“When people die, they move from the first person to the third person. They also move from the present tense to the past tense.” These words are spoken by Christine (Kendra Thulin), who opens Simon Stephens’s Light Falls, directed by Robin Witt, by narrating her own death—sudden, solitary, and mundane in a liquor store in […]
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Sandra Bland’s life and death provides the inspiration for graveyard shift
The Goodman’s production is lyrical and heartbreaking.
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In Red Rex, Ike Holter’s Chicago Cycle gets meta
A play about a storefront theater playing in a storefront theater
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Akeelah and the Bee, Die Walküre, and 14 more new stage shows to see
An inspirational kids’ show and a not-be-missed Lyric Opera production are among this week’s best bets.