2,003 stories by "Scotty Zacher"
Minsk, 2011: A Reply to Kathy Acker Written by Natalia Kaliada and Nicolai Khalezin D…
In the end, David Hare's play feels like a carefully scripted rhetoric competition. The performances may be well wrought, but Skylight has a very small window of actual drama. (read more...)
A range of entirely unsympathetic characters pay little mind to him anyway in a production that, like its central character, has a lofty idea but ditches the hope and goes right for audacity…
While disillusionment by realized dreams, or marriages straining to survive with stress are not novel themes, what's refreshing about Lucinda Coxon's script is that she doesn't wrap it up wi…
Although there's nothing majorly wrong with this production, with so little merit to the script, I can't help but wonder why Metropolis didn't turn its talents to a more worthy project. (rea…
Definitely worth heading out to Aurora for! Director Rachel Rockwell's choreography excels throughout, but "Seventy Six Trombones" especially delights. Music Director Michael Mahler and his …
I highly recommend that this play be seen by students to get the real deal of slavery and perhaps some new revelations on America's most shameful past. This is not revisionist history. The W…
Directed by Marc Robin and conceived by Robin and Aaron Thielen, Now and Forever: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber is a stunner of a show packed with bravura vocals, thrilling choreography a…
Luther wants to show a target audience of do-gooders what happens when do-gooding goes too far. As a satire, it fails. As a display of gratuitous puppetry, unnecessary choreography and flat-…
TimeLine Theatre Company's engrossing drama and five supple players deliver impressionistic variations on the myriad facets of recollections and recovery. (read more...)
It's fascinating to watch a family fall, and Other Desert Cities dishes dirt with aplomb. The Wyeth family are successful, wealthy and very real in their neuroses. I caught that. I loved it…
If you've never seen La Bohème, you should see this production. It'll make you an opera lover (and maybe a better lover). If you've seen it before, you should revisit this La Bohème. It…
The single biggest drawback to being a reviewer is that you have a professional obligation to see a show through, even when you desperately want to walk out. Such was my fate with Stadium De…
Playfully appropriate choreography by director Kevin Bellie give another layer of life to these numbers, which sometimes suffer from the subdued design. No set changes or elaborate costumes …
"Rain" is not always easy to follow, and makes demands of its audience, but it also rewards us well for our patience. Its intellectual challenge and refusal to be predictable are what's most…
Noted Chicago playwright Rebecca Gilman's spot-on script uses clever but realistic dialogue to the fullest, exploring not only the crime of stalking itself but the fraught issues it raises: …
Director John Nasca does an exemplary job in bringing to stage this teenage-boys-come-to-grips-with-their-orientation-and-fall-in-love story. Let's just hope that this play will remain a cla…
Ultimately, this production of Waiting for Godot succeeds in staying true to Beckett's honest but dark vision but also makes it accessible. If you feel a need to ponder the absurdity of our…
Oracle Theatre is one of my favorite theatres in town. I usually love all their artistic choices. I didn't love this. I didn't even like it. Accidental Death of an Anarchist is no acciden…
There is definitely precious *aha* and *awwww* moments in this heartfels play. I'm completely ready to continue my joyful weeping for the next few chapters of Bud's life. (read more...)
It's extremely difficult to describe a show where four performers transform into approximately two dozen different beings throughout the night. A yellow, worm-like creature slinks across the…
In this two-actor play, produced in Writers' intimate back-of-the-bookstore theater, directed by Kimberly Senior, Kate Fry and Mark L. Montgomery create a tension-filled, paranoia-tinged Col…
With this Shakespeare adaption, one feels less ambivalence toward Lady Macbeth. Where once I interpreted her as a pawn of the patriarchy, she is given more power of choice in Lady M., and it…
At first glance, it seems that Rivendell, with a mission dedicated to the work of female theatrical artists, has chosen an antithetical play which features twice as many male characters as f…
Put this one on your "don't miss list." Yes, it's worth schlepping out to Glenview from the city for. Go early to mingle in Oil Lamp's comfortable lobby-bar area, where Executive and Artisti…
