92 stories by "Dmitry Samarov"
Hannah Ii-Epstein's second play in a trilogy about the Hawaiian drug trade dances around the issue of mental illness.
Staged in the coach house of a Chicago Park…
Trap Door's production captures the narrative of no narrative in the Internet age.
Kim McKean directs Caryl Churchill's 2012 assault on the senses disguised as a…
A large cast and full orchestra can't breathe life into the Disney musical at Music Theater Works.
Music Theater Works presents a stage musical adaptation of the…
Black Button Eyes gives Dave Malloy's gleefully haunting song cycle an absorbing production.
Black Button Eyes Productions presents the Chicago premiere of Dave …
Eclipse Theatre Company can't resolve the ancient problems with Christopher Durang's early comedy.
Eclipse Theatre Company presents Christopher Durang's badly da…
Too many hot-button topics pile up in Dandelion Theatre's world premiere.
Dandelion Theatre presents the world premiere of Brynne Frauenhoffer's plaintive, often…
Trap Door's production of Ionesco's absurdist farce works best when no one is talking.
Eugène Ionesco's loud, absurdist farce about an everyman desperately atte…
How and why do you go on making art in the face of indifference?
Theater Oobleck presents the world premiere of Mickle Maher's latest hilarious tragedy. In the b…
With his new self-published book, patron of public art Daniel X. O'Neil displays what he's bought from street artists and swiped from light posts.
"Basically: i…
Walnut Spaceship Studio in the Bridgeport Art Center makes its debut.
Barrie Cole presents a series of overheard phone calls on the CTA that add up to a beautifu…
It's only pain and darkness there.
Like a cross between The Santaland Diaries and Sunset Boulevard, Jonathan Tolins's 2013 one-man comedy sends up the lifestyle …
Emily Schwend's drama is a resonant portrait of life in the shadows of the American dream.
Interrobang Theatre Project presents the midwest premiere of Emily Sch…
An excerpt from Music to My Eyes
The day before Protomartyr played at Schubas, I had a meltdown at the Pitchfork Music Festival.…
He doesn't offer solutions, but he's an empathetic witness to the damage done by violence.
"I'm not afraid of dying. What I'm afraid of is losing my mother, of b…
It starts as grotesque comedy but ends in tragedy.
What happens when people are truly left to their own devices? The first minutes of Anna Jordan's 2015 play abo…
Sitting through this play is like spending an hour and a half with a Greenpeace volunteer on the street.
The Jacaranda Collective's inaugural production is a one…
Maybe you don't have to go to Mars to make your life matter.
Chimera Ensemble presents the Chicago premiere of MJ Kaufman's 2014 drama. Four very different peopl…
