If you were concerned that Chicago’s storefront theaters lost their mojo during the pandemic, get thee to Terry McCabe’s gripping production of The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter. It’s a meta-accomplishment: not a false note in this version of a play that’s entirely about false notes. Pinter’s breakthrough piece (albeit a flop at the time), […]
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Fun Home, Betrayal, Graeme of Thrones, and 12 more new theater reviews
The Broadway musical based on Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel and a Pinter classic are among this week’s best bets.
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Too much embellishment obscures the clean lines of Pinter’s The Room
A Red Orchid revives Harold Pinter’s first play, The Room.
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In The Lobster, if you’re single you might be transformed into an animal
Dogtooth director Yorgos Lanthimos returns with another dark absurdist comedy.
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The screen version of The Last Five Years does Jason Robert Brown’s musical right
Divergent careers tear a marriage apart in Richard LaGravenese’s film.
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Too many of this year’s Rhinofest offerings are too small and too safe
The 25th annual Rhinoceros Theater Festival presents the cozy side of fringe.
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The 25th annual Rhinofest isn’t getting old
Performing kids and a tribute to Jenny Magnus fill Prop Thtr for Rhinofest’s 25th anniversary
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About Face stages The Pride—just in time for Pride
Alexi Kaye Campbell’s The Pride juxtaposes gay couples in London 50 years apart.
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Weekly Top Five: “Violence is not funny”—the best of William Friedkin
Weekly Top Five: William Friedkin films
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Pinter’s The Birthday Party, now free of menace
Steppenwolf Theatre Company stages Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party.
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Weekly Top Five: Roman Polanski films
The best of the controversial Polish director, whose 1979 film Tess screens in a digital print at the Siskel Center this week
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This week’s movies, and the rest of this week’s movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Harold Pinter and the sound of silence
Harold Pinter’s screenplays deepen our understanding of his work.
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Smartphones and Soirees: new performing art reviews
New performing arts reviews from Reader critics from the July 26, 2012 issue