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Monday “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window” at Goodman Theatre. The political and the personal collide in Lorraine Hansberry’s prescient mid-century drama.Â�…
This election cycle is showing how irretrievably broken the two-party system is. There are candidates on both sides that no one is particularly enthused about, yet we are bullied by propagan…
RECOMMENDED During his lifetime, Robert Joffrey made his company the United States repository for the ballets of English choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton, but one work was missing from the…
The wanderer's dream, a haven in the moment of need, dims any disbelief the moment you walk into the 100 Miles Inn of The New Colony's "Even Longer and Farther Away." Seated at tables with t…
While watching "Taste” you won't know whether to laugh or cringe. In other dramatic circumstances this might be considered a virtue. However in Red Theater's production, Benjamin Brand…
By Michael Workman Your set design for this production of The Seldoms’ “RockCitizen” is part sculptural installation, part wearable art and part stage setting. How did you …
RECOMMENDED What do you get when you take the dramatic sensibilities of Writers Theatre and mix it up with the comedic instincts of The Second City? The answer is a slick, funny and refreshi…
RECOMMENDED Jessica Anne is a tactful truth-teller, performance artist and oathbreaker; Mike Hamilton is the best actor she knows. "Mike Mother" is ninety minutes of being locked in a roo…
RECOMMENDED At first glance, the 1930s showbiz comedy "Once in a Lifetime" may seem like an odd choice for Strawdog Theatre Company's final mainstage production in their home on Broadway. Fo…
Last Friday night I went to see Shaw's 1914 towering tragic-comic masterpiece presented in a "black box" theater on the fourth floor of a warehouse. Experience told me that “Pygmali…
RECOMMENDED There are some musicals that come with the burden of great expectation. "Dreamgirls," which made its Broadway debut in 1981, is one such example. The heart-stopping performance o…
RECOMMENDED Lyric Opera of Chicago has found a formula that comes closer to a successful collaboration between the resources of a major opera company and the magic of musical theatre. This &…
Monday “Once in a Lifetime” at Strawdog Theatre Company. Kaufman and Hart’s classic comedy marks Strawdog’s final show at their Broadway home before their mo…
RECOMMENDED Carrie Hanson picks up after last year’s “Power Goes”"a brilliant evaluation of personal and political power through the lens of the Lyndon B. Johnson administr…
RECOMMENDED Nobody wants the responsibility of telling kids about sex. That's evidenced in the squeamish way the subject is handled in mainstream media as well as the biologically-centered s…
In celebration of their twentieth anniversary, Collaboraction mounts a production as grand in scale as humanly possible. Spanning the birth of the universe to post-apocalyptic America, "Conn…
1 Mary Page Marlowe (Steppenwolf Theatre Company) An extraordinary look at an ordinary life 2 RockCitizen (The Seldoms) Social movements, athletic dancing and rock ‘n’ roll 3 Oth…
By Loy Webb Actor and comic Melissa DuPrey has a passion for arts, activism and community building that is as large and deep as the Pacific Ocean. Her story is one of terror and triumph. Fro…
RECOMMENDED Everybody talks about the passing of the American Dream but what about the persistence of the American Nightmare? The latter unfolds in black and white, a violent and never-endin…
The Coincidentals’ performance series returns with a showcase of new works by emerging dance and movement artists. Artists are given rehearsal space to collaborate, develop work and pr…
"A Splintered Soul" is among the more cynically calculating plays I’ve seen. Playwright Alan Lester Brooks starts with a crime story straight out of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine the…
RECOMMENDED Have you ever had a dream? A fantasy? A certain frisson of something fabulous to come? A big vision, a prophecy of something monumental, transcendent, opulent? Beyond that, do wh…
RECOMMENDED The musical version of Woody Allen and Douglas McGrath's 1994 film of the same name has lots of good things going for it. This first national tour has an incredibly talented c…
RECOMMENDED James Goldman's 1966 period piece with contemporary colloquialisms has played the world over, buoyed by the success of the 1968 film starring Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole.…
RECOMMENDED Some Chicago audiences might remember Kyle Abraham from the Harris Theater last year in the duet he created for himself and Wendy Whelan as part of her “Restless Creature&#…
