Review: This Is Our Youth/Steppenwolf Theatre Company
RECOMMENDED The living space created for Steppenwolf's intimate upstairs staging of this Kenneth Lonergan play is so cozy and lived-in that while heading toward my seat I was tempted to inst…
RECOMMENDED The living space created for Steppenwolf's intimate upstairs staging of this Kenneth Lonergan play is so cozy and lived-in that while heading toward my seat I was tempted to inst…
I'll take the plunge and just say it: everyone's got a sinking feeling in this play about military wives of submariners. There's an encounter group full of them who meet at a submarine histo…
RECOMMENDED You might think being a rock troll, a vampire, a werewolf, or a hunch-backed "Igor" would disqualify hopeful enlistees from military service. But in the fictional land of Borogra…
You're invited to silently witness a drug tourist spiritual quest. The drug: Ayahuasca. The travelers: local comedy duo Ray BradGary. The duo, comprised of Brad Einstein and Gary Pascal, hal…
RECOMMENDED The players are paired: single mom and blind date, teen daughter and her best boy buddy she wishes were more, and a comfortable middle-class husband and wife hoping to become ado…
RECOMMENDED TVs are ugly and cold and the stage is full of them – the tube type to be specific, positioned where a VJ would want them and rigged as needed. The title treatment on the p…
RECOMMENDED Just an upward glance and a bird on a wing away from Redmoon's vast Pilsen warehouse space there's a building emblazoned with the graffiti "Memories Are Sacred." While Shakespear…
RECOMMENDED The kid's a natural. Of course, the kid's a grown man and what seems to come so naturally is his onstage embodiment of his famed father, two time Academy Award-winner Jack Lemmon…
Just a few blocks from I Sachs Sons shoe repair on Roosevelt, Provision Theater Company coincidentally presents a contemporized take on the biblical tale of Isaac's son Jacob and his struggl…
By Raymond Rehayem American Theater Company's artistic director PJ Paparelli has spearheaded a revival of "Hair" that at times just might make yours stand on end. "If you've never seen 'Hair…
RECOMMENDED There’s an abundance of kitschy romps through pop culture landscapes on today's Chicago stage. Such presentations are often unimaginative and charmless. Â “Attack A…