This Abbey Theatre import is unexpectedly wonderful.
Author Archives: Catey Sullivan
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Bob Odenkirk returns home to Second City
The Better Call Saul star discusses acting, improv, blood feuds, and the charms of Naperville.
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Cardboard Piano looks for hope and healing in Uganda
Hansol Jung’s drama takes on religious hypocrisy, the lives of child soldiers, and the connections between the personal and political.
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Our Perspective gives Asian Pacific American playwrights a chance to tell their stories
A series of four staged readings aims to make Chicago stages more diverse.
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Here are five theater festivals to help you survive January
Puppets! Storytelling! Social consciousness! Brilliant teens! Rhinofest weirdness!
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The ten shows from 2018 our critics won’t soon forget
Witches, monsters, selkies, cosmic musings and family dramas, and, of course, the Golden Girls
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Chicago Shakespeare’s midwinter Midsummer Night’s Dream is the most impressive cotton candy you’ll ingest this month
It looks great, but it’s about as substantial as fairy dust.
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The holiday miracle that gave Agency Theater Collective its Hellcab cab
The onstage taxi has a dramatic backstory.
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Nasty, Brutish & Short showcases work from the Puppeteers of Color Incubator
“Puppeteers make inanimate things into sentient beings.”
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Ike Holter’s Chicago Cycle rolls on with Rightlynd
In this installment, a young alderwoman learns that doing good is much harder than promising to do good.
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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.