Welcome to Florence, circa 1485, where the Medicis rule by fear and favors—and where their favorite bad-boy artist, Sandro Botticelli, is about to fuck around (literally) and find out. Canadian playwright/novelist Jordan Tannahill’s Botticelli in the Fire premiered in 2018, before COVID-19, but plague is one of the problems facing Lorenzo De Medici’s Renaissance fiefdom. […]
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Playwright David Adjmi tears the cushions off Three’s Company
3C—get it?—is a dark parody of the old sitcom.
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The Goodman’s Upstairs Concierge is, like, so five years ago
Kristoffer Diaz’s farce The Upstairs Concierge, now playing at the Goodman, is as dumb as it is dated.
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Fashion and two-for-one tix for Steppenwolf’s Marie Antoinette tonight only
Check out Steppenwolf’s Marie Antoinette for half price and/or a free fashion show inspired by the play tonight.
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Steppenwolf’s Marie Antoinette takes the wrong side of the French Revolution
David Adjmi’s teen-queen tragedy is closer to Sofia Coppola’s movie than to Bertolt Brecht.