The tragedy of a single elephant’s death has universal implications in Griffin’s production.
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For Services Rendered explores the ongoing trauma of World War I
It also offers a sharp critique of the British political system.
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In The Harvest, Samuel D. Hunter suggests that even fundamentalists are human
The play defeats expectations and shakes its audience up.
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Ghosts of War narrates more than it represents
This adaptation of an Iraq war memoir by a “GI Joe Schmoe” is strangely lifeless.
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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.
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Court Theatre’s Agamemnon, Ibsen’s Ghosts, and ten more new theater reviews
There’s preholiday gloom galore on Chicago stages.
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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.
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Lions and tigers and bears and, uh, butterflies, oh my: new Reader performing arts reviews
Fresh performing arts reviews from Reader critics
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The latest Reader performing arts reviews
Fresh performing arts reviews from Reader critics
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Up close but impersonal at Griffin Theatre
Some things work in Griffin Theatre’s version of Spring Awakening, some don’t