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 […]
You know what you’re getting into as soon as you sit down to watch “The Total Bent.” You see the full band warming up in a 1960’s-set recording studio and you vibrate […]
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 […]
There is something unsettling about six people sitting in silence and staring out at the audience. It’s not a comforting opening stage image in A Red Orchid’s “Small Mouth Sounds.” […]
Ernestine Crump’s family is in dire straits. She and her sister have lost their mother to illness, and their father to grief. He has moved the family from down South […]
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 […]
You there. Yes, you, the would-be Shakespeare adapter just itching to set a centuries-old work or two in outer space, the post-apocalyptic future, or present day, if the budget’s tight. […]
A person makes vital individual choices every day. A woman with alcoholism in her family abstains from drinking when out with friends. A man puts a seat belt on after […]
Show: “A View From the Bridge” Company: Goodman Theatre Venue: Goodman Theatre (170 N Dearborn) The smell of sea salt is referenced multiple times in Arthur Miller’s “A View From […]
Show: A New Brain Company: Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre Venue: The No Exit Cafe (6970 N. Glenwood Ave.) There is a metronome working overtime deep in the heart of Theo Ubique’s “A […]