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Arts & Culture, Theater Review Apr 14, 2020
Theater of isolation

Online theater pieces, both new and old, remind us to connect.
- By Kerry Reid
- Tags: Theater Review, Black Button Eyes, Chase Hauser, Connective Theatre, coronavirus, COVID-19, Erich Heintzen, Fleabag, Masque of the Red Coronavirus, Philip Dawkins, Phoebe Waller-Bridges, Play(s) at Home, Sideshow, Streaming, The Happiest Place on Earth, Theater

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 3, 2016
East Texas Hot Links: Still awkward after all these years

A Writers Theatre revival doesn't solve old problems with Eugene Lee's play.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Writers Theatre, Ron OJ Parson, Eugene Lee, August Wilson, East Texas Hot Links, KKK, Jim Crow era, David Richards, New York Times, Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times, Alfred H. Wilson, Willie B., Kelvin Roston Jr., Tyla Abercrumbie, A.C. Smith, Antoine Pierre Whitfield, Philip Dawkins, Charm, Namir Smallwood, Onyx Theatre

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Oct 1, 2016
Cheers Live, Dog Night, The Happiest Place on Earth, and nine more new theater reviews

The latest Chicago stage shows range from the rawly emotional to the enjoyably ridiculous.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Cheers Live on Stage, Broadway in Chicago, Nich Radcliffe, Organic Theater Company, Joe Mantegna, Open Space Theater, Bleacher Bums, Northlight Theatre, Anthony Giardina, The City of Conversation, Lia D. Mortensen, Marti Lyons, Chicago theater, Pulse Theatre, The Colored Museum, George C. Wolfe, ETA Creative Arts Foundation, Aaron Mitchell Reese, Demetra Drayton, Ekia Thomas, Dead Children, The Side Project Theatre Company, Robert Tenges, Erik Wagner, Kirsten D'Aurelio, Adam Webster, Victoria Gilbert, Dog Night, Rabid Bat Theatricals, North Lakeshore Cultural Center, Gunder House, Philip Dawkins, The Happiest Place on Earth, Disneyland, Jonathan L. Green, Greenhouse Theater Center, Genesis Theatricals Productions, The People's Choice, Philip Pinkus, political satire, Baby Wants Candy, Game of Thrones, Thrones! A Musical Parody, Nick Druzbanski, Caitlyn Cerza, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, pH Theater, William Finn, Rachel Sheinkin, Erin Elisabeth Smith, Jason Geis, Filament Theatre, The Van Gogh Cafe, Community Tavern, Portage Park, Cynthia Rylant, Julia Ritchie, Visiting Edna, David Rabe, Steppenwolf Theatre, Anna D. Shapiro, Donterrio Johnson

Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 4, 2016
Ten best bets for fall theater

A satanic hand puppet, a live version of Cheers, and a Twelfth Night in Hindi are among this season’s highlights.
- Tags: Fall Preview, Mary Zimmerman, Doug Peck, Goodman Theatre, Candide, Leonard Bernstein, Wonderful Town, My Sister Eileen, Bri Sudia, Lauren Molina, Sophocles, Electra, the House of Atreus, Agamemnon, Iphigenia in Aulis, Nicholas Rudall, Court Theatre, Sandra Marquez, Michael Pogue, Kate Fry, Amiri Baraka, LeRoi Jones, Dutchman, American Blues Theater, Darren Canady, TRANSit, Shattered Globe Theatre, True West, Sam Shepard, Black Button Eyes Productions, Amour, Michel Legrand, Shakespeare 400 Chicago, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Shanghai Jingju Theatre, Peking opera, The Revenge of Prince Zi Dan, Hamlet, Company Theatre Mumbai, Piya Behrupiya, Twelfth Night, Eduardo Pavez Goye, Foro Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, The Complete Deaths, Spymonkey, The Happiest Place on Earth, Sideshow Theatre Company, Philip Dawkins, Scooby Don't, Hell in a Handbag Productions, David Cerda, Andrew Hinderaker, The Magic Play, Calamity West, Give It All Back, Idris Goodwin, How We Got On, Haven Theatre Company, Kristiana Rae Colón, Octagon, Jackalope Theatre, I Am My Own Wife, Doug Wright, About Face Theatre, Delia Kropp, Nothing Without a Company, [Trans]formation, the Living Canvas, Cheers Live on Stage, Amy Poehler, Broadway in Chicago, Mat Smart, Naperville, The Royal Society of Antarctica, the Gift Theatre, Jeff Award, Aguijón Theater, Romeo y Julieta, Sándor Menéndez, Gerardo Cárdenas, Hand to God, Robert Askin, Victory Gardens Theater, Alex Weisman, Gary Griffin, Seret Scott

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 Oct 29, 2015
Recommended
Northlight's appealing Charm shows the tyranny of an earlier age

Meet Mama Darleena, a sixtysomething black transsexual who's all about etiquette.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Philip Dawkins, Northlight Theatre, Steppenwolf Garage, Charm play, Armand Fields, B.J. Jones, Brittney Love Smith, Awate Serequeberhan, Elizabeth Ledo, Matthew Sherback, Julian Parker, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Fall Preview Sep 9, 2015
A transgender housemother schools her Boystown proteges in Northlight's Charm at Steppenwolf Garage
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Fall Arts, Fall Preview 2015, Charm play, Philip Dawkins, Northlight Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Garage

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 5, 2014
Miss Marx is done in by the History Channel treatment

The wit's missing from Strawdog Theatre's docudrama about the youngest daughter of Karl Marx.
- By Justin Hayford
- Tags: Theater Review, Miss Marx: Or the Involuntary Side Effects of Living, Philip Dawkins, Karl Marx, Eleanor Marx, Megan Shuchman, Strawdog Theatre Company, Dana Black, John Ferrick, History Channel, A Doll's House, Matt Holzfeind, Benjamin Sprunger

Blogs, Bleader Jul 17, 2013
Reader's Agenda Wed 7/17: VisionFest5: Johnny 5 Is Alive, a David Lynch dance tribute, and Future Bible Heroes

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, July 17
- By Tosten Burks
- Tags: Do This, Arts, LiveWire Chicago Theatre, VisionFest5: Johnny 5 Is Alive, Philip Dawkins, The Homosexuals, Ike Holter. Hit the Wall, Bekah Brunstetter, Take Her to See the Maco Lights, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, David Lynch, Martyrs', Future Bible Heroes, Stephen Merritt, Magnetic Fields, Partygoing, Merge, Tal Rosenberg, 69 Love Songs, The Luxury Liners

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Sidebar Jun 13, 2013
Nearly 60 plays in 3,600 seconds (give or take)

Victory Gardens Biograph Theater hosts the third annual One Minute Play Festival.
- By Chelsea Hohn
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, One-Minute Play Festival, Dominic D'Andrea, Neo-Futurists, Bilal Dardai, Laura Jacqmin, Dental Society Midwestern Meeting, New Dramatists, Carlos Murillo, Hell in a Handbag Productions, David Cerda, Scott Barsotti, Usman Ally, Mary Zimmerman, The Jungle Book, Philip Dawkins, Seth Bockley, the Homosexuals, Failure: A Love Story, Tanya Saracho, El Nogalar, Our Lady of the Underpass

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

Columns & Opinion, On Culture Dec 5, 2012
At Victory Gardens, a bitter uprooting

The city's playwright-driven theater weeds out the old
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: On Culture, Dennis Zacek, Chay Yew, playwright-centered theater, Sandy Shinner, theater, Actors' Equity, Douglas Post, playwrights' ensemble, Marcelle McVay, Tanya Saracho, Philip Dawkins, Charles Smith, Victory Gardens Theater

Arts & Culture, Culture Vultures Aug 18, 2011
Culture Vultures: Agitprop, The Girl With Brown Fur, and the plays of Larry Kramer

In-the-know Chicagoans tell the Reader what they're watching, reading, and seeing
- By Asher Klein
- Tags: Culture Vultures, Alex Shakar, Stacey Levine, Philip Dawkins, The Homosexuals, Kathleen Kuiper, Encyclopedia Brittanica, Luminarium, Agitprop, Larry Kramer, The Normal Heart, The Destiny of Me

News & Politics, Feature Jul 23, 2009
Pass the Helmet: Bringing Opera to a Bar, Church, or Cabaret Near You

A new crop of scrappy troupes is making opera accessible--for both audiences and aspiring singers.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Feature, opera, Chicago, Opera on Tap, Da Corneto, Chicago Opera Vanguard, Chicago Folks Operetta, Erin Thompson, Lyric Opera, Chicago Opera Theatre, Cloclo, No Exit, Faust, Kelli Finn, Alvaro Ramirez, Alfred Glasser, Eric Reda, Philip Dawkins, Greek, Alison Kelly, Gerald Frantzen, Hersh Glagov, Angelo's, Northern Illinois Children's Choir

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Theater of isolation

Online theater pieces, both new and old, remind us to connect.

East Texas Hot Links: Still awkward after all these years

A Writers Theatre revival doesn't solve old problems with Eugene Lee's play.

Cheers Live, Dog Night, The Happiest Place on Earth, and nine more new theater reviews

The latest Chicago stage shows range from the rawly emotional to the enjoyably ridiculous.

Ten best bets for fall theater

A satanic hand puppet, a live version of Cheers, and a Twelfth Night in Hindi are among this season’s highlights.

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
Northlight's appealing Charm shows the tyranny of an earlier age

Meet Mama Darleena, a sixtysomething black transsexual who's all about etiquette.

A transgender housemother schools her Boystown proteges in Northlight's Charm at Steppenwolf Garage

Miss Marx is done in by the History Channel treatment

The wit's missing from Strawdog Theatre's docudrama about the youngest daughter of Karl Marx.

Reader's Agenda Wed 7/17: VisionFest5: Johnny 5 Is Alive, a David Lynch dance tribute, and Future Bible Heroes

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, July 17

Nearly 60 plays in 3,600 seconds (give or take)

Victory Gardens Biograph Theater hosts the third annual One Minute Play Festival.

Failure: A Love Story fails to get by on its charm

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

At Victory Gardens, a bitter uprooting

The city's playwright-driven theater weeds out the old

Culture Vultures: Agitprop, The Girl With Brown Fur, and the plays of Larry Kramer

In-the-know Chicagoans tell the Reader what they're watching, reading, and seeing

Pass the Helmet: Bringing Opera to a Bar, Church, or Cabaret Near You

A new crop of scrappy troupes is making opera accessible--for both audiences and aspiring singers.

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Online theater pieces, both new and old, remind us to connect.

A Writers Theatre revival doesn't solve old problems with Eugene Lee's play.

The latest Chicago stage shows range from the rawly emotional to the enjoyably ridiculous.

A satanic hand puppet, a live version of Cheers, and a Twelfth Night in Hindi are among this season’s highlights.

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

Meet Mama Darleena, a sixtysomething black transsexual who's all about etiquette.

The wit's missing from Strawdog Theatre's docudrama about the youngest daughter of Karl Marx.

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, July 17

Victory Gardens Biograph Theater hosts the third annual One Minute Play Festival.

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

The city's playwright-driven theater weeds out the old

In-the-know Chicagoans tell the Reader what they're watching, reading, and seeing

A new crop of scrappy troupes is making opera accessible--for both audiences and aspiring singers.

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