WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND LAYS AHEAD If you think Carl Sagan's Cosmos is mind-blowing, or the way Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. could put history into context is dumbfounding, or Thomas Friedman's Th…
THIS TIME, IT'S A PLAGUE THAT CAUSED THE RAT Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical. Notice in the title that there is no mention of Disney. You know, the folks behind the terrific Pixar 2007 film …
17th ANNUAL UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL WITH FREE VIRTUAL PERFORMANCES JANUARY 6-17, 2021 AND PRE-FESTIVAL PROGRAMMING BEGINNING DECEMBER 21 This popular and highly-anticipated festival of T…
Signature Theatre Announces Resident Playwrights' Productions for 2021"2022 Season Signature Theatre's 2021"22 Season looks amazing, and would water any theatregoer's mouth, especially after…
A WORLD APART FROM TYPICAL VIRTUAL FARE Like a breath of fresh air, Jason Robert Brown's Songs for a New World far exceeded my expectations of both virtual theater and Brown's uneven s…
I HOPE THE FUTURE IS MORE EXCITING THAN THIS The Geffen Playhouse is forging ahead as Geffen Stayhouse, offering another magic show disguised as theater. Following the phenomenal success of …
BRINGING BACK BYRNE Talking Heads superstar David Byrne brings his acclaimed rock spectacle American Utopia back to Broadway beginning Friday, September 17, 2021, and tickets are now on s…
WHAT? THE DICKENS! Nothing can keep a good Carol down. Beginning December 18, 2020, Summoners Ensemble Theatre's A Christmas Carol at the Merchant's house will indeed return for its 8th seas…
HOLY CLOSET! Whereas many theater companies are becoming experimenters with video during the COVID-19 shutdown, Theater in Quarantine has been actually transforming theater into a small s…
A JEWEL OF A PLAY Forgive me dear reader for the terse review, but I discovered something yesterday that turned out to be the holiday present you never expected but later realized it was som…
FORGET YOUR TROUBLES WITH THE TROUBIES The holiday season simply wouldn't be the same without the Troubies so they're bringing you an experience second only to being tightly packed in a thea…
STORAGE RUN = VIRTUAL FUN Pee-Wee's Playhouse meets Choose Your Own Adventure meets classic holiday fare in this new, interactive holiday experience from Rogue Artists Ensemble, one of the c…
FOUNTAIN THEATRE'S VIRTUAL END-OF-YEAR PARTY: PLAYREADING ABOUT BETTE DAVIS; HOLIDAY CHEER; AND GAMES Settle in with your favorite beverage on Saturday, Dec. 19Â at 5pm PT / 8pm ET when th…
LOOK FORWARD IN ANGER Wait a minute! Hold on! A one-man play by an angry gay man to be performed by an angry gay man in a show written by an angry gay man? I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you. …
SINGING THE PRAISES OF A CAROL At this time of year, productions about dear old Scrooge are ablaze as usual, even in streaming mode. One-man shows, radio plays, and reruns on film. What's yo…
THIS STREETCAR ROLLS AND HUMS WITH AUTHENTICITY Since struggle for power among the classes is one of the main themes in Tennessee Williams' still-shocking A Streetcar Named Desire, it makes …
TWAS THE MAC BEFORE CHRISTMAS Taylor Mac is back this holiday season with a full serving of virtual vaudeville. Celebrating the holiday season in all of its dysfunction, Taylor Mac's HOLIDAY…
DAI 2.0 Originally scheduled to premiere Off-Broadway at the 14th Street Y in NYC, Iris Bahr's funny and moving new solo work, DAI 2.0, is the sequel to her award winning solo show, DAI (eno…
BREATHE. With the recent political, racial, and global unrest occurring throughout 2020, the premiere of recent political, racial, and global unrest occurring throughout 2020, the premiere o…
THE BIG SLEEP No crime is as duplicitous as The Geffen's latest zoom-as-theater project Citizen Detective. This is the point that I say "spoiler alert" but a) nothing I do can spoil this int…
EXTRA! EXTRA! SANTA CAUGHT ON TAPE WITH RAG DOLL! If your little ones are aching for some color and Christmas and you're looking for a critical and commercial success from Chicago to enterta…
A FEAST FOR THE IMAGINATION I have seen three shows from the Chicago-based performance collective Manual Cinema, and the theatricality is truly awesome. You wouldn't expect this from a simpl…
EXTRA! EXTRA! MUSICAL COMEDY WHORE CAUGHT ON FILM! David Pevsner's solo musical show Musical Comedy Whore! is about sex, love … and musicals. Whether acting in stage hits When Pigs Fly …
RIMSKY TO THE RESCUE As COVID-19 restrictions continue to evolve, Chicago Opera Theater is pivoting its November show digitally in order to honor commitments to artists while protecting the …
CALLING ALL HUMAN TRASHCANS!! (THAT'S YOU, BY THE WAY) Chicago's amazing avant-garde company Trap Door Theatre is presenting a series of eight episodes adapted from Matei ViÅŸniec's Decomp…