Playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury had too many things in mind when she wrote this play about Mary Seacole, a real-life Jamaican-born healer who improbably served in the 19th-century Crimean War. Drury wanted to tell the story of this indomitable woman who wouldn’t take no for an answer, even from the equally implacable Florence Nightingale. She […]
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AIDS Diva, AACM Great Black Music Ensemble, and more
Gerber/Hart is partnering with the Leather Museum (6418 N. Greenview) for a free screening of AIDS Diva: The Legend of Connie Norman. Connie Norman was a trans woman who advocated for her fellow HIV-positive community in Los Angeles in the late 80s and early 90s. AIDS Diva is a documentary that follows her work, not […]
Mystery in space
Based on the 1961 novel by Stanisław Lem, which spawned two films, Solaris, the play by David Greig, makes its North American premiere in a Griffin Theatre production under Scott Weinstein’s direction. A riveting sci-fi mystery thriller, it opens with a scientist visiting a space station that orbits the ocean planet of Solaris. A crew […]
Mlima’s Tale traces the illegal ivory trade
The tragedy of a single elephant’s death has universal implications in Griffin’s production.
For Services Rendered explores the ongoing trauma of World War I
It also offers a sharp critique of the British political system.
In The Harvest, Samuel D. Hunter suggests that even fundamentalists are human
The play defeats expectations and shakes its audience up.
Ghosts of War narrates more than it represents
This adaptation of an Iraq war memoir by a “GI Joe Schmoe” is strangely lifeless.
Bat Boy: The Musical swoops into town at last
A strong production by Griffin Theatre gives life to the macabre half bat, half boy invented by the Weekly World News.
Court Theatre’s Agamemnon, Ibsen’s Ghosts, and ten more new theater reviews
There’s preholiday gloom galore on Chicago stages.
This Titanic goes the way of its namesake
Without a star—the set—Griffin Theatre Company’s modest version of the Broadway musical Titanic sinks.
Lions and tigers and bears and, uh, butterflies, oh my: new Reader performing arts reviews
Fresh performing arts reviews from Reader critics
The latest Reader performing arts reviews
Fresh performing arts reviews from Reader critics
Up close but impersonal at Griffin Theatre
Some things work in Griffin Theatre’s version of Spring Awakening, some don’t