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- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 18, 2020
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Stick Fly takes flight at Writers
A wealthy Black family confronts secrets and internalized self-loathing in Lydia Diamond's acerbic drama.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Sep 25, 2019
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August Wilson's King Hedley II shows the ravages of the 1980s
Ron OJ Parson's production for Court Theatre hits with torrential force.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 8, 2019
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Too Heavy for Your Pocket weighs the cost of making a difference
A Black college student’s decision to join the Freedom Riders has unexpected consequences for his wife and friends.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 27, 2019
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Sweat shows how Trump's America came to be
Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer winner should be required viewing.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 13, 2018
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Will the Green Line Arts Center help turn the south side into ‘Florence during the Renaissance’?
The new theater in Washington Park is the first performing arts center to open on the south side in 40 years.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Sep 11, 2018
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Court Theatre’s Radio Golf makes a rousing conclusion to August Wilson’s ‘Century Cycle’
It's a nail-biting mayoral race—in Pittsburgh.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 10, 2018
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To Catch a Fish re-creates a government operation gone terribly wrong
Brett Neveu's play is not so much about the con, but the effect of the con.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Sep 20, 2017
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Five Guys Named Moe, The Funny Papers, and eight more new stage shows to see
A Louis Jordan tribune and a satire of the 21st-century news biz are among this week's best bets.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 19, 2017
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Beauty’s Daughter is more showcase than show
Wandachristine journeys through several decades and several lives without getting much of anywhere.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature May 10, 2017
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We're Gonna Die, the Comedy Dance Collective, and 11 more new stage shows
A rock concert/play by Young Jean Lee and an iO revue inspired by dance-class trauma are among this week's best bets.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 3, 2016
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East Texas Hot Links: Still awkward after all these years
A Writers Theatre revival doesn't solve old problems with Eugene Lee's play.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Oct 12, 2016
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Baudelaire in a Box: Unquenched, The Burials, and nine more new theater reviews
Theater Oobleck's stage translation of Les Fleurs du Mal continues.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Mar 22, 2016
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How Chicago theater artists are diversifying the city's stages
From the downtown theater district to neighborhood storefronts, efforts are underway to make Chicago theater less uniformly white, thin, able-bodied, and gender-conforming.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jan 28, 2015
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Where's the waiting in Court Theatre's Waiting for Godot?
This production of Samuel Beckett's absurdist tragicomedy never creates a palpable sense of anyone waiting for anything.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 22, 2013
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Reader's Agenda Sun 9/22: Chicago in White, World Music Festival, and The Mountaintop
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, September 22
