275 stories by "Nina Metz"
This two-person sketch show at the Annoyance starring Sarah Dell'Amico and Rashida "Sheedz" Olayiwola needs work " a lot of work " but it has one thing going for it that suggests real pot…
How interested are you in cockfighting? The answer will determine how interested you may be in this drama from Eric Dufault about a sad-sack McDonald's cashier who sees hoped-for domination …
Before launching into a bit of obligatory chat about her new CBS sitcom "Angel From Hell" on Monday night's broadcast of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," Jane Lynch and Colbert " who…
A spiked Slurpee of false eyelashes, shoulder pads and size 11 pumps, "Christmas Dearest" takes a certain Charles Dickens holiday classic firmly by the shoulders, slaps it across the face, p…
A young woman named Lucy is at the center of this new play from ICU Ensemble, which strives to give theatrical form to Lucy's inner life without much success.When she is with her circle of p…
A young woman named Lucy is at the center of this new play from ICU Ensemble, which strives to give theatrical form to Lucy's inner life without much success.When she is with her circle of p…
A spiked Slurpee of false eyelashes, shoulder pads and size 11 pumps, "Christmas Dearest" takes a certain Charles Dickens holiday classic firmly by the shoulders, slaps it across the face, s…
Tavi Gevinson and Michael Cera, who co-starred in a 2014 Steppenwolf production of "This Is Our Youth" that was later mounted on Broadway, have been cast in a new ensemble drama about rel…
Tavi Gevinson and Michael Cera, who co-starred in a 2014 Steppenwolf production of "This Is Our Youth" that was later mounted on Broadway, have been cast in a new ensemble drama about rel…
A cavalcade of song-and-dance brunettes in groovy bell-bottom jumpsuits star in a 1974 industrial musical for the liquor company Hiram Walker. "How to make it happen for your greatest year,"…
The Annoyance Theatre moved into its new venue about a year-and-a-half ago, a terrific second-floor space on Belmont with a large barroom lined with a bank of windows offering views of the b…
The Annoyance Theatre moved into its new venue about a year-and-a-half ago, a terrific second-floor space on Belmont with a large barroom lined with a bank of windows offering views of the b…
The Broadway opening of "China Doll," David Mamet's newest play starring Al Pacino, has been moved back to December, it was announced on Monday, a delay that might be at least partly due to�…
The Broadway opening of "China Doll," David Mamet's newest play starring Al Pacino, has been moved back to December, it was announced on Monday, a delay that might be at least partly due to�…
One of the deep pleasures offered by Chicago's sketch and improv scene is the opportunity to see performers early in their careers, pre-fame, before "Saturday Night Live" and Hollywood and l…
Spoofing a 1930s vaudeville show and featuring performers staring into the abyss of vaudeville's future (in other words, no future at all), this might be one of the more deranged homages to …
I'm predisposed to liking any show that exposes its dark comedic instincts right off the bat, but break up those moments with fully committed, quasi-cheesy dance moves that might as well hav…
I'm predisposed to liking any show that exposes its dark comedic instincts right off the bat, but break up those moments with fully committed, quasi-cheesy dance moves that might as well hav…
Spoofing a 1930s vaudeville show and featuring performers staring into the abyss of vaudeville's future (in other words, no future at all), this might be one of the more deranged homages to …
Conceptually, "The Story of a Story (The Untold Story)" has a lot in common with "[title of show]," which had a terrifically sharp production in Chicago over the summer. Both are extremely m…
Conceptually, "The Story of a Story (The Untold Story)" has a lot in common with "[title of show]," which had a terrifically sharp production in Chicago over the summer. Both are extremel…
There's a Grabowski-like sensibility that improvisers Ryan Archibald and Craig Uhlir bring to the stage, which isn't as common as you might think from such a resolutely Chicago art form. The…
This 2005 drama from Peter Morris could just as easily be called "Anatomy of a Monster" or "The Banality of Evil," unspooling as if it were an extended therapy session or late-night confessi…
This 2005 drama from Peter Morris could just as easily be called "Anatomy of a Monster" or "The Banality of Evil," unspooling as if it were an extended therapy session or late-night confessi…
Mordant family dysfunction fuels this 2011 work from Nicky Silver, featuring a patriarch dying of cancer, a matriarch more interested in redecorating the living room than her spouse's termin…
