Review: Slow-burning ‘Prodigal Son’ introduces a new company
The John Patrick Shanley play, now by JK Entertainment at the Athenaeum Center, centers on the relationships between a student and the adults he gets to know at school.
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Review: In ‘Saving Myself’ by Subtext Studio, teenage girls on a Catholic youth retreat
Directed by Omar Vicente Fernández, the girls in this new play by María Arreol are restless with their respective secrets.
Review: In ‘Wish You Were Here’ at Remy Bumppo, friends are scattered by the Iranian Revolution
When your home country is no longer a safe and nurturing place, do you stay or leave? And when a close-knit group of friends is scattered across continents by their...
Review: In ‘Rabbits in Their Pockets’ at Lifeline Theatre, sisters reunite with the help of a little magic
This world premiere play is the first from Lifeline’s BIPOC Developmental Workshop, and was inspired by A.A. Milne’s poem “Cherry Stones” and the “Br’er Rabbit” stories.
Review: In ‘Dial M for Murder’ at Drury Lane, figuring out whodunit was never the point
This murder mystery has been updated but still has plenty of period-appropriate charm and melodrama in a new production in the western 'burbs.
Review: In Strawdog Theatre’s world premiere, teenagers face the struggles of growing up in the ’80s
Early on, the play sets up familiar coming-of-age tensions of maintaining old friendships versus cultivating new ones, but it's soon apparent that Mo and Steff are dealing with darker problems.
Review: In Hershey Felder’s “Rachmaninoff and the Tsar,” the composer is in conversation with his past
Felder's shows about famous composers usually are solo affairs, but his latest at Writers Theatre in Glencoe casts a second actor in the role of Tsar Nicholas II.
Review: Sandbox Theatre Collective gives Anton Chekhov’s ‘Three Sisters’ the immersive treatment
The audience, limited to 15 people per performance, embark on a journey through the United Church of Rogers Park’s nearly 100-year-old building.
Review: City Lit offers a challenging and poignant production of ‘Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train’
The script probes the meaning of justice, the limits of the law in morally gray situations and the role of religious faith in an institution not conducive to redemption.
Review: Dystopian ‘Frontieres Sans Frontieres’ by Theatre Y raises provocative questions
Phillip Howze’s experimental, often confounding play, draws on theatrical traditions of absurdism, burlesque and commedia dell’arte to satirize a slew of Western interlopers.