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Arts & Culture, Theater Review Oct 9, 2019
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A streamlined version of A Doll's House races through Writers Theatre

Even without a door slam, Henrik Ibsen's classic hits home.
- By Kerry Reid
- Tags: Theater Review, A Doll's House, Writers Theatre, Henrik Ibsen, Sandra Delgado, Michael Halberstam, Lavina Jadhwani, Cher Álvarez, Greg Matthew Anderson, Tiffany Renee Johnson, Adam Poss, Bradley Grant Smith, Amy J. Carle, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 13, 2019
A Doll’s House, Part 2 checks in on Ibsen’s characters 15 years later

Nora Helmer returns—and this time it's personal.
- By Justin Hayford
- Tags: Theater Review, A Doll's House Part 2, Steppenwolf Theatre, Lucas Hnath, Henrik Ibsen, Robin Witt, sequel

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 15, 2018
A dramatization of eternal hell would be preferable to Redtwist's maudlin, moralizing Ghosts

The time, place, and motives are unclear in the humorless production.
- By Dmitry Samarov
- Tags: Theater Review, Ghosts, Redtwist Theatre, Henrik Ibsen, eternal hell, Old World, 19th century

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 28, 2018
The Goodman’s new Enemy of the People gives us a hero we can’t believe in

This Thomas Stockmann is courageous, tenacious, and a little nuts: a man of our times.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, An Enemy of the People, Henrik Ibsen, Goodman Theatre, Thomas Stockmann, Robert Falls, environmental disaster, Philip Earl Johnson, Scott Jaeck, David Darlow, Lanise Anthoine Shelley

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

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Nov 23, 2016
Roz and Ray, Turtle, and eight more new stage shows

A tables-turning HIV drama and a world premiere from Redtwist are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Beth in July, R.J. Tsarov, Antonio Brunetti, Lauren Demerath, Crazy for You, Girl Crazy, George and Ira Gershwin, Ken Ludwig, Clyde Alves, Matt Crowle, Lyric Opera, Jules Massenet, Don Quichotte, Chris Maravich, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Clémentine Margaine, Nicola Alaimo, Sir Andrew Davis, A Hedda Gabler, Red Tape Theatre, Nigel O'Hearn, Henrik Ibsen, ImprovOpoly, Under the Gun Theater, Lip Cervix, Ali Carney, Kate Nolan, McKenzie Morrell, Emma Macmillan, Tiffany Streng, Public House Theatre, Taco Tuesdays, Roz and Ray, Victory Gardens Theater, Chay Yew, Mary Beth Fisher, James Vincent Meredith, The Normal Heart, Larry Kramer, HIV/AIDS, TimeLine Theatre, Stomp, Savion Glover, Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk, Blue Man Group, Nothing Without a Company, The Living Canvas, [Trans]Formation, transgender, intersex, nonbinary, Turtle, Jake Jeppson, Redtwist Theatre, Emily Tate, Drew Johnson, Michael Sherwin, Carolyn Kruse, Daniel Friedman, Damon Kiely, Karen Hartman

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Oct 25, 2016
Grounded, Dogs of Rwanda, and a dozen more new theater reviews

Two solo performances are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Allá en San Fernando, Collectivo El Pozo, Leslie Magdalena Holguín, José Rochel, Carolina Escrich, Raúl Doronte, Stage Left Theatre, The Bottle Tree, Beth Kander, Kathryn Acosta, Amy Szerlong, The Right Brain Project, The Dancing Plague, Joseph Ramski, Nathan Robbel, Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints, Dark Sisters, Nico Muhly, Stephen Karam, Third Eye Theatre Ensemble, Jason Carlson, Dogs of Rwanda, Sean Christopher Lewis, Rwandan genocide, Grounded, George Brant, drone warfare, Amber Kelly, Lexi Saunders, Leavings, Polarity Ensemble Theatre, Gail Parrish, Ashley Honore Roberson, Lecherous Honey, Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts, Cock and Bull Theatre, Ariane Mnouchkine, Théâtre du Soleil, Georges Bigot, Theatre Y, Macbeth, Runaways Lab Theatre, Mary Shelley Sees the Future, Frankenstein, Olivia Lilley, Multitudes, John Hollingworth, Rasaka Theatre Company, Vitalist Theatre, Liz Carlin Metz, Bradford, England, Saturn Returns, Tif Henderson, NeoFuturists, NeoFuturarium, Thumbelina, Lifeline Theatre, Hans Christian Andersen, Brandi Lee, Zombie Broads, The Factory Theater, Corrbette Pasko, Sara Sevigny, Janice L. Blixt

Columns & Opinion, On Culture Apr 14, 2015
Michael Halberstam moonlights with the fledgling company Definition Theatre

As A Doll's House plays in the city, Writers Theatre's new Jeanne Gang-designed facility goes up in the burbs.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: On Culture, Writers Theatre, Michael Halberstam, Wall Street Journal, Glencoe, Jeanne Gang, Chopin Theatre, Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House, Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christmas in Wales, Pat Rahmann, Apple Tree, Northlight Theater, Glencoe Woman's Library Club, Niedecker, Lorine Niedecker, Kathryn Lipuma, The Diary of Anne Frank, Kimberly Senior, Marjorie Prime

Blogs, Bleader Aug 8, 2014
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Show us your Ibsen, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, J.R. Jones, Jonathan Demme, Rachel Getting Married, A Master Builder, Wallace Shawn, Henrik Ibsen, Andre Gregory, Philadelphia movie, The Silence of the Lambs, Lisa Joyce, DePaul University, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ben Sachs, One Day Pina Asked, Pina Bausch, Chantal Akerman, Jeanne Dielman 23 Quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles, Calvary movie, Calvary Brendan Gleeson, Unsound Darius Britt, Black Harvest Film Festival, Alive Inside, The 4th Meeting, Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel Studios, The Hundred-Foot Journey, Helen Mirren, Into the Storm, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Violette Emmanuelle Devos, Violette Leduc, What If, Zoe Kazan, Daniel Radcliffe, George Lucas, American Graffiti, Millennium Park, Vittorio de Sica, The Bicycle Thief, Tivoli Downers Grove, After Hours Film Society, Alfred Hitchcock Blackmail, John Schlesinger, Midnight Cowboy, Logan Theater Chicago, Rouben Mamoulian, Silk Stockings, Music Box, David Wain, Wet Hot American Summer, University of Chicago Doc Films, Dennis Scott, Hoot Gibson, King of the Rodeo, Second Saturday Silent Cinema, Hideout Chicago, Jessica Hopper, Chicago Film Archives, film festivals, movies, Video

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Jan 22, 2014
Putting the humanity back in Hedda Gabler

Writers Theatre's full-color take on Ibsen's classic
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, Writers Theatre, Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen, Kimberly Senior, Kate Fry, Ayn Rand, ean Fortunato, Scott Parkinson, Mark Montgomery

Blogs, Bleader Jan 27, 2011
Dinner & a Show: Thursday 1/27

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Film, Music, Food & Drink, Jayhawks, Mark Olsen, Gary Louris, Hollywood Town Hall, Tomorrow the Green Grass, Flying Burrito Brothers, Byrds, Ken Callahan, George Drakoulis, the Vic, Sheffield's, Mars Williams, Liquid Soul, the Psychedelic Furs, Peter Brotzmann, Mike Reed, In the Context Of, Elastic, Cocina Boricua, A Doll's House, Chris Maher, Henrik Ibsen, Kate Cares, Stephen Dunn, Franks 'n' Dawgs, Joe Doren, Blackbird, Sixteen, The Social Network, David Fincher, Aaron Sorkin, Brew & View at the Vic, Wilde Bar & Restaurant, Oscar Wilde

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

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Jan 25, 1990
Ghosts

Tony Adler reviews Court Theatre's 1990 production of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts.
- By Anthony Adler
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Court Theatre, Ghosts, Henrik Ibsen

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A streamlined version of A Doll's House races through Writers Theatre

Even without a door slam, Henrik Ibsen's classic hits home.

A Doll’s House, Part 2 checks in on Ibsen’s characters 15 years later

Nora Helmer returns—and this time it's personal.

A dramatization of eternal hell would be preferable to Redtwist's maudlin, moralizing Ghosts

The time, place, and motives are unclear in the humorless production.

The Goodman’s new Enemy of the People gives us a hero we can’t believe in

This Thomas Stockmann is courageous, tenacious, and a little nuts: a man of our times.

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.

Roz and Ray, Turtle, and eight more new stage shows

A tables-turning HIV drama and a world premiere from Redtwist are among this week's best bets.

Grounded, Dogs of Rwanda, and a dozen more new theater reviews

Two solo performances are among this week's best bets.

Michael Halberstam moonlights with the fledgling company Definition Theatre

As A Doll's House plays in the city, Writers Theatre's new Jeanne Gang-designed facility goes up in the burbs.

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Show us your Ibsen, and the rest of this week's screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Putting the humanity back in Hedda Gabler

Writers Theatre's full-color take on Ibsen's classic

Dinner & a Show: Thursday 1/27

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.

Ibsen's Dead Issues

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

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Tony Adler reviews Court Theatre's 1990 production of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts.

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Even without a door slam, Henrik Ibsen's classic hits home.

Nora Helmer returns—and this time it's personal.

The time, place, and motives are unclear in the humorless production.

This Thomas Stockmann is courageous, tenacious, and a little nuts: a man of our times.

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

A tables-turning HIV drama and a world premiere from Redtwist are among this week's best bets.

Two solo performances are among this week's best bets.

As A Doll's House plays in the city, Writers Theatre's new Jeanne Gang-designed facility goes up in the burbs.

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue

Writers Theatre's full-color take on Ibsen's classic

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.

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

Tony Adler reviews Court Theatre's 1990 production of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts.

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