Review: Jitney/Court Theatre
RECOMMENDED Playwright August Wilson, who sadly and prematurely passed away in 2005, was a master craftsman of both character and situation. Throughout his Pittsburgh Cycle, ten plays chr…
RECOMMENDED Playwright August Wilson, who sadly and prematurely passed away in 2005, was a master craftsman of both character and situation. Throughout his Pittsburgh Cycle, ten plays chr…
The onslaught of modernized Greek tragedy Chicago has played witness to this year has consisted largely of caked-on, imposing stylistic touches, absent of purpose or urgency. To be sure, the…
RECOMMENDED Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan are rolling in their distinguished graves. And rolling more aggressively than ever before, thanks, in no small part, to the theaters of Chicago. A gu…
RECOMMENDED The abbreviated length of New Zealand playwright Gary Henderson’s “Skin Tight,” being given a Chicago premiere by Cor Theatre, resonates long after the “q…
The character with the most dialogue in Moisés Kaufman's "33 Variations" does not utter a single word"Music. Personified in TimeLine Theatre Company's Chicago premiere production by a stati…
The monologuist is, perhaps, the most naked of all stage performers. Whether his presentation is fictional, non-fictional or a hybrid of the two, the intrusiveness of barebones interaction w…