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Arts & Culture, Theater Review Apr 25, 2019
The Gamergate-inspired drama Non-Player Character doesn't bother to challenge audience assumptions

It provides all the answers to the central dilemma that you'd expect.
- By Justin Hayford
- Tags: Theater Review, Non-Player Character, Red Theater, Walt McGough, Gamergate, Alice Wu, Matthew Schnitker, Athenaeum Theatre

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 8, 2018
A failed interrogation into the idea of control, An Oak Tree is instead a benevolent dictatorship

The whole thing unintentionally channels the terrors of the Twilight Zone.
- By Sheri Flanders
- Tags: Theater Review, An Oak Tree, Red Theater, Athenaeum Theatre, Cruz Gonzalez-Citadel, Gage Wallace, Carmina Burana, Jeremy Aluma, Twilight Zone

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 12, 2018
The new Holodomor drama Sickle isn't sharp enough to draw much blood

The tragic Ukrainian famine of the early 1930s remains an abstraction in Abbey Fenbert's new play.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Sickle, Red Theater, Abbey Fenbert, Ukraine, USSR, Holodomor, Elizabeth Lovelady

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Dec 13, 2017
Beautiful, Bad Hombres, and nine more holiday stage shows to see

An Equity touring production of the Carole King musical and an evening of Latinx sketch comedy are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Altar Boyz, Sawyer Smith, Courtney Crouse, Gary Adler, Michael Patrick Walker, KevinDel Aquila, Marc J. Kessler, Ken Davenport, Theo Ubique, musical theater, Bad Hombres, Rich Alfonso, Miguel Lepe, sketch comedy, Latino comics, Mario, Damian Anaya, Cesar Jaime, Jose Molina, Spic & Tan, Chris Farley Cabaret, iO Theater, Beautiful, Carole King, Broadway musical, bio-musical, the Shirelles, Bobby Vee, Gerry Goffin, Brill Building, Sarah Bockel, Marc Bruni, The Character Assassination of Donald Trump, Eric Coleman, Jamie Quinones, Dave Kwitkowski, Jenny Miller, Meir Steinberg, Mercury Theater, The Christmas Schooner, holiday musical, Julie Shannon, John Reeger, L. Walter Stearns, Gingerbread Grindhouse, Ghostlight Ensemble, Maria Burnham, The Nutcracker, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Tatum Hunter, Sean Harklerode, Chad Wise, Red Theater, Little Red Cyrano, Cyrano de Bergerac, Aaron Sawyer, Hell in a Handbag Productions, David Cerda, Rudolph the Red-Hosed Reindeer, Michael Jack Hampton, Terry McCarthy, Graham Thomas Heacock, Kristogger Bottrall, E.D.G.E. Theatre, Steampunk Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, Industrial Revolution, Jared McDaris, Trap Door Theatre, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, They, Polish avant-garde, Beata Pilch, Mary-Kate Arnold, Carl Wisniewski, ’Twas the Night Before Christmas, ’Twas the Fight Before Christmas, Public House Theatre, Robert Frosty

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Aug 23, 2017
There's no audience takedown in The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity

Like Hamilton, Kristoffer Diaz's Pulitzer nominee softens its skewering.
- By Justin Hayford
- Tags: Theater Review, Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, Kristoffer Diaz, Red Theater, Jeremy Aluma, pro wrestling, otherization

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Apr 26, 2017
Aladdin, Marry Me a Little, and ten more stage shows to see now

A top-notch touring Broadway show and an intimate Sondheim concept revue are among this week's notable new productions.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Aladdin, Disney's Aladdin, Jonathan Weir, Reggie de Leon, Anthony Murphy, Bob Crowley, Alan Menken, Dundee: A Hip-Hopera, Gabe Caruso, Force Continuum, Kia Corthron, The Wolf at the End of the Block, Ike Holter, Michael Aaron Pogue, Hookman, Vanessa Stalling, Lauren Yee, Steep Theatre, Marry Me a Little, Porchlight Music Theatre, Austin Cook, Bethany Thomas, Stephen Sondheim, Company, Follies, Into the Woods, Saturday Night, Evening Primrose, Jess McLeod, Never the Milk & Honey, MPAACT, Carla Stillwell, Renee Lockett, Chicago Opera Theater, Philip Glass, The Perfect American, Walt Disney, Andreas MItisek, Der König von Amerika, Rudolph Wurlitzer, Kevin Newbury, Justin Ryan, Karl Knapp, Scott Ramsay, Apollo Chorus, Prince Max's Trewly Awful Trip to the Desolat Interior, Red Theater, Ellen Struve, Maximilian, Heather Riordan, Charlee Cotton, the Mandan, the Hidatsa, Karl Bodmer, Queen, Victory Gardens Theater, Madhuri Shekar, Joanie Schultz, Priya Mohanty, Darci Nalepa, Adam Poss, The New Colony, Scapegoat, Connor McNamara, Kristina Valada-Viers, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Shakespeare in Love, Lee Hall, Romeo and Juliet, Rachel Rockwell, Luigi Sottile, Nathaniel Braga, Linda Reiter, The Other Theatre Company, Threesome, Yussef El Guindi, Suzan Faycurry, Mike Tepeli, Demetrios Troy, Jason Gerace, Darren Jones

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, Feature Apr 27, 2016
Bullets Over Broadway, The Producers, MPAACT's Feral, and nine more new theater reviews

Two hit musical comedies and a drama examining the Chicago Police Department's "systemic racism" are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Feature, Bullets Over Broadway, Woody Allen, PrivateBank Theatre, Susan Stroman, Michael Williams, Even Longer and Farther Away, Appalachian Trail, Chelsea Marcantel, Thrisa Hodits, The New Colony, Byhalia, Mississippi, Deanna Reed-Foster, Evita, Eva Perón, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, Che Guevara, Feral, Shepsu Aakhu, MPAACT, Black Lives Matter, Chicago Police Department, police shootings, Carla Stillwell, Victoria Allen, George C. Stalling, In the Heat of the Night, John Ball, Matt Pelfrey, Shattered Globe Theatre, Michael Stanfill, Theater Wit, Teatro Vista, In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez, Rafael Trujillo, Maribal sisters, Ricardo Guitierrez, Uriel Gomez, Caridad Svich, Liviu Pasare, Victory Gardens Theater, The Lion in Winter, James Goldman, Katharine Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitane, Brian Pastor, Promethean Theatre Ensemble, Athenaeum Theatre, Brian Parry, Elaine Carlson, Empire, Lucious and Cookie Lyon, Polarity Ensemble Theatre, Greenhouse Theater Center, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare, Keith Cavanaugh, Laura Sturm, Ann Keen, The Producers, Mercury Theater, L. Walter Stearns, Mel Brooks, Bill Larkin, Matt Crowle, Allison Sill, ABLA Productions, A Splintered Soul, Alan Lester Brooks, Keira Fromm, Holocaust survivors, Red Theater, Redtwist Theatre, Benjamin Brand, Aaron Sawyer, Gage Wallace, Kevin V. Smith, cannibalism, Two Rooms, Honest Theatre, Fury Theatre, Lee Blessing, Chad Gilliland, hostage crisis

Blogs, Bleader Jan 15, 2016
Sketchbook Festival's final year, Run the Jewels at the MCA, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

RhinoFest, The Year of the Rooster, and other weekend happenings in Chicago from January 15-17.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Sketchbook Festival, Chopin Theatre, The Year of the Rooster, Red Theater, Few Were Happy With Their Condition, Gallery 400, Run the Jewels, Museum of Contemporary Art, RhinoFest, Prop Thtr, Laugh Your Face Off, Laugh Factory

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Jan 14, 2016
Brontë, Desert Cool, and ten more theatrical shows to see now
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Ask Your Doctor: A Pharmaceutical Musical, the Annoyance Theatre, Eleni Sauvageu, Baby Wine, Bible Bingo: An Act of Charity in Two Acts, Vicki Quade, Late Night Catechism, Kathleen Puls Andrade, Brontë, Polly Teale, Brontë sisters, The Day That Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Nearly Killed Me: My Rally to Restore Sanity, Angie McMahon, Desert Cool, The Public House Theatre, Caleb Fullen, Mark Denny, John O'Toole, Double Text, Olivia Bagan, For Real, America?, Sarah Dell’Amico, Rashida Olayiwola, The Miracle Walker: A Tale of Two Bushes, Jeb Bush, George W. Bush, Donald Trump, Justin Hamby, Dylan Schaefer, Jenna Steege, David Schwartbaum, Ten Dollar House, Pride Films & Plays, Rick Kinnebrew, Martha Meyer, The Year of the Rooster, Red Theater, Eric Dufault, Carrie Lee Patterson, Jeff Kurysz, Young Playwrights Festival, Pegasus Theatre Chicago, Myka Buc, Brian Hayes, Keauna Pierce

Blogs, Bleader Nov 5, 2015
Red Theater uses sign language to revamp Romeo and Juliet

Aaron Sawyer sheds light on deaf culture in his latest production.
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Theater, Things I Love, Romeo and Juliet, Red Theater, Aaron Sawyer, deaf culture, sign language, Martha's Vineyard, ASL

Blogs, Bleader Apr 1, 2013
Red Theater tackles obscenity, nudity, honesty, and poop in a new doc

The Fourth Wall: A Red Theater Documentary screens twice in Chicago, starting tonight.
- By Justin Hayford
- Tags: Do This, Theater, Film, Red Theater, Stage 773, chicago, theater

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Mar 26, 2013
Recommended
The triumph of Red Hamlet

Red Theater's radical Shakespeare revision is an exercise in instability.
- By Justin Hayford
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Shakespeare, Red Theater, Red Hamlet, Aaron Sawyer, Robert Wilson, Stage 773, Recommended

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The Gamergate-inspired drama Non-Player Character doesn't bother to challenge audience assumptions

It provides all the answers to the central dilemma that you'd expect.

A failed interrogation into the idea of control, An Oak Tree is instead a benevolent dictatorship

The whole thing unintentionally channels the terrors of the Twilight Zone.

The new Holodomor drama Sickle isn't sharp enough to draw much blood

The tragic Ukrainian famine of the early 1930s remains an abstraction in Abbey Fenbert's new play.

Beautiful, Bad Hombres, and nine more holiday stage shows to see

An Equity touring production of the Carole King musical and an evening of Latinx sketch comedy are among this week's best bets.

There's no audience takedown in The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity

Like Hamilton, Kristoffer Diaz's Pulitzer nominee softens its skewering.

Aladdin, Marry Me a Little, and ten more stage shows to see now

A top-notch touring Broadway show and an intimate Sondheim concept revue are among this week's notable new productions.

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.

Bullets Over Broadway, The Producers, MPAACT's Feral, and nine more new theater reviews

Two hit musical comedies and a drama examining the Chicago Police Department's "systemic racism" are among this week's best bets.

Sketchbook Festival's final year, Run the Jewels at the MCA, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

RhinoFest, The Year of the Rooster, and other weekend happenings in Chicago from January 15-17.

Brontë, Desert Cool, and ten more theatrical shows to see now

Red Theater uses sign language to revamp Romeo and Juliet

Aaron Sawyer sheds light on deaf culture in his latest production.

Red Theater tackles obscenity, nudity, honesty, and poop in a new doc

The Fourth Wall: A Red Theater Documentary screens twice in Chicago, starting tonight.

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The triumph of Red Hamlet

Red Theater's radical Shakespeare revision is an exercise in instability.

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It provides all the answers to the central dilemma that you'd expect.

The whole thing unintentionally channels the terrors of the Twilight Zone.

The tragic Ukrainian famine of the early 1930s remains an abstraction in Abbey Fenbert's new play.

An Equity touring production of the Carole King musical and an evening of Latinx sketch comedy are among this week's best bets.

Like Hamilton, Kristoffer Diaz's Pulitzer nominee softens its skewering.

A top-notch touring Broadway show and an intimate Sondheim concept revue are among this week's notable new productions.

This week's stage highlights include three losers who (hopefully) make good and four 19th-century fictional heroines battling their would-be betrotheds.

Two hit musical comedies and a drama examining the Chicago Police Department's "systemic racism" are among this week's best bets.

RhinoFest, The Year of the Rooster, and other weekend happenings in Chicago from January 15-17.

Aaron Sawyer sheds light on deaf culture in his latest production.

The Fourth Wall: A Red Theater Documentary screens twice in Chicago, starting tonight.

Red Theater's radical Shakespeare revision is an exercise in instability.

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