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Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Sep 29, 2020
Black artistic leaders take charge at several Chicago theaters

"There is no other way forward": reflecting on those who shaped them and the future they envision
- By Sheri Flanders
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, We See You White American Theater, Sana Selemon, BoHo Theatre, Shelley Delaney, Brian Evans, Neel McNeill, Definition Theatre, Sophiaa Nayar, Mariah Copeland, Kamille Dawkins, Kamille Dawkins, Strawdog Theatre, Sonita Surratt, Kemati J. Porter, eta Creative Arts Foundation, Fall Arts Preview

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Sep 16, 2020
Recommended
BoHo and Lifeline examine the public and private split

The Pursuit of Happiness and Pride and Prejudice confront the limitations of Zoom culture with exhilarating results.
- By Kerry Reid
- Tags: Theater Review, BoHo Theatre, The Pursuit of Happiness, Lifeline Theatre, Pride and Prejudice, Sana Selemon, Donterrio Johnson, Walter Marks, Sammy Davis Jr., Bert Williams, Marguerite Mariama, Tony Churchill, Natara Easter, Dillon Chitto, Christina Calvit, Jane Austen, Dorothy Milne, H, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Oct 9, 2019
Recommended
A small pond makes a great home for Big Fish

It flopped on the Great White Way, but BoHo Theatre's production finds the heart in this musical about tall tales and father-son relationships.
- By Jack Helbig
- Tags: Theater Review, Big Fish, BoHo Theatre, Daniel Wallace, John August, Andrew Lippa, Stephen Schellhardt, Michael McBride, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 19, 2019
Maybe a Big Mouth Billy Bass would liven up The River

But all we've got is a murky early effort from Tony winner Jez Butterworth.
- By Catey Sullivan
- Tags: Theater Review, The River, BoHo Theatre, Jez Butterworth, Jerrell L. Henderson, Joe Lino, Christina Gorman, Chelsee Carter, Eric Luchen

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 28, 2019
Bright Star will try the patience of even the most tenderhearted romantic

Grief and villainy are no match for optimism, dumb luck, and a banjo.
- By Justin Hayford
- Tags: Theater Review, Bright Star, Boho Theatre, Edie Brickell, Steve Martin, Ericka Mac

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 8, 2018
The romantic leads fail to heat up anywhere close to 110 in the Shade

Still, BoHo Theatre's production is earnest and likable.
- By Albert Williams
- Tags: Theater Review, 110 in the Shade, Boho Theatre, Theater Wit, The Rainmaer, N. Richard Nash, Tom Jones, Lizzie Curry, Harvey Schmidt, Bill Starbuck, Peter Marston Sullivan, Neala Barron, Tommy Thurston, Denzel Tsopnang

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Nov 2, 2017
The Comedy of Errors, Marie Christine, and eight more new stage shows to see

A cartoon-inspired staging of the Bard and a creole update of Medea are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, The Basement Company, Adam Harrell, Madison Smith, Death & Pretzels, The Comedy of Errors, Shakespare, Filament Theatre, Shakespeare All-Stars, JT Nagle, Polley Cooney, Arin Mulvaney, In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play, TimeLine Theatre, Sarah Ruhl, Mechelle Moe, In Sarah's Shadow: The Eleonora Duse Story, Olivia Lilley, Prop Thtr, Sarah Bernhardt, George Bernard Shaw, Marie Christine, Euripides, Medea, Michael John LaChiusa, BoHo Theatre, Lilli-Ann Brown, Curtis Bannister, Nicole Michelle, Kyrie Courter, Ken Singleton, Pavi Proczko, Patricia Cotter, 1980 (or Why I'm Voting for John Anderson), Jackalope Theatre, Patricia Cotter, Kaiser Ahmed, Hillary Horvath, The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves, Gwendolyn Brooks, Nora Brooks Blakely, Valerie King, Izaiah Harris, Marc Rogers, Aaron Mitchell Reese, Kemati J. Porter, Destiny Casson, Upstairs: The Musical, UpStairs Lounge, New Orleans, Wayne Self, Pride Films and Plays, Eric Coleman, Gary Trick, Yerma, Federico García Lorca, Max Truax, Theatre Y

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review May 24, 2017
Ideation, Token, and nine more stage shows to see now

A dark comedy from Jackalope and a go-for-the-jugular solo performance are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Ideation, Aaron Loeb, Gus Menary, Jackalope Theatre, Italian Bred, Candice Guardino, Steven Schirripa, The Sopranos, Johnny 10 Beer's Daughter, Arti Ishak, Randy Steinmeyer, Dana Lynn Formby, Emmi Hilger, Something Marvelous, The My Way Residential, Irish Theatre of Chicago, Belinda Bremner, Geraldine Aron, Kevin Theis, Subtext Theater Company, A Prayer for the Sandinistas, Pope John Paul II, Leigh Johnson, Jonathan Hagloch, Kate Robison, Northlight Theatre, Relativity, Albert Einstein, Mark St. Germain, Katherine Keberlein, Mike Nussbaum, BJ Jones, Halcyon Theatre, The River Bride, Marisela Treviño Orta, Rinska Carrasco-Prestinary, Sofia Tew, Flavia Pallozzi, Nate Santana, The Rogue Aviator, Otherworld Theatre Company, Tiffany Keane-Schaefer, Nick Izzo, St. Jude, Luis Alfaro, Victory Gardens, Kaye Winks, Token, Judy's Beat Lounge, Schoen Smith, BoHo Theatre, Three Days of Rain, Richard Greenberg, Derek Van Barham, Kyle Curry, Kate Black-Spence, Niko Kourtis

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Feb 15, 2017
The Scottsboro Boys, The Ghoul Exhibition, and nine more new theater reviews

A powerful Chicago premiere from Porchlight and a searing solo show on gun violence are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, The Arrow, The Arrow Cleans House, Neo-Futurists, Kurt Chiang, Lily Mooney, Red Theater Chicago, Beowulf: An Epic Quest of Music, Monsters, and Mead, Aaron Sawyer, Pavi Proczko, Brindin Sawyer, Brenda Scott Wlazlo, Beowulf, Grendel's mother, Lyric Opera, Georges Bizet, Carmen, Ekaterina Gubanova, Joseph Calleja, Rob Ashford, Eleonora Buratto, New American Folk Theatre, Deep in the Heart of Tuna, Ed Howard, Joe Sears, Jaston Williams, Greater Tuna, A Tuna Christmas, Tuna, Texas, Derek Van Barham, Anthony Whitaker, Grant Drager, Héctor Álvarez, The Ghoul Exhibition, Theatre Y, Melissa Lorraine, gun violence, Rhinofest, Runaways Lab Theatre, Gannon Reedy, Nathaniel Shane, Goddamn Geniuses: Legacy of Brillians, 1927 Solway conference, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, The History Boys, Alan Bennett, Laura Carney, Katherine Siegel, I Left My Heart: A Salute to the Music of Tony Bennett, Mercury Theater, Jim DeSelm, Robert Hunt, Evan Tyrone Martin, Kevin Bellie, David Grapes, Todd Olson, Quest, The Actors Gymnasium, 500 Clown, Leslie Buxbaum Danzig, Leo Tolstoy, The Three Questions, Amanda Crockett, Kevin O'Donnell, Porchlight Music Theatre, The Scottsboro Boys, Kander and Ebb, John Kander, Fred Ebb, Samuel G. Roberson Jr., Florence Walker-Harris, Breon Arzell, David Thompson, Doug Peck, BoHo Theatre, Urinetown, Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis, Aubrey Adams, Ariana Burks

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Aug 31, 2016
The breathtaking Next to Normal and seven more new stage shows

BoHo Theatre's production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show is musical theater at its very finest.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Fefu and Her Friends, María Irene Fornés, Susan Sontag, Halcyon Theatre, BoHo Theatre, Next to Normal, Linda Fortunato, Collette Todd, Brian Yorkey, Tom Kitt, Donterrio Johnson, Ciera Dawn, Bradley Atkinson, Gilbert Domally, Peter Robel, Ellen K. Morris, Oh, Coward!, Noel Coward, Roderick Cook, Cameron Turner, Joanna Riopelle, Ian Rigg, Rose, Rose Kennedy, Chappaquiddick, Senator Edward Kennedy, Laurence Leamer, Steve Scott, Linda Leamer, Sister Cities, Colette Freedman, Chimera Ensemble, Rainee Denham, Norma Chacon, Ashley Neal, The Starlight Lounge Presents Bracket and Spootz, Susan Glynn, David Yontz, Griffin Wenzler, Andy Bolduc, Garrison Keillor, Thee Trinity, Polemic Theater, Albert Einstein, Osama bin Laden, Oscar Wilde, The Time Is Now (Starting Tomorrow), Under the Gun Theater

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature May 19, 2016
A Full House musical, Sara Ruhl’s Eurydice, and 11 more new stage shows to see

How about a joyously trashy revival of Porn Minus Porn?
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, At Mister Kelly's, Three Cat Productions, Attend the Tale of Danny Tanner: A Full House Musical, Bob Saget, Clued In, Beat Lounge, Second City, Dennis T. Giacino, Disenchanted!, Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place, Broadway in Chicago, Vanessa Leuck), Eurydice, BoHo Theatre, Sara Ruhl, Amanda Jane Cross, Heartland Studio Theater, Charles Riffenburg, The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord, Scott Carter, Northlight Theatre, My Solo Show of All Duets, Shirley Lame, C.J. Shanoff, Annoyance Theatre & Bar, Dorota Masłowska, No Matter How Hard We Try, Max Truax, Trap Door Theatre, Under the Gun Theater, Porn Minus Porn, Life on Top, Ben Bowman, Genesis Theatricals, Satie et Cocteau, Erik Satie, Jean Cocteau, Mike Czuba, Five Lesbian Brothers, The Secretaries, About Face Theatre, Bonnie Metzgar, Kelli Simpkins, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, Lorraine Hansberry, Goodman Theatre, Anne Kauffman, Twisted Knots, Dave Danner, Royal George Theatre, Mary Cross, Ryan Kitley, Hard Rock Hotel

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Feb 18, 2016
Steppenwolf's The Flick, BoHo Theatre's Fugitive Songs, and 13 more new stage shows

Among the notables: limited runs of Cabaret and the one-man Sancho: An Act of Remembrance at Chicago Shakes
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Adoration of the Old Woman, José Rivera, UrbanTheatre Company, Juan Castañeda, Another Word for Beauty, Andrew Neftalí Perez, Melissa DuPrey, First Floor Theater, The Awake, Ken Urban, Chicago Dramatists, Scott Woldman, Beautiful Autistic, Blueberry Toast, Tympanic Theatre Company, Mary Laws, Cabaret, Kander and Ebb, Roundabout Theatre Company, Randy Harrison, Far From Heaven, Porchlight Music Theatre, Todd Haynes, Douglas Sirk, All That Heaven Allows, Summer Naomi Smart, The Flick, Annie Baker, Steppenwolf Theatre, Dexter Bullard, From These Fatal Loins, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare, The Ruckus, Derek Van Barham, Christopher Waldron, Jillian Rea, Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen, Fugitive Songs, BoHo Theatre, Zachary L. Gray, Jeffrey Poindexter, Interrogation, Scott Westerman, The Artistic Home, Looking Over the President's Shoulder, Manny Buckley, Alonzo Fields, Lee Daniels, The Butler, James Still, Marc Salem, Marnie & Phil, Actors Gymnasium, Chris Mathews, House Theatre of Chicago, Jeremy Sonkin, Kevin O'Donnell, Malic White, Molly Brennan, Pop Waits, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, Neo-Futurarium, Sancho: An Act of Remembrance, Paterson Joseph, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Shakespeare 400 Chicago

Blogs, Bleader Jun 22, 2012
Horrors historical (Eastland) and theatrical (Dancing Queen): the week in performing arts

Fresh performing arts reviews from Reader critics
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater, Arts, LGBT, Dance, Theater, Arts, Dance, Pride Fest, Neo-Futurists, 30 Queer Plays in 60 Straight Minutes, Visionfest, Time after Time, Dancing Queen, BoHo Theatre, Floyd Collins, Eastland, Brother/Sister Plays, The Brothers Size, Wild, Goodbye Cruel World, Paris Opéra Ballet, Dowager Daughters of Transcendence, Exit Pursued by a Bear, Mexican Wrestling Macbeth

Arts & Culture, Culture Vultures Jun 2, 2011
Culture Vultures: Zero Dean's travel blog, a Steppenwolf play, Achatz's memoir, and more
- By Lauri Apple
- Tags: Culture Vultures, Hot L Baltimore, Steppenwolf Theatre, Ginny Berg, Chicago Gallery News, Margi Cole, Dance COLEctive, Zero Dean, Peter Blair, BoHo Theatre, Grant Achatz, Nick Kokonas, Life, on the Line, Alinea, Elizabeth Levy, Barrel of Monkeys, The Oprah Winfrey Show, United Center, Silvio Marchetti, Italian Cultural Institute, Never Forgotten, Claude Andreini, Chicago Photography Center, Terezin Concentration Camp

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Jun 24, 2010
Ibsen's Dead Issues

It's a struggle to make Ghosts seem scandalous in the age of August: Osage County.
- By Kerry Reid
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts, Aurora Turner Hall, Lanford Wilson, BoHo Theatre, Bohemian Theatre Ensemble, A Doll's House, Lou Andreas-Salome, Saren Nofs-Snyder, Steve O'Connell, Katy Peterson, Anders Jacobson, Judy Radovsky, Lewis Miller, Charles Riffenburg

Blogs, Bleader Jan 21, 2010
Dinner & a Show: Thursday, 1/21

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Film, Music, Food & Drink, Performing Arts, Arts, Nile, Metro, Moxie, Don Cherry Project, Ken Vandermark, Elastic, Red Apple, The Passenger, Le Petit Paris, The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke, Landmark's Century Centre, Yuki Hana, Killer Joe, Tracy Letts, August: Osage County, Profiles Theatre, Grace African Restaurant, I Am My Own Wife, BoHo Theatre, Quesadillas y Mariscos Doña Lolis

Blogs, Bleader Mar 11, 2009
New Reader reviews

New Reader reviews
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Performing Arts, Onstage, Arts, Chicago Dramatists, Playground Theater, Storefront Theater, Teatro Luna, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Theatre Mir, The Arab-Israeli Cookbook, Brick Wall, Gorilla Tango, Camp Freedom, Black Sheep Productions, Everything Freezes, Sideshow Theatre, The Goat, Redtwist, Marriott Lincolnshire, Playing with Fire, BoHo Theatre, Police Academy: Insurgency Emergency, New Millennium Theatre, The Secrets Project, Genesis Ensemble, S-E-X-Oh! The Remix, The Shape of a Girl, Pegasus Players, The Solid Gold Cadillac, Open Eye Productions, Trying Too Hard, Athenaeum

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"There is no other way forward": reflecting on those who shaped them and the future they envision

The Pursuit of Happiness and Pride and Prejudice confront the limitations of Zoom culture with exhilarating results.

It flopped on the Great White Way, but BoHo Theatre's production finds the heart in this musical about tall tales and father-son relationships.

But all we've got is a murky early effort from Tony winner Jez Butterworth.

Grief and villainy are no match for optimism, dumb luck, and a banjo.

Still, BoHo Theatre's production is earnest and likable.

A cartoon-inspired staging of the Bard and a creole update of Medea are among this week's best bets.

A dark comedy from Jackalope and a go-for-the-jugular solo performance are among this week's best bets.

A powerful Chicago premiere from Porchlight and a searing solo show on gun violence are among this week's best bets.

BoHo Theatre's production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show is musical theater at its very finest.

How about a joyously trashy revival of Porn Minus Porn?

Among the notables: limited runs of Cabaret and the one-man Sancho: An Act of Remembrance at Chicago Shakes

Fresh performing arts reviews from Reader critics

It's a struggle to make Ghosts seem scandalous in the age of August: Osage County.

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.

New Reader reviews

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