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Home » Arts & Culture » Theater Review » Page 82

Category: Theater Review

Resurrection, cupcake style
Posted inArts & Culture

Cupcakes bring a man back to life in American Wee-Pie

by Tony Adler January 16, 2013August 18, 2021

Lisa Dillman’s American Wee-Pie premieres at Rivendell Theatre Ensemble

Posted inArts & Culture

Everymotherfucker: The Motherfucker With the Hat is about all of us

by Tony Adler January 8, 2013August 18, 2021

Steppenwolf Theatre stages Stephen Adly Guirgis’s The Motherfucker With the Hat

Posted inArts & Culture

Rhinoceros? Imposserous—but true. Rhinofest is back

by Jena Cutie January 8, 2013August 18, 2021

Curious Theatre Branch mounts the 24th annual Rhinofest

Local grouch Jonathan Toomey carves a nativity scene for a lonely little boy in The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey.
Posted inArts & Culture

The ho ho ho show review

by Tony Adler, Keith Griffith, Justin Hayford, Jack Helbig, Dan Jakes, Marissa Oberlander and Zac Thompson November 28, 2012August 19, 2021

Reviews of eight new Christmastime shows

Souls swoon slowly in Court Theatre's James Joyce's "The Dead".
Posted inArts & Culture

It’s the little things you miss about James Joyce’s “The Dead”

by Zac Thompson November 21, 2012August 19, 2021

Court Theatre’s Charles Newell directs James Joyce’s “The Dead”

"Driver, take me to hell!"
Posted inArts & Culture

Hellcab’s home for Christmas

by Tony Adler November 21, 2012August 19, 2021

Profiles Theatre revives Will Kerns Hellcab

The most vivid part of Porn is its (clothed) leading lady
Posted inArts & Culture

What’s pornographic about Porn

by Tony Adler November 14, 2012August 19, 2021

Theatre Y. performs András Visky’s Porn

Eugene O'Neill's Iceman is a masterpiece of excess.
Posted inArts & Culture

Eugene O’Neill’s great joke

by Tony Adler May 9, 2012August 19, 2021

Bleak as it can be, The Iceman Cometh is a comedy at heart

In paramilitary-punk musical The Rise of the Numberless, the kids aren't alright, they're all fight.
Posted inArts & Culture

Revolting babies

by Zac Thompson May 2, 2012August 19, 2021

Bailiwick Chicago and the New Colony coproduce futuristic Rise of the Numberless

Neil LaBute goes all Agatha Christie with In a Forest, Dark and Deep
Posted inArts & Culture

Devices obvious and mechanical

by Justin Hayford April 25, 2012August 19, 2021

Neil LaBute gets Agatha Christie-esque with In a Forest, Dark and Deep

There's graphic sex and graphic violence in Calixto Bieito's and Marc Rosich's Camino Real.
Posted inArts & Culture

Camino to perdition

by Zac Thompson March 13, 2012August 19, 2021

Goodman’s Casino Real: not recommended for the squeamish

Posted inArts & Culture

Hallucinating in Romania

by Justin Hayford December 8, 2011August 19, 2021

Trap Door Theatre stages a play by Romania’s Matei Vişniec

Posted inArts & Culture

Tartuffe Goes to Washington

by Brian Nemtusak February 2, 2006August 19, 2021

Updating Molière is trickier than it looks

Posted inArts & Culture

Kind of a Drag

by Justin Hayford March 6, 2003August 19, 2021

Justin Hayford reviews Doug Wright’s I Am My Own Wife and Alexandra Billings’s Before I Disappear.

Posted inArts & Culture

Dead Aim

by Justin Hayford November 21, 2002August 19, 2021

Justin Hayford reviews Brett Neveu’s 2002 drama Eric LaRue at A Red Orchid Theatre.

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