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Arts & Culture, Theater Review Sep 18, 2019
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Tiny Beautiful Things gives us a "Sugar" rush

Cheryl Strayed's advice column becomes a story circle in Nia Vardalos's adaptation.
- By Kerry Reid
- Tags: Theater Review, Tiny Beautiful Things, Victory Gardens Theater, Nia Vardalos, Cheryl Strayed, Vanessa Stalling, Janet Ulrich Brooks, Jessica Dean Turner, Eric Slater, August Forman, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 8, 2019
Recommended
The Children vividly imagines the worst-case scenario after an environmental disaster.

Playwright Lucy Kirkwood's devastated world is nightmarishly familiar.
- By Catey Sullivan
- Tags: Theater Review, The Children, Steppenwolf Theatre, Lucy Kirkwood, Fukushima disaster, Janet Ulrich Brooks, Yasen Peyankov, Ora Jones, Jonathan Berry, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Oct 31, 2018
Janet Ulrich Brooks leads a superb Master Class

Her magnetic, mercurial performance anchors TimeLine's portrait of Maria Callas.
- By Albert Williams
- Tags: Theater Review, Master Class, TimeLine Theatre, Janet Ulrich Brooks, Maria Callas, Terrence McNally, Molly Hernández, Keirsten Hodgens, Eric Anthony Lopez, Stephen Boyer, Nick Bowling

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Mar 6, 2018
Plantation! uses a sitcom sensibility to explore the case for reparations

The Lookingglass world premiere strives to be a very special episode.
- By Dan Jakes
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Plantation, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Lookingglass, Kevin Douglas, David Schwimmer, reparations, racism, slavery, sitcom, Janet Ulrich Brooks, Lily Mojekwu, Tamberla Perry, Ericka Ratcliff, Louise Lamson, Linsey Page Morton, Grace Smith, plantation, slapstick

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Aug 30, 2017
TimeLine Theatre’s The Audience is too admiring for the audience’s good

Peter Morgan's drama gives us a Queen Elizabeth II dull in her dutifulness.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, TimeLine Theatre, The Audience, Peter Morgan, Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher, Anthony Eden, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Harold Wilson, John Major, Suez Canal, Princess Diana, Nick Bowling, Janet Ulrich Brooks, Matt DeCaro

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 14, 2017
Ostensibly a comedy, Victory Gardens' Native Gardens terrifies

A poisonous dispute over two feet of dirt
- By Max Maller
- Tags: Theater Review, Victory Gardens, Native Gardens, Karen Zacarias, Marti Lyons, Paloma Nozicka, Patrick Clear, Janet Ulrich Brooks, Gabriel Ruiz

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Aug 31, 2016
TimeLine’s Bakersfield Mist is a true tale gone bad

Playwright Stephen Sachs paints a shallow picture in this art-world saga.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, TimeLine Theatre, Bakersfield Mist, Stephen Sachs, Mike Nussbaum, Janet Ulrich Brooks, Teri Horton, Jackson Pollock, Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?, Harry Moses, ArtNews, Artnet

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Feb 18, 2016
The Goodman's 2666: Epic, eerie, and ultimately unfathomable

Roberto Bolaño's sprawling novel becomes a phantasmagoric five-and-a-half-hour ride.
- By Zac Thompson
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Goodman Theatre, 2666, Roberto Bolaño, Robert Falls, Seth Bockely, Henry Godinez, Janet Ulrich Brooks, Ciudad Juárez, Eric Lynch, Alejandra Escalante, Walt Spangler, Shawn Sagady

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 1, 2015
Goodman Theatre helps redeem Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Christopher Durang's overrated Tony Award winner is a case of absurdism lite.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Goodman Theatre, Anton Chekhov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, Christopher Durang, Mary Beth Fisher, Ross Lehman, Jordan Brown, Janet Ulrich Brooks, Rebecca Buller

Blogs, Bleader Feb 26, 2014
Reader's Agenda Wed 2/26: The How and the Why, Metal Church, and Johnny Cash tribute night

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, February 26
- By Jillian Sandler
- Tags: Do This, Arts, The How and the Why, Janet Ulrich Brooks, Timeline Theatre, Metal Church, Reggie's Rock Club, Wrath, Screamking, Ironfinger, Johnny Cash, Untitled, Iron Horse, Adam Lee, Million Dollar Quartet.

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 12, 2014
Recommended
Biologists evolve in Timeline's The How and the Why

Sarah Treem's play survives on smarts and at least one great performance.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, The How and the Why, Timeline Theatre, Harvard, MIT, Sarah Treem, The How and the Why, Alan Bennett, The History Boys, Elizabeth Ledo, Keira Fromm, Janet Ulrich Brooks, The Grandmother Hypothesis, menopause, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Dec 7, 2012
A haiku for an undomesticated performance

An appreciation
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Janet Ulrich Brooks, Failure: A Love Story, Victory Gardens Theater

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Dec 5, 2012
Failure: A Love Story fails to get by on its charm

Philip Dawkins's new play needs more than a coy approach
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Victory Gardens Theater, Philip Dawkins, Chicago River, Eastland, Seth Bockley, Sarah Ruhl, coups de theatre, death, Guy Massey, Emjoy Gavino, Baize Buzan, Michael Salinas, Janet Ulrich Brooks

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Jun 13, 2012
Who's Next Up at Steppenwolf?

Fresh MFAs get a major-league showcase
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Next Up repertory, Northwestern University, Emily Campbell, Keith Reddin, Life and Limb, South Coast Repertory, Korean War, Jurgen Hooper, Grace Rex, Audrey Francis, Chris Froseth, Emily Schwend, South of Settling, Adam Goldstein, Keith Kupferer, Janet Ulrich Brooks, The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams, Laley Lippard, Leah Karpel, Kathy Scambiatterra

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Aug 25, 2011
Cold War frenemies

Refighting the Cold War in Timeline's A Walk in the Woods
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, A Walk in the Woods, Cold War, Timeline Theatre, Soviet Arts Experience, Windows on the War, USSR, Berlin Wall, Reagan, Nick Bowling, Janet Ulrich Brooks

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Nov 12, 2009
Isadora at Dinner

Can a play capture the essence of a dancer without any dancing?
- By Albert Williams
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Martin Sherman, When She Danced, Isadora Duncan, Timeline Theatre, Janet Ulrich Brooks, Mary Williamson, Jeannie Affelder, Mark Richard, Patrick Mulvey, Nick Bowling, Alejandro Cordoba, Sergei Esenin, Mary Desti, TimeLine Theatre Company

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Sep 10, 2009
Recommended
All My Sons

A review of the play by Arthur Miller, as performed by TimeLine Theatre
- By Albert Williams
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, TimeLine Theatre, All My Sons, Greenhouse Theater, Arthur Miller, Kimberly Senior, Cora Vander Broek, Janet Ulrich Brooks, World War II, Greenhouse Theater Center, Recommended

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Cheryl Strayed's advice column becomes a story circle in Nia Vardalos's adaptation.

Playwright Lucy Kirkwood's devastated world is nightmarishly familiar.

Her magnetic, mercurial performance anchors TimeLine's portrait of Maria Callas.

The Lookingglass world premiere strives to be a very special episode.

Peter Morgan's drama gives us a Queen Elizabeth II dull in her dutifulness.

A poisonous dispute over two feet of dirt

Playwright Stephen Sachs paints a shallow picture in this art-world saga.

Roberto Bolaño's sprawling novel becomes a phantasmagoric five-and-a-half-hour ride.

Christopher Durang's overrated Tony Award winner is a case of absurdism lite.

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, February 26

Sarah Treem's play survives on smarts and at least one great performance.

An appreciation

Philip Dawkins's new play needs more than a coy approach

Fresh MFAs get a major-league showcase

Refighting the Cold War in Timeline's A Walk in the Woods

Can a play capture the essence of a dancer without any dancing?

A review of the play by Arthur Miller, as performed by TimeLine Theatre

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