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Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 3, 2020
Recommended
Mrs. Warren's Profession confronts our hypocrisies about sex work

Elaine Carlson delivers a biting title performance for Promethean Theatre.
- By Dan Jakes
- Tags: Theater Review, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Promethean Theatre Ensemble, George Bernard Shaw, Melanie Spewock, Michael D. Graham, Elaine Carlson, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 6, 2019
Recommended
The Suffrage Plays swaddles social commentary in satire

Three one-acts from the fight for women's franchise provide a cutting history lesson with Artemisia.
- By Catey Sullivan
- Tags: Theater Review, The Suffrage Plays, Artemisia, Evelyn Glover, George Bernard Shaw, A Chat with Mrs. Chicky, Miss Appleyard's Awakening, Press Cuttings, Beth Wolf, Lucinda Johnston, Megan DeLay, Brittani Yawn, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 29, 2019
Recommended
ShawChicago goes out the way it came in, with The Doctor's Dilemma

The company ends its run with the same play with which it first debuted in 1994.
- By Albert Williams
- Tags: Theater Review, Doctor's Dilemma, ShawChicago, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, J.M. Barrie, Noel Coward, Gary Alexander, Timothy W. Hull, Daniel Millhouse, Monica Orozco, Mark Richard, Ruth Page Center for the Performing Arts, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 8, 2019
ShawChicago turns a staged reading of Arms and the Man into a symphony

It's a perfect anti-romantic comedy, just in time for Valentine's Day.
- By Kerry Reid
- Tags: Theater Review, Arms and the Man, ShawChicago, George Bernard Shaw, Robert Scogin, Mary Michell, Callie Johnson, Barbara Zahora, Charles Stransky, Christian Gray, Lydia Berger Gray, Gary Alexander

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Sep 20, 2018
Recommended
Even after a century, Arms and the Man can still bring the laughs

City Lit Theater's production highlights the genius of George Bernard Shaw.
- By Max Maller
- Tags: Theater Review, Arms and the Man, City Lit Theater, George Bernard Shaw, the Balkans, Brian Pastor, Scottie Caldwell, Martin Diaz-Valdes, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 19, 2018
Shrew’d! attempts to make Taming of the Shrew palatable to a modern audience

When in doubt, they sing it out.
- By Jack Helbig
- Tags: Theater Review, shakespeare, taming of the shrew, first folio, george bernard shaw, david rice, lydia hiller, christopher kriz, Johanna McKenzie Miller, Christopher W. Jones, Ericka Mac

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 18, 2017
Bachelorette, Hard Times, and 12 more stage shows to see now

A "ferocious ensemble effort" and a pitch-perfect revival are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Anything and Always . . ., Nic Wehrwein, Coffee & Whiskey Productions, Michelle Alejandra Limon, Wesley James, Mary Iris Loncto, Spencer Davis, Michael Perlman, Bachelorette, At the Table, Leslye Headland, Carmen Molina, Level 11 Theatre, Billy Elliott, Porchlight Music Theatre, Brenda Didier, Lincoln Seymour, Jacob Kaiser, Lee Hall, Elton John, Sean Fortunato, Shanésia Davis, Burf of a Nation, Carla Stillwell, Leonard House, MPAACT, Donald Trump, World War III, Fool for Love, Zeljko Djukic, Facility Theatre, Sam Shepard, Stephen J. Bottoms, Wim Wenders, Paris, Texas, Endgame, Good Night, Fred Rogers, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Kadin McGreevy, Daniel Striped Tiger, The Devil's Disciple, George Bernard Shaw, ShawChicago, Ruth Page Center for the Arts, Doug MacKechnie, Gary Alexander, Barbara Zahora, Robert Scogin, Lookingglass Theatre, Hard Times, Charles Dickens, Coketown, the Spanish Web, Audrey Anderson, Cordelia Dewdney, Mara Blumenfeld, Andre Pluess, Dan Ostling, Occidental Express, Romania, Istvan Szabo K, Trap Door Theatre, Punk, The New Colony, Michael Allen Harris, Diana Raiselis, Katrina Dion, Huggable Riot, Meaghan Morris, Nathaniel Strain, The Skin of Our Teeth, Thornton Wilder, Krissy Vanderwarker, Remy Bumppo Theatre, Kelly O'Sullivan, First Floor Theater, Two Mile Hollow, Leah Nanako Winkler, Arnel Sancianco, Hutch Pimentel

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Oct 12, 2017
Choir Boy, Foxfinder, and 12 more stage shows to see now

A play by Moonlight author Tarell Alvin McCraney and a paranoiac drama by British playwright Dawn Hall are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Blue/Orange, Runcible Theatre Company, Joe Penhall, National Theatre of Great Britian, Owen Hickle Edwards, Stephen Fedo, Nathaniel Andrew, Idi Amin Dada, Uganda, National Health Service, Andrew Root, Royal George Theatre Center, Raven Theatre, Tarell Alvin McCraney, the Brother/Sister Plays, Moonlight, Choir Boy, Michael Menendian, Christopher W. Jones, Breon Arzell, Frederick Harris, The Crucible, Steppenwolf for Young Adults, Arthur Miller, Arnel Sancianco, Jonathan Berry, Wallace Shawn, Evening at the Talk House, A Red Orchid Theatre, HB Ward, Shade Murray, Foxfinder, Dawn King, Interrobang Theatre, Alexandra Fisher, David Anthony Marshall, Jack Olin, Margaret Knapp, The Invisible Hand, Ayad Akhtar, Steep Theatre, Joel Reitsma, Audrey Francis, Lady Faust, Sharai Bohannon, Sophie Duntley, Christopher Marlowe, Faust, Torey Byrne, The Making of an American Folk Hero, Martin Zimmerman, Kelly Howe, The Other Theatre Company, The Man-Beast, First Folio Theatre, Joseph Zettelmaier, Hayley Rice, Elizabeth Laidlaw, Aaron Christensen, Lyric Opera, Rigoletto, Verdi, Victor Hugo, Ryan Opera Center, Quinn Kelsey, Mathew Polenzani, Michael Yeargen, Marco Armiliato, Saint Joan, George Bernard Shaw, Marylynne Anderson-Cooper, Poetic Forum Collective, Christabel Donkor, de Chirico, UniverSoul Circus, Cedric Walker, Bone Breakers, Reutan Collective, Wasteland Hero, Kyle Encinas, Nicky Jasper, Kate Lass, Bobby Hoffman, Kim Fukawa, Witi, an Interactive Show, Matthew Hoelter, iO

Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 3, 2017
Lyric Opera’s Fair Lady is most fair indeed

There's no need to worry about the company’s staging of Lerner and Loewe's classic musical.
- By Jack Helbig
- Tags: Theater Review, Lyric Opera, My Fair Lady, Allen Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, Lerner and Loewe, George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion, Gabriel Pascal, Robert Carsen, Théâtre du Châtelet, Olivier Fredj, Richard E. Grant, Lisa O’Hare, Lynne Page, Anthony Powell

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Sep 22, 2016
Parachute Men, You on the Moors Now, and eight more new theater reviews

This week's stage highlights include three losers who (hopefully) make good and four 19th-century fictional heroines battling their would-be betrotheds.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Agnes of God, Aleatoric Theatre, Lisa McConnell, Courtney Stennett, Joette Waters, Carroll Gardens, A. Zell Williams, Ann Filmer, Gregory Geffrard, Minita Gandhi, Red Theater, The Feast, Celine Song, Pavi Proczco, Grizzly Mama, Sarah Palin, Megan Carney, George Brant, Taylor Blim, Tara Mallen, Akvavit Theatre, Hand in Hand, Sofia Fredén, Breahan Eve Pautsch, Jae K. Renfrow, Chad Eric Bergman, Writers Theatre, Julius Caesar, Fritz Lang, Thomas Vincent Kelly, Michael Halberstam, Scott Parkinson, Misalliance, George Bernard Shaw, ShawChicago, Miss Holmes, Sir Arthus Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Katie McLean Hainsworth, Mandy Walsh, LifeLine Theater, Ashley Ann Woods, Mandy Alvarado, Ricardo Gutiérrez, the Hypocrites, You on the Moors Now, Brontë sisters, 19th-century novels, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, Jo March, Lizzy Bennet, Heathcliff, Mr. Darcy, Laurie, Mr. Rochester, Theodore Laurence, Jaclyn Backhaus, Devon de Mayo

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Jun 30, 2016
Anon(ymous), Pygmalion, and seven more new theater reviews

A haunting show from the Cuckoo's Theater Project and George Bernard Shaw's classic are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Anon(ymous), Naomi Iizuka, The Odyssey, The Cuckoo's Theater Project, Rocco Renda, Company, Writers Theatre, Stephen Sondheim, George Furth, Thom Miller, The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged), Heartland Studio Theatre, Migdalia Cruz, Lolita de Lares, Marcela Muñoz, Urban Theater Company, Nick & Gabe: American Champions, Second City, My Fair Lady, Jason Gerace, Oak Park Festival Theatre, Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw, This, Windy City Playhouse, Melissa James Gibson, The Unfortunates, Theater Wit, Aoise Stratford, Jack the Ripper, Gail Rastorfer, SoloChicago, The Woman Who Amuses Herself, Mona Lisa theft, Victor Lodato, Vincenzo Peruggia, Nathan Thompson, Idle Muse Theatre Company, Nathan Pease, Laura Wiley, La Gioconda, Kevin Theis, Amanda Drinkall

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Apr 20, 2016
Dreamgirls, Dead Man Walking, The Few, and ten more new theater reviews

Porchlight wows, Piven Theatre crusades, and Steep Theatre goes hard-core American.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, The Book Club Play, Karen Zacarias, 16th Street Theater, Kevin Christopher Fox, Ann Filmer, Brad Harbaugh, Piven Theatre, Dead Man Walking, Sister Helen Prejean, Tim Robbins, Patricia Lavery, Jay Reed, Mikalina Rabinsky, Black Ensemble Theater, Dionne Warwick, Jackie Taylor, Rueben D. Echoles, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Dreamgirls, Porchlight Music Theatre, Brenda Didier, Effie White, Evan Tyrone Martin, Eric Lewis, The Few, Steep Theatre, Samuel D. Hunter, Peter Moore, Dana Black, Travis Coe, Eclipse Theatre, Jesus Hopped the "A" Train, Anish Jethmalani, Stephen Adly Giurgis, Elizabeth Birnkrant, Johnathan Nieves, The Kinematics, Mark Ravenhill, Pool (No Water), Milkwhite, Anthony Kochensparger, Chris Smith, Chicago Art Department, Strangeloop Theatre, Mitera, Maria Burnham, Othello: The Remix, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Jeffrey Qaiyum, Gregory Qaiyum, Q Brothers, Shakespeare, Postell Pringle, Jackson Doran, Tympanic Theatre, Paper City Phoenix, Walt McGough, Rebecca Willingham, Rogue Theater, Pygmalion, Right Brain Project, George Bernard Shaw, Nate White, Nellie Ognacevic, The Other Theatre Company, The Realm, Sarah Myers, Kelly Howe, Trash!, New American Folk Theatre, Anthony Whitaker, Jamal Howard, Johnny Drago

Blogs, Bleader Oct 31, 2013
Reader's Agenda Thu 10/31: The Fear Haunted House, Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the Reader's Halloween Booze Cruise

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, October 31
- By Jillian Sandler
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Zombie Army Productions, The Fear Haunted House, Navy Pier, Music Box, Rocky Horror Picture Show, George Bernard Shaw, Fanny's First Play, 20% Theatre Company, Heartland Studio Theatre

Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 12, 2013
Our guide to fall theater 2013

A founding text of AIDS activism, revived. Plus: Personal memories of Pullman Porter Blues, and eight best bets for fall.
- By Tony Adler, Tal Rosenberg, Deanna Isaacs, Jack Helbig, Danette Chavez, and Sam Worley
- Tags: Fall Arts, Terminus, Mark O'Rowe, Interrobang Theatre Project, Jeffry Stanton, Old Jews Telling Jokes, Daniel Okrent, Peter Gethers, Royal George Theatre, Tim Kazurinsky, The North China Lover, Heidi Stillman, Marguerite Duras, Rae Gray, Deanna Dunagan, The Sovereign Statement, Neo-Futurists, Bilal Dardai, James T. Mangan, Bring Me the Head of James Franco, That I May Prepare a Savory Goulash in the Narrow and Misshapen Pot of His Skull, James Franco, Ian Belknap, Write Club, Fanny's First Play, 20% Theatre Company, Jane Martin, Jon Jory, The Male Feminist, George Bernard Shaw, Hellcab, Famous Door Theatre Company, Darrell Cox, Konstantin Khrustov, An Iliad, Court Theatre, Timothy Edward Kane, Athenaeum Theatre, Royal George Theatre Center, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Neo-Futurarium, Den Theatre, Main Stage

Arts & Culture, Culture Vultures Mar 28, 2013
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This week's Culture Vultures recommend:

The Rebuilding Exchange, the Ruth Page Center for the Arts, and the Other People podcast
- By Hannah Lorenz and Hannah Gold
- Tags: Culture Vultures, Daniel Evans, FRTCRT, books, Dmitry Samarov, Other People, podcasts, Domestic Workwear, Rebuilding Exchange, DIY, Pedal to the People, bicycle repair, Radical Mending Class, classes, workshops, mending, worm composting, rewiring, steam heat, Rasa Gierstikas, The Shit Show, Shaw Chicago, French language, dance, lessons, Pilates, yoga, George Bernard Shaw, Widowers' Houses, Lesley Arfin, Girls, writing, writers, David Shields, Bernie Glassman, American Zen Movement, WTF with Marc Maron, Brad Listi, Ruth Page Center for the Arts

Blogs, Bleader Feb 24, 2012
Margaret: and Tony Soprano?

Margaret's protagonist, Lisa, is in it for herself
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Film, Margaret Week, Gene Siskel Film Center, Kenneth Lonergan, New York, David Chase, The Sopranos, Tony Soprano, Jeannie Berlin, Lorraine Bracco, George Bernard Shaw

Blogs, Bleader Feb 9, 2012
The latest Reader performing arts reviews and previews

Fresh theater and dance reviews and previews
- By Sharon Lurye
- Tags: Religion, Onstage, Performing Arts, Dance, Arts, Piety, Hesperia, Disgraced, Androcles and the Lion, George Bernard Shaw, Jeremy Menekseoglu, The Foreigner, Bachelorette, The Gog/Magog Project, Jack's Precious Moment, Letters/X, El Mari Chi Chi, burlesque, Peter Pan's Shadow, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Unnecessary Farce, Zastrozzi, Solo Jams, Bonedanse, RNDC, River North Chicago Dance Company

Film, Movie Review Feb 2, 2012
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Soldier of misfortune

Ralph Fiennes revives Shakespeare's military tragedy Coriolanus
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Review, Ralph Fiennes, William Shakespeare, Shakespeare, democracy, aristocracy, T.S. Eliot, George Bernard Shaw, Laurence Olivier, Mussolini, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, cable news, warriors, Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Chastain, Video

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review May 5, 2011
Magic Kingdom: George Bernard Shaw’s Heartbreak House creates its own privileged zone of honesty.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House, Writers' Theatre, Atra Asdou, John Lister, John Reeger

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Feb 18, 2010
The No-Sing Ring

Wagner's epic opera, without the opera, at the Building Stage
- By Zac Thompson
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, The Ring Cycle, Richard Wagner, Building Stage, Blake Montgomery, Joanie Schultz, Chicago theater, theater review, Siegried, Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Nazis, George Bernard Shaw, The Building Stage

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