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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 Feature Oct 4, 2017
Becky Shaw, Fun Home, and nine more notable new stage shows

A black comedy at Windy City Playhouse and a black musical at Victory Gardens are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Gina Gionfriddo, Becky Shaw, Windy City Playhouse, Scott Weinstein, Rock of Ages, Hell in a Handbag Productions, Bewitched, Bewildered, Ron Weaver, Aaron Benham, Brigitte Ditmars, Fun Home, Victory Gardens Theater, Alison Bechdel, Gary Griffin, Lisa Kron, Jeanine Tesori, Danni Smith and Sage Elliott Harper, Stella Rose Hoyt, Hannah Starr, Sage Elliott Harper, Rob Lindley, McKinley Carter, Akvavit Theatre, Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts & Zombies, Ibsen's Ghosts, Gustav Tegby, Breahan Pautsch, Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Amber Sallis, Michael Woods, David Belew, Monster Club, Annoyance Theatre, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Dutch East Indies, Mary Wollstonecraft, The Rocky Balboa Picture Show, Cornservatory, Corn Productions, Rocky IV, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Allison Reinke, Tony n' Tina's Wedding, Paul Stroili, The Trojan Women, Euripides, Three Crows Theatre, Troy, Hector, Battle of Troy, Cassandra, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ronald Duncan, Judith Laughlin, Selena Lopez, Andromache, Worst of All/Peor de Todas, Water People Theater, National Museum of Mexican Art, Juan Jose Martín, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Iraida Tapia, Raquel Rios, Rebeca Alemán, Chicago International Latino Theater Festival, You're a Good Man, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, The Vampyre, John William Polidori, Maureen Monahan, Mark Walsh

Blogs, Bleader Nov 23, 2016
Court Theatre concludes its House of Atreus trilogy with a Hamlet-like Electra

Sandra Marquez and Kate Fry are darkly fascinating as Sophocles's murderous queen and her obsessed daughter.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Court Theatre, Electra, House of Atreus, Nicholas Rudall, Charles Newell, Iphigenia in Aulis, Agamemnon, Seret Scott, Sandra Marquez, Clytemnestra, Hamlet, Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature May 26, 2016
Jackalope's Prowess, Aguijón's Adverses, and seven more new stage shows

Ike Holter does it again—and so does Rey Andújar.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Aguijón Theater, Adverses, Rey Andújar, Euripides, Electra, Sándor Menéndez, Oswaldo Calderón, The Distance, Haven Theatre, Elly Green, Deborah Bruce, Medea, Phaedra Released, Poetry Is, Robert Eric Shoemaker, Catherine Theis, Mic Check, Spell, Zach Zimmerman, Cat McDonnell, iO, Interrobang Theatre, The North Pool, Rajiv Joseph, James Yost, Greg Pinsoneault, Old Hobbits Die Hard, New Millennium Theatre Company, Adam Rosowicz, Alex B. Reynolds, Die Hard, Lord of the Rings, Prowess, Sender, Ike Holter, Jackalope Theatre, Rent, Jonathan Larson, Metropolis Performing Arts Center, Lauren Rawitz, Irish Theatre of Chicago, Spinning, Deirdre Kinahan, Joanie Schultz, The Annoyance Theatre, Ben Larrison, Stevie Shale, Project #SquirrelTruth, Mick Napier, Very Much Forever

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Jan 29, 2016
Le Switch, The Mutilated, and nine more new reviews worth your notice

On the off-Loop scene: the latest from local playwright Philip Dawkins, an obscure Tennessee Williams one-act, and a Neil LaBute funfest
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Bye Bye Birdie, Tammy Mader, Drury Lane Theatre, Michelle Aravena, Leryn Turlington, Signal Ensemble Theatre, The Consultant, Heidi Schreck, Courtney Jones, Aguijón Theater, Epopeya, Hecuba, Euripides, Abel González Melo, Oracle Theatre, The Hairy Ape, Eugene O'Neill, Julian Parker, Monty Cole, The Mutilated, Tennessee Williams, Mierka Girten, Jennifer Engstrom, A Red Orchid Theatre, Dado, Steep Theatre Co., Posh, Laura Wade, Dash Barber, Christopher Borek, Jonathan Barry, Bruce Norris, Domesticated, Sunset Baby, AnJi White, Kelvin Roston Jr., TimeLine Theatre Company, Dominique Morisseau, About Face Theatre, Le Switch, Philip Dawkins, The Homosexuals, Charm, Northlight Theatre, Steppenwolf Garage, [Title of Show], Jeff Bowen, Hunter Bell, Open Door Repertory, Ashton Byrum, Kellye Howard, Transparent, Vices & Virtues, Profiles Theatre, Neil LaBute, Betsy Bowman, Tom McGregor, 10-K, Swallowing Bicycles

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 19, 2014
Recommended
At Court Theatre, a fierce, cold, beautiful Iphigenia in Aulis

Euripides's tragedy shows us both the necessity and the uselessness of action.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Iphigenia in Aulis, Court Theatre, Euripides, Charles Newell, Nicholas Rudall, Mark L. Montgomery, Christopher Donahue, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Aug 13, 2014
Recommended
All Our Tragic combines 32 Greek tragedies into a playful 12-hour production

The Hypocrites balance serious fare with a bubblegum-pop sensibility in their latest production.
- By Zac Thompson
- Tags: Theater Review, All Our Tragic, The Hypocrites, Sean Graney, Den Theatre, Greek tragedy, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Herakles, Oedipus, the Trojan War, Atreus, Walter Briggs, Ezekiel Sulkes, Christine Stulik, Alison Siple, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 31, 2013
Ancient myth meets modern economics in Luis Alfaro's Mojada

Medea—transplanted to Pilsen—is more wounded soul than tribal priestess.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Luis Alfaro, Electricidad, Goodman Theatre, Sophocles, Electra, Oedipus el Rey, Theban, Los Angeles, Mojada, Victory Gardens Theater, Chay Yew, Euripides, Michoacan, El Norte

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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.

Becky Shaw, Fun Home, and nine more notable new stage shows

A black comedy at Windy City Playhouse and a black musical at Victory Gardens are among this week's best bets.

Court Theatre concludes its House of Atreus trilogy with a Hamlet-like Electra

Sandra Marquez and Kate Fry are darkly fascinating as Sophocles's murderous queen and her obsessed daughter.

Jackalope's Prowess, Aguijón's Adverses, and seven more new stage shows

Ike Holter does it again—and so does Rey Andújar.

Le Switch, The Mutilated, and nine more new reviews worth your notice

On the off-Loop scene: the latest from local playwright Philip Dawkins, an obscure Tennessee Williams one-act, and a Neil LaBute funfest

Recommended
At Court Theatre, a fierce, cold, beautiful Iphigenia in Aulis

Euripides's tragedy shows us both the necessity and the uselessness of action.

Recommended
All Our Tragic combines 32 Greek tragedies into a playful 12-hour production

The Hypocrites balance serious fare with a bubblegum-pop sensibility in their latest production.

Ancient myth meets modern economics in Luis Alfaro's Mojada

Medea—transplanted to Pilsen—is more wounded soul than tribal priestess.

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

A black comedy at Windy City Playhouse and a black musical at Victory Gardens are among this week's best bets.

Sandra Marquez and Kate Fry are darkly fascinating as Sophocles's murderous queen and her obsessed daughter.

Ike Holter does it again—and so does Rey Andújar.

On the off-Loop scene: the latest from local playwright Philip Dawkins, an obscure Tennessee Williams one-act, and a Neil LaBute funfest

Euripides's tragedy shows us both the necessity and the uselessness of action.

The Hypocrites balance serious fare with a bubblegum-pop sensibility in their latest production.

Medea—transplanted to Pilsen—is more wounded soul than tribal priestess.

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