Playwright Joseph Zettelmaier is a maker of monsters, a horror artist who retells classic tales with an emphasis on what makes these constructs human. First Folio Theatre, which has produced five of Zettelmaier’s plays in the past (including horror tales The Man-Beast, The Gravedigger, and Dr. Seward’s Dracula, along with two non-horror pieces, Salvage and […]
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The ten shows from 2018 our critics won’t soon forget
Witches, monsters, selkies, cosmic musings and family dramas, and, of course, the Golden Girls
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Manual Cinema’s Frankenstein is technically dazzling and emotionally cold
The latest version of the story presented in Chicago is inflected with bits of Mary Shelley’s personal life.
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A roundup of 15 Halloween shows to thrill and chill you
Explore haunted houses, meet a vampiric rabbit, two Frankensteins, and Freddy Krueger’s hot brother
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Lifeline Theatre’s Frankenstein reduces Mary Shelley’s cosmic struggle to a therapy session
It fails to pay tribute to the big questions raised by the classic novel celebrating its bicentennial this year.
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Chicago celebrates two centuries of Dr. Frankenstein and his monster
Frankenfest brings four stage adaptations of Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece.
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Manual Cinema comes home to debut The End of TV
The shadow puppetry performance collective will be producing a two-week run of the show at the Chopin Theatre.
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Studies in repressed sexuality: Lon Chaney’s The Unknown and Boris Karloff’s The Old Dark House
Two psychologically loaded horror classics return for Halloween.
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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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Grounded, Dogs of Rwanda, and a dozen more new theater reviews
Two solo performances are among this week’s best bets.
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Marnie, The Turin Horse, and other Reader-recommended movies to watch online this week
Reader film capsules guide what you should watch online.
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Weekly Top Five: The best unrealized films
Notable films that never made it to screen
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American Mary, sculptor with a scalpel
The Canadian horror import American Mary spoofs the body-modification cult.
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Quentin Tarantino’s thousand-bullet clip, and the rest of this week’s movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Sunday in the Park With George and midnight with zombies: new performing arts reviews
Fresh reviews from Reader critics