Six weeks after my mother died of colon cancer in 2008 (which was almost eight years after my dad died of lung cancer), my sister was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, which would take her life six and a half years later. The day my sister died, my other sister’s mother-in-law fell down the basement stairs […]
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Sinister spinsters
Jen Silverman’s The Moors is a brilliantly executed pastiche of everything from Wuthering Heights (the gloomy insalubrious environs of the title) to Rebecca, complete with a menacing parlor maid/scullery maid named either Marjory or Mallory, and suffering from either an unwanted pregnancy or typhus, depending on what room you catch her in. (Played to perfection […]
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A couple finds themselves in a creepy cabin in the woods in Grey House
Levi Holloway’s horror show for A Red Orchid Theatre gives a feminist makeover to a familiar genre.
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Ionesco’s Killing Game gets too busy with the dying
There’s not enough room in this scattershot world for ideas to deepen.
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Like the absinthe that inspired it, The Ruse of Medusa is an acquired taste
There is nothing like it onstage anywhere else in Chicago.
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Facility Theatre’s mesmerizing Phoebe in Winter is an unlikely success
This astounding production packs a year’s worth of theatergoing into 100 minutes.
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Facility Theatre transforms The Little Match Girl Passion from a vocal piece into a meticulously pitched spectacle
This new theatrical adaptation of David Lang’s Pulitzer-winning choral piece is a lot to take in, but it’s worth it.
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Facility Theatre presents an intricate, complicated Little Match Girl Passion
Composer David Lang and director Dado turns Hans Christian Andersen’s tragic fairy tale into a performance installation.
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Theater Wit’s 10 Out of 12 isn’t about keeping us on the edge of our seats
Anne Washburn’s behind-the-scenes play re-creates the drudgery of a tech rehearsal.
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Too much embellishment obscures the clean lines of Pinter’s The Room
A Red Orchid revives Harold Pinter’s first play, The Room.
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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