Women love true-crime stories—so much so that SNL spoofed the fascination a few years ago with a song about women relaxing alone at home watching their favorite “Murder Show.” Fans of the podcast My Favorite Murder (aka “Murderinos”) are overwhelmingly female. When you’re raised from an early age to think that rape and murder are […]
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Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman is Gorey-meets-Kafka
Gift Theatre brings a dark fable to life.
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The Snare brings faith to Chicago theater without irony
In this Jackalope Theatre production, a midwestern family is plunged into drama after the daughter reveals that “the devil tells me to do things.”
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Baudelaire in a Box: Unquenched, The Burials, and nine more new theater reviews
Highlights this week include episode nine of Theater Oobleck’s stage translation of Les Fleurs du Mal and a Steppenwolf for Young Adults drama by Caitlin Parrish.