Ben Veatch Archives - Chicago Reader

Four people are shown seated around a round wooden table. At lower left is a middle-aged man with dark hair, wearing a white shirt and brown sweater vest. At upper left is a younger woman with dark hair, wearing a green school uniform. At upper right is a middle-aged woman in a gray sweater, wearing a cross necklace. At lower right is another young woman with dark braided hair, wearing a top with black-and-white vertical stripes. White bowls with spoons are in front of each of them, and a black stewpot is in the center of the table.

Sisters in arms

by Kerry Reid March 10, 2023March 11, 2023

When it comes to Factory Theater, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Shannon O’Neill’s play The Kelly Girls, about two sisters in Northern Ireland, would be close in tone and spirit to the endearing Northern Irish comedy series Derry Girls. After all, Factory has been providing high-spirited pastiches/parodies that both satirize and celebrate the best […]

Arts & Culture

In Keely and Du, a basement becomes an abortion-rights battleground

by Kerry Reid October 16, 2019August 18, 2021

A pregnant woman seeking an abortion and her Christian captor face off in Jane Martin’s still-relevant 1993 play.

Arts & Culture

Warrior Class examines the toxic effects of long-buried sexual harassment

by Albert Williams October 17, 2018August 18, 2021

Just when you thought you’d recovered from the Kavanaugh hearings. . .