134 stories by "Mary Wisniewski"
Mark Pracht's adaptation of the 1949 book rewrites masculinity in a Western setting, with a phenomenal performance by lead Michael B. Woods.
This production of Leonard Bernstein’s classic goes big in every way, featuring tremendous singers and actors, fabulous costumes, explosive choreography and a nimble twenty-two-piece orche…
In Shakespeare's comedy, the characters go to the forest and become more fully human. The same thing happens when you see theater in the woods at Spring Green, Wisconsin.
Kokandy Productions revives the "tribal love-rock musical" at Chopin Theatre.
On stage at American Players Theatre, Wisconsin native Thornton Wilder's play is an old-fashioned but well-made farce that was later adapted into the 1964 Broadway hit.
The Eugène Ionesco play, on stage at American Players Theatre, is philosophically bleak, but with a comedic vaudeville feeling.
In this production at Steppenwolf Theatre, three gifted ensemble members transition between genders and ages to tell a family story in a new way.
In “The Targeted,” a new play by Hanna Kime, conspiracy theorists gather at a rustic retreat for a meeting of the “Solidarity and Truth Summit.”
TimeLine Theatre christens its new Uptown building with the Henrik Ibsen work, adapted by Amy Herzog in 2024, about a doctor whose alarming discovery makes him a town pariah.
Playwright and actor Ashley Robinson was performing in Wicked when he saw Brokeback Mountain the film. Now he's written a play adaptation.
The musical version of the classic novel makes its world debut at City Lit Theater, a comedy-adventure-romance mixed with dueling and song.
Elizabeth Auman discusses TimeLine Theatre Company's new home, built for performance, and the journey that led them there.
In Wilson's 1982 play, the playwright imagined a recording session for prolific early-blues recording artist Gertrude "Ma" Rainey and her band in Chicago in 1927.
The West Side native and interdisciplinary artist is taking on a new challenge"acting and singing in his own production that draws from gospel hymns, blues, funk and poetry.
Gary Houston and Shelby Marie Edwards star as two leads who develop an improbable intellectual chemistry in this play by Kurt McGinnis Brown.
David Byrne and Mala Goankar's show explores the science of perception, taking audience members through experiments involving sight, vision and taste, while telling a story of a life from it…
John Reeger's witty new play set during the golden age of television follows a variety-show performer forced to choose between career success and political conscience.
The production moved its planned spring run to Chicago after Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center. It's a tonic in a troubled time.
David Byrne and Mala Gaonkar's immersive theater project combines neuroscience experiments, art and storytelling.
A noisy start and a murky finish are among the choices that obscure "Miss Julie"'s timely relevance for a divided America.
The lead character in this U.S. premiere at Chicago Shakes is not the playwright, but his wife, Agnes. The play is about her union with the Bard and the family they create, as well as Will's…
Conor McPherson's adaptation of August Strindberg's play conveys something true about human relationships"that love and hate are both forms of intimacy, and often intertwined.
"Confederates" has powerful themes and performances that anchor a drama but struggles to unify its dual narratives.
Anna Ouyang Moench's father-daughter drama unfolds through birdwatching and climate anxiety.
This is the North American premiere of David McVicar's production of the opera, inspired by the Pier Paolo Pasolini film "Salò" and set in a grey world reminiscent of fascist Italy under …
