions' cast is strong.

Sugarplums, sparkle, and a stellar cast can't quite overcome a treacly script.

The gears keep spinning, but we never get anywhere.

They sound their barbaric yawp through the living room.

But Olympe de Gouges and the other women of the French Revolution are worth knowing.

A musical for Parrotheads and a comedy revue from GayCo are among this week's best bets.

A classic from Remy Bumppo and a revival from the House Theatre of Chicago are among this week's best bets.

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