While Lookingglass' production is beautifully staged and filled with performances rich in empathy and complexity, In the Garden is more didactic debate than compelling drama. (read more and …
Debuting in 2002, Lifeboat is a touching memoir of two lives brought together in tragedy. This is a winning story for children of all ages"an gripping illustration of friendship and grit to …
This compelling, dexterous one-act by Jessica Dickey has definitely fallen into the right hands with Keira Fromm's driven direction, making this a Strawdog success. (read more...)
Like the best opera, M. Butterfly is in many ways unbelievable, but its absurdity grounded in reality proves a major draw. At times, however, David Henry Hwang's sharp script is undermined b…
With a delightful cast, layered script, and slick staging from Sarah Gitenstein, this much-hyped production exceeds expectations. Anyone that missed this show the first time around should ta…
A perfect production of an American classic, Lost in Yonkers is a seemingly simple play that skillfully weaves together a number of themes " reliance on family during hard times, the challen…
Rich and resonant in that ineffable way that makes the enduring myths both fantastical and human, The White Snake is at its best when it meditates on the universal challenges of romance that…
AstonRep's Wit is a poignant, smart exploration of mortality, smartly done by a strong cast. It's a shame that playwright Margaret Edson forswore writing more after this Purlitzer prize winn…
The collapse of carefully constructed facades aligning with the collapse of the Berlin Wall could have made for excellent conflict. Unfortunately, The Doll's House Project has a foundation o…
Able to illicit a sense of wonder in the mind"if not the heart,"the Redmoon team deserves praise for its audacity alone. To quote the bard, "If this be magic, let it be art." Bellboys, Bears…
The Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia performs this show adapted from the books of Eric Carle with gorgeous puppets colored exactly like the books that keep the kids enthralled throughout. Def…
In Without Trace, Playwright Eric Lockley weaves a masterful hour of mystery and suspense, and Carla Stillwell directs the show with laser timing and a keen control of the emotionally laden …
Fault Lines is the searing retelling of the abduction and subsequent murder of Polly Klaas in 1993. When going, be prepared to ask ponder some hard questions about life in a world getting e…
It's one thing to write a show with a weak will-she-or-won't-she romance storyline, plagueing most Hollywood rom-coms, but The Next Thing feels content on giving us a story with no stakes, n…
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, Willie Gilbert Mu…
If you've managed to miss this show in its previous renditions, now's your chance to see a seminal chapter of American civil rights history leap to life with intensity, ruthlessness and gorg…
Replete with so many textural and expressionistic elements, it's surprising that this may be the first time that this interpretation has been realized in Chicago. Theatre Y has done the city…
Richly adapted and faithfully staged by City Lit artistic director Terry McCabe, these 150 minutes teem with scary revelations about the unreconstructed territory below the Mason-Dixon Line.…
Mercury Theater gets it right - despite its adult content, Avenue Q leaves its audience with warm fuzzies. Thanks to the excellent production team, musicians and cast, this show is not to be…
This well-paced production keeps the audience engaged and uncovers issues on monogamy and divorce that appeared to hit really close to home for several of the couples in the audience opening…
D.L. Coburn's script is smart and subtle; director James Sparling gets the Paul and Patricia Tinsley to evoke their characters' subtext very well. The material just isn't edge-of-your-seat s…
As shaped by director Stephen Brackett, this 105-minute confection proves as bittersweet as hilarious, a name-dropping tour de tabloid that, given Michael Urie's winsomely fey performance, t…
Thanks to wickedly competent director Charles Randolph-Wright, the huge, costume-changing, hard-hoofing cast deliver unstoppable and awesomely accurate musical and dance recreations of showb…
There's a clear drive and passion to this re-imagining of the Genesis tale, but there's not much thought. This is a play in desperate need of subtlety. Perhaps this isn't a ladder Jacob shou…
There are so many priceless moments in this musical remake of Factory's 2010 hit play, and you're guarenteed to leave the theatre basking in big-hair memories from the overwrought 80s. (rea…