Alex Edelman’s one-man show at Steppenwolf Theatre, Just For Us, directed by Adam Brace, is a hyperkinetic and hilarious long-form storytelling session about his prankish encounter with a group of white supremacists online and […]
The current TimeLine Theatre Chicago premiere production of Anna Deavere Smith’s Notes From the Field made me a bit regretful that Smith herself was not here in Chicago to perform the play as it was […]
The Chicago Opera Theater’s Midwest-premiere production of Book of Mountains and Seas is a solemn, reverential, and determinedly abstract work of vocal theatre. Drawing on an eponymous collection of ancient Chinese creation myths from the Qin […]
The nearly flawless Porchlight Music Theatre production of Cole Porter’s Anything Goes now playing at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts is a classic example of how lightness, silliness and absurdity in the theatre […]
I don’t know, or much care, if the producers of the new documentary, “The Disappearance of Shere Hite,” had hoped to attract an audience through the title’s misleading implication that it’s one of those wildly […]
In a recent article in the Atlantic Monthly, “Destigmatizing Drug Use Has Been a Profound Mistake,” journalists Keith Humphreys and Jonathan Caulkins describe a New York advertising campaign called “Let’s Talk Fentanyl,” which advises subway riders, […]
This summer’s Blank Theatre production of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along was pure magic, one of the finest musical productions of any size I have ever had the good fortune to experience. Could lightning strike […]
I always strive to be original in my theatre reviews — even contrarian when necessary — so I struggled to come up with an assessment of Citadel Theatre’s new production of the classic Broadway musical […]
In retrospect, the artistic worth and emotional impact of George Bernard Shaw’s classic late-Victorian era play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, has been overshadowed by the controversy and history of censure and suppression that attaches to it. […]
The last time I saw Rickie Lee Jones in concert, sometime in the early 1980s, she performed a mesmerizingly delicate version of the Left Banke’s pop hit, “Walk Away Renee” that I still recall, in […]
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