A cartoon-inspired staging of the Bard and a creole update of Medea are among this week’s best bets.
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Becky Shaw, Fun Home, and nine more notable new stage shows
A black comedy at Windy City Playhouse and a black musical at Victory Gardens are among this week’s best bets.
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Court Theatre concludes its House of Atreus trilogy with a Hamlet-like Electra
Sandra Marquez and Kate Fry are darkly fascinating as Sophocles’s murderous queen and her obsessed daughter.
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Jackalope’s Prowess, Aguijón’s Adverses, and seven more new stage shows
Ike Holter does it again—and so does Rey Andújar.
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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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At Court Theatre, a fierce, cold, beautiful Iphigenia in Aulis
Euripides’s tragedy shows us both the necessity and the uselessness of action.
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All Our Tragic combines 32 Greek tragedies into a playful 12-hour production
The Hypocrites balance serious fare with a bubblegum-pop sensibility in All Our Tragic.
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Ancient myth meets modern economics in Luis Alfaro’s Mojada
Ancient myth meets modern economics in Luis Alfaro’s Mojada.