Annabelle Lee Revak Archives

Two Black men sit at a table. The man on the left holds a bottle of beer, and is in a black T-shirt. The man on the right is in a purple jacket, drinking a clear cocktail, and is gesturing toward the table, as if explaining something.

Farewell to Eclipse and Underscore

by Kerry Reid October 7, 2022October 9, 2022

Covering theater in Chicago is sometimes about writing valedictions for companies that have decided it’s time to fold up the tent. In the past couple of weeks, two such announcements came through. Underscore Theatre announced in late September that they were closing permanently. (During the pandemic, the company gave up their storefront rental space at […]

Four actors in early 20th-century clothing stand in a row, looking at a newspaper headline.

Theater Review

Immigrant song

by Kerry Reid May 19, 2022May 19, 2022

If you’re a fan of Henry Louis Gates’s Finding Your Roots on PBS, then you can probably relate to Annabelle Lee Revak’s impulse to create a musical out of the World War I-era letters of her great-great-grandfather, Joe Loula. As in Gates’s program, the most interesting details in Revak’s Notes & Letters with Underscore Theatre […]