Kerry Reid

I’ve seen more than 30 shows at Trap Door Theatre over the past 16 years. Yet their current offering, Tadeusz Rozewicz’s “The Old Woman Broods,” may be the Trap Dooriest...

The opening moments of Strawdog Theatre’s “The Revolutionists” feel like they might be perfectly at home at Trap Door. Four women, garbed in deconstructed variants of 18th century garb, stand...

In January 1951, a 30-year-old black woman with five children was diagnosed with cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital. After enduring a horrific series of radiation treatments for months, she...

It seems every year that events conspire to make the Goodman’s production of “A Christmas Carol” an exercise in both cheery holiday escapism and timely consciousness raising. So it is...

“Soon it’s gonna rain, I can see it. Soon it’s gonna rain, I can tell.” All right, fine. Those lyrics are from “The Fantasticks” and not “110 in the Shade,”...

In January 2018, Pew Research Center released the results of a study on women working in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) jobs that revealed 50 percent said they had...

Belarus Free Theatre is best known locally for stunning deconstructions of classics, such as their mind-blowing production of “King Lear” at Chicago Shakespeare in 2016. But the company, which has...