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This world-premiere trifle about extraterrestrials applying for an intergalactic "green card" manages to wear out its welcome and then exasperate a patient crowd.
If you're a fan of Hwang's work, you will enjoy Halcyon's production because of the script. But a general theatergoing audience with expectations for a polished play may leave disappointed.
Director Kathryn Walsh highlights nuance along with sophisticated characterizations in her layered, sportive production of "As You Like It"
In Jessica Puller's new play, the Trojan War is still being played out, with anachronistic embellishments because the principals have persisted for three millennia.
It's Cubs vs. White Sox in this tribute to Chicago's colorful sports scene. Slightly recommended.
This is an avant garde homage and innovation at its best. Brilliant. Also brilliant are the costumes, scenery, sound and tech effects.
Brown Line is at its best when it goes beyond anecdotes about loonies and uses common experiences about the el to expose deeper truths about urban life.
The highlight of the Second City producion is brilliant for reasons having not so much to do with humor, but truthful acting, in what is essentially a beautiful and heartbreaking short play.…
The segments of the 15th-Annual Fillet of Solo Theatre Festival are more poignant than stand-up, more intimate than a monologue, and more hopeful than a rant.
If Lucille Ball were still alive, she'd turn 100 this week. In honor of this, here's a few of her most memorable quotes
In the scorching days of August, Forever Plaid is a light and breezy choice.
What "1001" incontestably offers, thanks to director Seth Bockley's pile-driving and spell-binding remount, is richly focused performances as mercurial and captivating as the script's splend…
Steep Theatre's production of "Pornography" is an interesting bit of theatre that delivers several very powerful scenesall the more relevant in light of recent senseless violent acts.
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Marred by basic execution hurdles and a lack of apparent vision, Director Brian Conley's Macbeth aims for perfunctory and falls short at mundane. Not recommended.
Kudos to the powerhouse behind this perpetual motion: Pile-driving this too-hot-to-handle score, the ensemble honors the musical's many moods, exploding into hormonal turf dances and an eleg…
One thing is certain for the future of this brazen company: when they fail, they will fail big; and when they succeed, as with The Misunderstanding, they will succeed profoundly.
"Games You Can Play with your Pussy", and other literary gems...
The actors in this production do a journeyman's job of making satire look easy. Recommended.
"University" does not disappoint. Director Henri Dugas IV has assembled an extraordinarily talented and dedicated crew, some of whom are not just talented improvisers but also talented actor…
Naomi Wallace's The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek is sheer atmosphere. It makes no arguments--it just uses stark poetry and burning imagery to present an action portrait of dead-end despair.
It may have taken nearly 100 years, but "The Rose of Stambul" has finally correctly sprouted in America, courtesy of Chicago Folks Operetta.
Leave it to a visiting Australian performance troupe to remind Chicago how dimensional our city is. Along the river, through an alley, down hotel stairs, up on a roof " Chicago is fascinat…
A hodgepodge of clowning, absurdism, literary allusion and repetition, which comes together to create a murky, obtuse mess. Not recommended.
As MTV.com intuitively remarked, Amy Winehouse was not so much troubled as she was haunted.
