And director Pam MacKinnon and her Steppenwolf cast give us a masterwork.
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Coming this fall: Indecent and Downstate, two plays with a better-than-even chance of being great
A local debut and a world premiere that just might merit the hype.
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Tracy Letts’s rebellion against the Jeff Awards is suspiciously woke
What motivated the Steppenwolf playwright to give the Jeffs the cold shoulder?
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Le Switch, The Mutilated, and nine more new reviews worth your notice
On the off-Loop scene: the latest from local playwright Philip Dawkins, an obscure Tennessee Williams one-act, and a Neil LaBute funfest
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Steppenwolf’s Domesticated is a battle tooth and claw
Bruce Norris’s dark comedy looks at the aftermath of a political sex scandal.
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Strandline: A play maybe too Irish for its own good
A Red Orchid Theatre’s Strandline may be too Irish for its own good.
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Reader’s Agenda Tue 7/29: Spinal Tap, The Qualms, and Crocodiles
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Tuesday, July 29
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Approach Steppenwolf’s The Qualms without reservations
The Qualms, Bruce Norris’s satire about swingers, inspires no reservations in one Chicago critic.
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What happened to A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 masterpiece, A Raisin in the Sun, is still a potent indictment.
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Why didn’t Bruce Norris play the game?
Producer Scott Rudin drops the Broadway version of Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park
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Clybourne Park gets its Chicago premiere
Bruce Norris’s Pulitzer-winning play revisits Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun
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Culture Vultures
Why a booze-inspired bus stop is refreshing, how burlesque is changing a life, Afrocentric art, and more
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Michael Shannon, Punk Rocker
More on “I’ll Die Tomorrow” star Michael Shannon’s music, theater and film career.