Two weeks ago I ducked into a local movie theatre to attend a new, big-budgeted film about an art heist. Theft, highly-coveted works of art, talented actors; what could possibly go wrong? I …
How do we determine our place in the world? How do we give our lives meaning? And how do we do both of these things while dealing with loss and change? These are just a few of the questions …
BoHo Theatre will present the musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, by John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Terrence McNally, based on the novel by Manuel Puig, as the final production in its …
Following its, critically acclaimed, sold-out run at Angel Island this winter, Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co. is pleased to transfer its Jeff Recommended production of Tennessee Williams' cl…
A FAMILY HAUNTED BY ITSELF Even among dysfunctional clans " an apparently exhaustible topic for today's theater " Jason Grote's self-haunted family in Maria/Stuart gets laurels for looniness…
A review of "Next Fall" at ArtsWest, a production full of moving moments, writes critic John Hartl. Through April 6, 2013.
Kokandy Productions proudly announces its first two-show season featuring “Danny and the Deep Blue Sea”, April 12 – 28 at the Athenaeum Theatre, 2636 N. Southport Ave. a…
Pianist Jeremy Denk wields a large artillery of dynamics and colors and it served him well in this performance.
THEATER REVIEW: "Completeness:" at Theater Wit ★★★ THEATER REVIEW: "Completeness:" at Theater Wit ★★★ ... Most heroes do not win their loves by teasing t…
STORIES IN A SPIN CYCLE If ever the cliché "the plot thickens" justifies itself, it's in this relentlessly inventive 1996 work by Australian playwright Andrew Bovell; anacondas after their …
Filed under: PLUGS, SOCIAL EVENTS Tagged: Dandy Wellington, Flute, Kita St. Cyr, Wit's End
Theater Wit's Midwest debut of Itamar Moses' newest work is a a true thinking nerd's romantic comedy, fearless in both its willingness to be unapologetically high-minded and an unblinking lo…
RECOMMENDED As an instructor in DePaul's College of Computing and Digital Media, I chafe when I see "computer geeks" dramatized for the stage. They never resemble the folks I work with. My c…
PARADOXICAL DUALITIES It's brainy almost beyond endurance and savvy in its approach/avoidance strategies of gaming love. Happily, Itamar Moses' Completeness at Theater Wit is also engrossing…
NEW YORK (AP) " With perfect timing to brighten winter doldrums comes a revival of David Ives' hilarious six-pack of one-act plays, "All In the Timing."
The hit Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company production of Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" is coming back in the late spring.
Director Michael Leeds and a solid cast at the Plaza Theatre in Manalapan have mastered Neil Simon's challenging meld of witty comedy and throat-choking heartache, and make both perfectly pl…
Everyone from Maggie Smith to Tracey Morgan has their say.
RECOMMENDED Twenty years ago, a relatively unknown David Sedaris burst onto the NPR scene with a first-hand account of working as a Macy's elf. The rest, as they say, is history. Joe Mantell…
Sly and effortlessly endearing, Mitchell Fain as the elf plays the audience like a mouth harp, mischievously relishing the delicious details and shock effects of David Sedaris' naughty confe…
Theater Wit, the handsome three-stage complex at 1229 W. Belmont that serves as a home to both its own productions and those of resident and visiting Off Loop companies, has received a major…
MINING MEMORIES Adam Guettel's Floyd Collins remains the ultimate spelunking musical as it depicts a cave explorer entrapped by both hard rock and a media spectacle. The Burnt Part Boys, a 9…
One day, Steve O'Donnell was walking around the Village with his brother, Mark O'Donnell, the Tony Award-winning bookwriter of Hairspray and Cry-Baby, when a tourist came up to them …
One day, Steve O'Donnell was walking around the Village with his brother, Mark O'Donnell, the Tony Award-winning bookwriter of Hairspray and Cry-Baby, when a tourist came up to them …