The two magicians headline the Chicago Magic Lounge this month.
Author Archives: Sheri Flanders
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The current Goodman production demonstrates How to Catch Creation
Christina Anderson’s play is a triumph for director Niegel Smith and his cast.
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Noises Off proves that too-frequent gags have diminishing marginal returns
But this Windy City Playhouse production is still good, frothy fun.
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The Santaland Diaries hilariously exposes the ugly underbelly of the holiday season
Though maybe the script could stand a few updates.
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Familiar finds the pulsing, beating heart of a Zimbabwean-American family in Minnesota
In Danai Gurira’s new play, characters cling to their culture, even as they assimilate into America.
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Writers’s Twelfth Night doesn’t quite achieve greatness, but it’s still good fizzy fun
A compelling cast breathes new life into Shakespeare’s words.
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A failed interrogation into the idea of control, An Oak Tree is instead a benevolent dictatorship
The whole thing unintentionally channels the terrors of the Twilight Zone.
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Surrealistic elements help Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies transcend its sitcom origins
Like the black experience, the show is messy, fun, shocking, and unpredictable.
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American Jornalero introduces us to two groups of men seeking work: Americans and Mexican immigrants
The play wonders, can life for immigrants in America one day be humane?
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Danai Gurira’s Eclipsed is a powerful declaration of hope
Four women band together to survive the Libyan civil war.
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Alexis J. Roston fully inhabits Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill
Congo Square Theatre’s revival paints a vibrant portrait of Billie Holiday.
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Court Theatre’s Radio Golf makes a rousing conclusion to August Wilson’s ‘Century Cycle’
It’s a nail-biting mayoral race—in Pittsburgh.
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Sketch show Black Boy Joy presents a refreshing depiction of young black men
Comics Devin Middleton and Jordan Stafford send up race without pulling punches.
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Anything Goes is too stuck in the past to be at all relevant today
A nostalgia-heavy story about the 1 percent during the Great Depression, Anything Goes is more problematic than fun.
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In The African Company Presents Richard III, black performers wear, and then drop, the mask
Two dueling theater companies debate who owns Shakespeare.