Cheryl L. West’s Pullman Porter Blues spends too much time explaining and not enough time dramatizing.
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Joan Allen can’t find her way home
Joan Allen returns to Steppenwolf in a literary construct called The Wheel.
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The Old Man and the Old Moon and the New Innocence
Pigpen Theatre Company’s musical fable The Old Man and the Old Moon drowns in charm.
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Still climbing toward The Mountaintop
In Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop, Martin Luther King Jr. faces his own Gethsemane.
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Other People’s Money may be the best revenge
Other People’s Money may be the best revenge.
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What happened to A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 masterpiece, A Raisin in the Sun, is still a potent indictment.
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The Color Purple unbound
The Mercury Theater presents The Color Purple without fashionable cuts.
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A Twelfth Night for the tween set
The Hypocrites offer a Twelfth Night for the tween set.
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Playing Family Feud at Steppenwolf’s First Look
They always hurt the ones they love in Steppenwolf’s First Look repertory.
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Anti-Arab bias is an easy target for satire, but Invasion! misses the mark
Anti-Arab bias is an easy target for satire, but Invasion! misses the mark.
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Ancient myth meets modern economics in Luis Alfaro’s Mojada
Ancient myth meets modern economics in Luis Alfaro’s Mojada.
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Friends recall old crimes in Simpatico
Michael Shannon stars in Simpatico, a death struggle disguised as a comedy.
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Sleeping with the enemy in Belleville
Sleeping with the enemy in Belleville.
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The Jungle Book wars, onstage
Mary Zimmerman’s best answer to her critics is a flawed, defiant Jungle Book.
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Keith Huff’s Big Lake Big City is made for TV
Keith Huff’s Big Lake Big City is made for TV. Unfortunately, it’s a play.