173 stories by "Tristan Bruns"
Adapted from the 1928 satire "The Suicide" by Russian playwright Nikolai Erdman, "Dying For It" tells the story of patriotic proletariats trying to find meaning in an egalitarian, near-secul…
"A Town Called Progress," a new comedy written by Trina Kakacek and directed by Anna C. Bahow, explores a hypothetical scenario in which communism, feminism and utopianism are given an hones…
Jim Mallon spent years at Harrigan's on Halsted drinking copious pints of Guinness while pursuing a dream, to have his life's story documented in some significant way. Mallon's dream is fina…
What do you get when you smash together old Flash Gordon serials with intergalactic alien orgies and hidden emotional trauma? While the premise is simple, the execution is luscious and extra…
The history of medical experimentation on Black Americans is historically one of the most diabolical acts committed. This history of inhuman treatment is explored in "How Blood Go."
The Neo-Futurists transform the theater into a corporate board room, with Windows98-style PowerPoint presentations, frantic focus groups and an overall eerie ambience. Four corporate shills …
Fantasy landscapes are great to build a show around, but sometimes it seems even more fantastical when theater so acutely captures real life"and real emotions.
"Right To Be Forgotten" by Sharyn Rothstein, directed by Sarah Gitenstein, explores the double-edged sword of liberalism. Where do we draw the line between what can and cannot be said?
The story centers around Phillip taking, not finding, for himself a comely wife.
If "Lady Day" was just a concert, you would get your money's worth. But it's more than that.
Toni Stone" by Lydia R. Diamond is about the first professional Black woman baseball player. Nothing about Stone's life is conventional.
In this of-its-time dramedy, three intersectional women of color jump between the past and present day while tossing around quips of political humor amidst serious discussions about race.
The play is about a family from the fictional town of Beacon, Kansas, whose struggles with segregation nearly tear them apart.
The work is a semi-autobiographical account of the life of its creator, Jonathan Larson, set between two major life events, the flop of his 1984 show "Superbia" and the success of his posthu…
Although performed often as a play, the ostensible equality of women to men in modern-day society justifies every recurrence.
This is a tale of Hershel of Ostropol and his battle against supernatural demons. But, it's a fun, energetic show fit for the whole family.
Politicians and prostitutes collide and expect to see references to line dance, praise dance, honky-tonk high-kicking, Broadway classics (in-the-trenches) and tap dancing.
Set in a mundane suburban middle-class home in Texas, the focus is around two sisters, who are, as the title suggests, both bald, but for very different reasons.
What makes this show a roaring good time is the high level of detail put into the characterizations of each Girl, each actor has crafted their Girl to perfection.
Actors John Kani and Winston Ntshona were inspiration for the two prisoners serving decade-long sentences, arrested for performing radical works to interracial audiences during Apartheid.
An original play written in the Elizabethan style…a marriage of Shakespearean tropes with a modern twist, creating something "entirely fresh, and unapologetically non-conforming."
Although separated by two centuries, the great minds of the artist Frida Kahlo and scholar and poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz get a chance to meet.
This reimagining of Noël Coward's classic comedy of manners will have you rooting for scoundrels and cheering on charlatans.