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- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 4, 2020
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Bug still gets under the skin
David Cromer's production for Steppenwolf taps into our current conspiracy-theory culture.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Dec 19, 2018
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The holiday miracle that gave Agency Theater Collective its Hellcab cab
The onstage taxi has a dramatic backstory.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Oct 15, 2018
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The Jeff Awards go gender neutral but still manage to favor men
"The issue of diversity in theater for awards does not start with the Jeff Awards. It ends at the Jeff Awards."
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 29, 2018
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The Post is a Happy Days for old journalists
Steven Spielberg's film is a reminder of how much fun journalism can be.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Jan 11, 2018
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Gift Theatre's Ten 2018, Filament Theatre's Forts!, and four more new stage shows
A festival of ten-minute plays and an interactive kids' show are among this week's best bets.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 15, 2017
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Azazel Jacobs’s The Lovers is the most underrated American movie of 2017
This comic quasi-fantasy achieves an emotional complexity that few other movies this year reached.
- Film, Movie Review Nov 29, 2017
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Greta Gerwig: A new voice in cinema, or an old voice just speaking up?
The writer-director of Lady Bird was hiding in plain sight.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 22, 2017
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Tracy Letts's The Minutes tells one dirty secret, then a dirtier one
Steppenwolf's latest is a profoundly pessimistic, compellingly strange dark comedy.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Apr 12, 2017
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Tracy Letts and Louis C.K.: Peas in a pod?
The bad-boy playwright is true to himself in Steppenwolf’s Linda Vista.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 7, 2017
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Tracy Letts’s rebellion against the Jeff Awards is suspiciously woke
What motivated the Steppenwolf playwright to give the Jeffs the cold shoulder?
- Film, Small Screen Mar 23, 2017
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CBS’s Superior Donuts serves up nothing but holes
The TV series based on Tracy Letts’s Steppenwolf stage comedy is a corn-syrup north-side minstrel show.
- Film, Movie Review Nov 23, 2016
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Was Christine Chubbuck a symbol of her times, our times—or neither?
Christine stars Rebecca Hall as the Florida journalist who shot herself on the air.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 18, 2016
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Swimming in the Chicago River might be possible in 15 years, and other news
Also, a new book on the history of Steppenwolf, from Gary Sinise to Tracy Letts.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Jun 8, 2016
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At Profiles Theatre the drama—and abuse—is real
For more than 20 years, actors and crew members stayed silent about mistreatment they suffered at the acclaimed storefront theater. Now they’re speaking up, hoping to protect workers in non-Equity theaters across the country.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Apr 14, 2016
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Tracy Letts and the case of the missing play
The best parts of Steppenwolf's Mary Page Marlowe may be the ones that aren't there.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 10, 2016
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Off-Loop institution Mary-Arrchie Theatre says good-bye with American Buffalo
Tony Adler reviews the production David Mamet didn't want reviewed.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 11, 2015
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The Hammer Trinity is a nine-hour fantasy epic that feels surprisingly short
A marathon staging from the House Theatre of Chicago is thrilling and thought-provoking—even if you don't like the genre.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 1, 2014
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Horrible Bosses 2 has a lot to say about degradation—and almost none of it's funny
The latest lowbrow comedy from Warner Bros. also has a surprising amount in common with the chilling indie drama Ghosts of Empire Prairie, which screens in Chicago next week.
- Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 25, 2014
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Best playwright
Tracy Letts
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 10, 2014
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An old-fashioned take on today's armed forces, and the rest of this week's movies
A roundup of new and notable movies playing in Chicago between January 10 and 16
- Film, Movie Critic's Choice Jan 8, 2014
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The home fires burn in August: Osage County
Meryl Streep is the cruel matriarch in this adaptation of the Tracy Letts play.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 20, 2013
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Appropriate consequences at Victory Gardens
Grandpa's secret comes out and the family melts down in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's new play.
- Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 20, 2013
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Best Playwright
Jon Steinhagen
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 19, 2013
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What ails Uncle Bob
Off-Loop vet Richard Cotovsky stars in Austin Pendleton's deeply flawed 1995 play about a washout who's dying of AIDS.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture May 23, 2013
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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.
