Chicago is a fantastic destination for musical development; in fact, whenever I’m not reviewing theatre, you’re likely to catch me at work in musical theatre workshops providing dramaturgical assistance. There’s […]
Babes with Blades’ entirely female/ non-binary cast “Othello” is swift on its feet, quietly ferocious, and knits in a deeper examination of male privilege than any traditional production, just by […]
Pride Films and Plays and director Elizabeth Swanson have brought together a very close-quarters US premiere staging of Emma Donoghue’s already very intimate “I Know My Own Heart.” It’s a […]
It has been an unmatched pleasure to watch storefront theaters and burgeoning companies take on complicated art and unpack some weighty topics in 2018. We are seeing the beginning of […]
Sideshow Theatre’s world premiere of “HeLa” is so perfectly imperfect, simple and complex, insignificant and vast, I feel like I could watch it on a loop to relive every drop […]
(re)discover theater has an excellent knack for playing with your unease and shredding any idea of protective distance from a stage full of powerful, unpredictable feelings. With “The Innocents,” you […]
With her trademark giant 3-ring binder of tales, Roberta Miles holds unrepentant, unrelenting court, while being extremely at ease with her neuroses. She is a Chicago storytelling staple as required […]
You probably shouldn’t read this write-up of Lifeline’s Theatre’s “Neverwhere,” a new staging of their 2010 adaptation from Robert Kauzlaric, and I’ll tell you why. It’s not often a production […]
Sideshow Theatre has rendered a profound and gorgeous world premiere production with “Tilikum” that will move you and provoke you in the best way. Author Kristiana Rae Colon and director […]
So often, when iconic LGBTQIA characters appear in our cultural narratives, they don’t get the same freedom to be messy and flawed as heterosexual characters would in the same circumstance. […]