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Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 17, 2019
Recommended
The second coming of True West

Jon Michael Hill and Namir Smallwood breathe fire into Steppenwolf’s revival.
- By Catey Sullivan
- Tags: Theater Review, Steppenwolf Theatre, Sam Shepard, True West, Randall Arney, Francis Guinan, Jon Michael Hill, Namir Smallwood, Jacqueline Williams, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 23, 2018
Writers Theatre's Buried Child sacrifices Sam Shepard's ghoulish humor for tragedy

But the performances are stellar in Kimberly Senior's monumental staging.
- By Justin Hayford
- Tags: Theater Review, Writers Theatre, Buried Child, Sam Shepard, Kimberly Senior, Larry Yando, Mark L. Montgomery, Eugene O'Neill

Blogs, Bleader Mar 16, 2018
This week on FilmStruck: Deep in the heart of Texas

FilmStruck finds more than western films deep in the heart of Texas.
- By Patrick Friel
- Tags: Film, Foreign, On Video, Television, The Internet, Texas, FilmStruck, Lone Star, Stetsons, Longhorn cattle, John Wayne, Giant, Edna Ferber, George Stevens, A Place in the Sun, Boris Levin, Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Dave Kehr, The Last Picture Show, Peter Bogdanovich, New Wave, Howard Hawks, Red River, Cahiers du Cinema, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Oscar, Robert Surtees, Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Ellen Burstyn, Cybill Shepherd, Eileen Brennan, Clu Gulager, Sam Bottoms, Paris Texas, Wim Wenders, Sam Shepard, Harry Dean Stanton, Robby Müller, Hammett, John Ford, Michelangelo Antonioni, Hunter Carson, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clement, Ry Cooder, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Blood Simple, M. Emmet Walsh, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, James M. Cain, Slacker, Richard Linklater, Austin Texas, Waking Life, The Phantom of Liberty, Playtime

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Oct 18, 2017
Bachelorette, Hard Times, and 12 more stage shows to see now

A "ferocious ensemble effort" and a pitch-perfect revival are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Anything and Always . . ., Nic Wehrwein, Coffee & Whiskey Productions, Michelle Alejandra Limon, Wesley James, Mary Iris Loncto, Spencer Davis, Michael Perlman, Bachelorette, At the Table, Leslye Headland, Carmen Molina, Level 11 Theatre, Billy Elliott, Porchlight Music Theatre, Brenda Didier, Lincoln Seymour, Jacob Kaiser, Lee Hall, Elton John, Sean Fortunato, Shanésia Davis, Burf of a Nation, Carla Stillwell, Leonard House, MPAACT, Donald Trump, World War III, Fool for Love, Zeljko Djukic, Facility Theatre, Sam Shepard, Stephen J. Bottoms, Wim Wenders, Paris, Texas, Endgame, Good Night, Fred Rogers, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Kadin McGreevy, Daniel Striped Tiger, The Devil's Disciple, George Bernard Shaw, ShawChicago, Ruth Page Center for the Arts, Doug MacKechnie, Gary Alexander, Barbara Zahora, Robert Scogin, Lookingglass Theatre, Hard Times, Charles Dickens, Coketown, the Spanish Web, Audrey Anderson, Cordelia Dewdney, Mara Blumenfeld, Andre Pluess, Dan Ostling, Occidental Express, Romania, Istvan Szabo K, Trap Door Theatre, Punk, The New Colony, Michael Allen Harris, Diana Raiselis, Katrina Dion, Huggable Riot, Meaghan Morris, Nathaniel Strain, The Skin of Our Teeth, Thornton Wilder, Krissy Vanderwarker, Remy Bumppo Theatre, Kelly O'Sullivan, First Floor Theater, Two Mile Hollow, Leah Nanako Winkler, Arnel Sancianco, Hutch Pimentel

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Sep 14, 2016
Ubu the King, True West, and nine more new theater reviews

Alfred Jarry's absurdist satire and a minor masterpiece by Sam Shepard are among this week's highlights.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, The House Theatre of Chicago, A Comedical Tragedy for Mister Punch, Kara Silverman, Echaka Agba, Jesse Mooney-Bullock, Izumi Inaba, Shade Murray, Kevin O'Donnell, Adrian Danzig, Punch and Judy, Dylan's Apartment, iO Theater, Dylan Doetsch, Mister Rogers, Natalie Carneal, Girl Jesus: Resurrected and Back to School!, Public House Theatre, Jessica Wilcox, John Waters, Edith Massey, I Do Today, Carin Silkaitis, Sarah Myers, I Know What You Sang Last Summer, Abba, Mamma Mia!, Amy Montgomery, Sara Sevigny, Jennifer Knox, Jim Corti, Paramount Theatre, The Memory Tour, Pivot Arts, Julieanne Ehre, Tanya Palmer, Scarcity, Red Twist Theatre, Lucy Thurber, Brendan Meyer, Ada Grey, Jacqueline Grandt, Cody Estle, Mark Pracht, Johnny Garcia, Smokey Joe's Cafe, Leiber and Stoller, Marcia Milgrom Dodge, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Drury Lane Theatre, Keirsten Hodgens, Sam Shepard, True West, Shattered Globe Theatre, James Yost, Christina Gordon, Kevin Viol, Joseph Wiens, Ubu the King, Alfred Jarry, Rough House Theater, Mike Oleon, Grace Needlman, Trump, Pere Ubu

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 Jun 8, 2016
Steppenwolf's Constellations and Voice Lessons, and 13 more new stage shows

An endless meet-cute and an off-key farce are among this week's notable plays.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Caught, Sideshow Theatre Company, Christopher Chen, Seth Bockley, Ben Chang, Helen Young, Victory Gardens Theater, Cocksucker, The Annoyance Theatre, The Box, Jeff Blim, Jon Matteson, Eric Schinzer, Steppenwolf Theatre, Constellations, Jon Michael Hill, Jessie Fisher, Nick Payne, Jonathan Berry, Slimtack Theatre Company, Cowboy Mouth, Sam Shepard, Patti Smith, The Cure, Walkabout Theater Company, Emma Stanton, Dana Murphy, Nigel Brown, Chicago Cultural Center, Sidney R. Yates Gallery, The Good Doctor, Neil Simon, Anton Chekhov, Organic Theater Company, Josh Anderson, Sara Copeland, Jim Heatherly, Cuckoo's Theater Project, Carlo Gozzi, The Green Bird, commedia dell'arte, The Love of Three Oranges, Amber Lee Olivier, Hillary DePiano, Kegan Witzki, My Fair Lady, Light Opera Works, Lerner and Loewe, Elizabeth Telford, Roger Bingaman, Rudy Hogenmiller, Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen, Robert Kauzlaric, Lifeline Theatre, George Howe, Stephanie Stocksill, Will Burdin, Out of the Blue, Vladimir Zaytsev, Sherlock Holmes, Portage Park, Filament Theatre Company, Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Portage Park, Voice Lessons, Laurie Metcalf, French Stewart, The Program, Jamie Brew, Clickhole, The Onion, Sameena Mustafa, Anthony Bourdain, Joe Schermoly, First Floor Theater, World Builders, Johnna Adams, Carmen Molina, Andrew Cutler, Jesse Roth, American Theater Company, PJ Papparelli, Xanadu, Lilli-Anne Brown, Landree Fleming, Arnel Sancianco, Jim DeSelm, Olivia Newton-John

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Mar 22, 2016
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.
- By Zac Thompson
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, diversity, Chicago theater, Hamlet, Equity, Hamilton, True West, Chicago Inclusion Project, Emjoy Gavino, Court Theatre, Wait Until Dark, Audrey Hepburn, Harmony France, Sam Shepard, The Matchmaker, Hello, Dolly!, Ron OJ Parson, Writers Theatre, TimeLine Theatre, Horace Vandergelder, Allen Gilmore, Anita Hollander, Henry Wishcamper, Eric Garner, The Hairy Ape, Eugene O’Neill, Chay Yew, Richard III, Hillary and Clinton, Gift Theatre, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Sydney Germaine, Anita Hollander, Richard III, Year of the King, Antony Sher, Michael Patrick Thornton, Lucas Hnath

Blogs, Bleader Jun 6, 2014
Video
Tom Cruise, Sam Shepard, John Carpenter, 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, Cold in July, Ben Sachs, Sam Shepard, John Carpenter, Tom Cruise, Edge of Tomorrow, Words and Pictures, Clive Owen, Juliette Binoche, George Cukor, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Across the River, Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas, Mads Mikkelson, Innocent Sorcerers, Andrzej Wajda, Maleficent, Angelina Jolie, Sleeping Beauty, Return to Homs, Ernst Lubitsch, Cluny Brown, University of Chicago Doc Films, Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Music Box, Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, Singin’ in the Rain, Joe Pytka, Space Jam, William A. Wellman, Wild Boys of the Road, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, David Gordon Green, Joe Nicolas Cage, Tivoli Des Plaines, After Hours Film Society, Lars von Trier, Nymphomaniac, Gene Siskel Film Center, Particle Fever, Facets Cinematheque, Hairy Who & the Chicago Imagists, Museum of Contemporary Art, movies, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 30, 2014
Video
Krzysztof Zanussi, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and the rest of this week's hard-to-spell screenings

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Opening, Film, Gene Siskel Film Center, Martin Scorsese, Krzysztof Zanussi, Camouflage Zanussi, The Constant Factor, Ben Sachs, The Dance of Reality, Alejandro Jodorowsky, El Topo, The Holy Mountain, Heroes for Sale, William A. Wellman, The Public Enemy, Nothing Sacred, American Jesus, Black Box, Stephen Cone, The Wise Kids, Chinese Puzzle, Cedric Klpaisch, When the Cat's Away, Cold in July, Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard, Don Johnson, Just a Sigh, Emmanuelle Devos, Gabriel Byrne, Manakamana, Leviathan movie, A Million Ways to Die in the West, Family Guy, Seth MacFarlane, The Supreme Price, M.K.O. Abiola, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Michael Snow, *Corpus Callosum, University of Chicago Doc Films, Charles Chaplin, The Great Dictator, Music Box Chicago, Chicago Opera Theater, Leo McCarey, Make Way for Tomorrow, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Ernst Lubitsch, To Be or Not to Be, Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Up Pixar, Walter Hill, The Warriors, movies, Video

Film, Movie Critic's Choice Jan 8, 2014
Recommended Video
The home fires burn in August: Osage County

Meryl Streep is the cruel matriarch in this adaptation of the Tracy Letts play.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Movie Critic's Choice, August: Osage County, John WellsJulia Roberts, Meryl Streep, Tracy Letts, William Friedkin, Bug, The Company Men, Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Chris Cooper, Julianne Nicholson, Sam Shepard, Dermot Mulroney, Juliette Lewis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Oklahoma, Pulitzer Prize, Recommended, Video

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Aug 14, 2013
Playing Family Feud at Steppenwolf's First Look

They always hurt the ones they love in theater's three-play repertory.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, First Look Repertory of New Work, Steppenwolf Theatre, The Pyramid Challenge, Edith Freni, Aaron Carter, Janine Nabers, Buena Vista, Buena Vista, Colorado, Florida, Karen Vaccaro, Tim Hopper, Cabbage Patch, Eugene Ionesco, The Faerie Queene, Sam Shepard, The Gospel of Franklin, Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie, Gavin Lawrence, Robert O'Hara, The Gospel of Franklin, Annie Bosh Is Missing, William Boles, Jennifer Avery

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jul 17, 2013
Friends recall old crimes in Simpatico

Michael Shannon stars in a death struggle disguised as a comedy.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Honore de Balzac, Simpatico, Sam Shepard, southern California, Kentucky, bluegrass, Rancho Cucamonga, California, Guy Van Swearingen, A Red Orchid Theatre, Geography of a Horse Dreamer, D.H. Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner, Horse Dreamer, Elmore Leonard, Get Shorty, the Bible, Genesis, Jacob, Esau, True West, Michael Shannon, Kate Arrington, Belleville, Boardwalk Empire, Premium Rush, Doug Vickers, Jennifer Engstrom

Columns & Opinion, On Culture May 23, 2013
Richard Cotovsky's life on the fringe, rewarded

After four decades in Chicago theater, the artistic director of Mary-Arrchie gets a special nod from the Jeff Awards.
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Deanna Isaacs on Culture, theater, Mary-Arrchie Theatre, JoAnn DeAngelo, Sam Shepard, James Venturini, Kerry Reid, Abbie Hoffman Died for Our Sins, Splinter Group, Richard Cotovsky, Tracy Letts, Superior Donuts, Carlo Lorenzo Garcia, Hans Fleischmann, Austin Pendleton, Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co., Southern Illinois University, University of Illinois at Chicago, UIC, Wisdom Bridge, Theater on the Lake, Columbia College, Blackbird Theater, Americana Theater, Senn High School, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Lanford Wilson, David Cromer, Niles North High School, Jeff Awards, Non-Equity Jeff Awards, Mary-Arrchie Theatre, Angel Island, David Mamet, American Buffalo, William H. Macy, J.J. Johnston, Mike Nussbaum, Jennifer Markowitz

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Apr 25, 2012
Devices obvious and mechanical

Even Profiles Theatre can't find depth in Neil LaBute's In a Forest, Dark and Deep
- By Justin Hayford
- Tags: Theater Review, Neil Labute, Profiles Theatre, mystery, Agatha Christie, Joe Jahraus, Sam Shepard, siblings, Darrell Cox, Natasha Lowe

Blogs, Bleader Oct 13, 2011
Video
This Week's Movie Action

New reviews and notable screenings in this week's issue.
- By J.R. Jones
- Tags: Film, Jonathan Rosenbaum, List-o-Mania, Cinema Borealis, Pedro Costa, Change Nothing, Chicago International Film Festival, Alexander Payne, Election movie, About Schmidt, Sideways movie, Mia Hansen-Love, Father of My Children movie, Lynne Ramsay, Ratcatcher movie, Movern Callar, Beloved Sky, From No. 37, Gene Siskel Film Center, Festival of Films From Iran, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, Blackthorn movie, Butch Cassidy, Sam Shepard, Footloose movie, Happy Happy, Limelight movie, Peter Gatien, Lowlands movie, Johannes Vermeer, Peter Thompson, Shut Up Little Man!, Jan Svankmajer, Alice movie, Comfort Station, Tod Browning, Dracula, University of Chicago Doc Films, John Carpenter, Halloween movie, Valery Todorovsky, Hipsters movie, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, Jacques Tourneur, I Walked With a Zombie, Facets Night School, Kelly Reichardt, Meek's Cutoff, Mark Robson, The Seventh Victim, Kimberly Peirce, Boys Don't Cry, Stop-Loss movie, Music Box, The Film That Changed My Life, The Godfather, Music Box Massacre, Waxworks, Herschell Gordon Lewis, The Wizard of Gore, Burn Witch Burn, Hour of the Wolf, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Poltergeist, film festivals, movies, Video

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Oct 14, 2010
Chicago Humanities Festival

This year's fest, themed "The Body," kicks off Sunday, October 24.
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Lit Sidebar, Chicago Humanities Festival, University of Chicago, The Body, Thomas Lynch, Leslie Marmon Silko, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Paul Kahan, Aleksandar Hemon, Sam Shepard, E.O. Wilson, Rebecca Skloot, Laura Kipnis

Blogs, Bleader Sep 20, 2010
2010 Chicago Humanities Festival Tix Go on Sale Today
- By Jerome Ludwig
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Books, Chicago Humanities Festival, Savage Love, Savage Lovecast, Dan Savage, Bill Savage, Sam Shepard, Chicago Tribune Literary Prize, Laura Kipnis, How to Become a Scandal: Adventures in Bad Behavior, Alpana Singh, Mindy Segal, Paul Kahan

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Sep 16, 2010
Fall Arts Guide 2010: Sam Shepard

Best Bet: Lit
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Lit Sidebar, Sam Shepard, Buried Child, The Slow and Painful Death of Sam Shepard, True West, Jeff Dorchen, Theater Oobleck, Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago Tribune Literary Prize, Symphony Center

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Apr 29, 2010
Poor Finish

Welcome to Arroyo's, Kristoffer Diaz's first play, dazzles and then dies.
- By Justin Hayford
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Welcome to Arroyo's, American Theater Company, Kristoffer Diaz, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, 2010 Pulitzer finalist, metatheatrical, Jaime Castaneda, Sam Shepard, ATC, PJ Paparelli, Chad Deity

Blogs, Bleader Oct 20, 2009
Video
Kerouac documentary tonight only

The new documentary "One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur" screens Tuesday 10/20 at Webster Place.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Film, Music, Books, Jack Kerouac, Beat, Big Sur, On the Road, One Fast Move or I'm Gone, Dharma Bums, Curt Worden, Jay Farrar, Ben Gibbard, Patti Smith, Tom Waits, Sam Shepard, Robert Hunter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Ventimiglia, Sopranos, Video

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Apr 30, 1987
Shepard's Hope
- By Anthony Adler
- Tags: Performing Arts Review, Sam Shepard, A Lie of the Mind

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