
Review: “Birds of a Feather” (Greenhouse Theater Center)
Love is a rare bird. Maybe it’s as majestic as a hawk, or as utilitarian as a penguin, but it is always unique, and all metaphorical bird-watchers would do well […]
Love is a rare bird. Maybe it’s as majestic as a hawk, or as utilitarian as a penguin, but it is always unique, and all metaphorical bird-watchers would do well […]
A film as flawed, but as arguably compelling as 1959’s “Imitation of Life” deserves a much more scathing and nuanced take-down than it ever inspired during its original run. It’s […]
The problems that the secretaries of Consolidated Industries faced in “9 to 5,” that 1980 blockbuster comedy now turned stage musical, are depressingly present in the workplace today. There is […]
“Kingdom” is not so much a story about Disney World, and more a story about a perception of the Magic Kingdom, that it can be a place of acceptance as […]
Lots of perfect little details ensure that “Nice Girl” is a perfect, lived-in 1984; stacks of Jane Fonda workout tapes, an ashtray on every table and cans of TAB for […]
She waits in her picturesque 1969 living room, with every surface covered in photos and albums. She’s the figurehead of the wealthy, pioneering, influential, ideal American family — the Kennedys […]
When faced with nuclear annihilation, it may seem pointless to ask how your family will gather for dinner after the bomb drops. But that nagging concern about etiquette and connection […]
Black Ensemble Theater has cultivated an ideal retrospective with “Sammy: A Tribute to Sammy Davis Jr.”; it is a perfect showcase of this company’s fantastic vocalists, and precision numbers from […]
Show: “Shakin’ the Mess Outta Misery” Company: Pegasus Theatre Chicago Venue: Chicago Dramatists (1105 W Chicago Ave) There is only one way for the women of Shay Youngblood’s “Shakin’ the […]
Show: “The Last Days of the Commune” Company: Prop Thtr Venue: Prop Thtr (3502 N Elston Ave) “One or all, all or nothing, it will be.” So sings the collection […]