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Home » Jane Eyre

Tag: Jane Eyre

Posted inArts & Culture

Jane Eyre brings a feminist vision to the Joffrey—but only to a point

by Laura Molzahn October 18, 2019August 18, 2021

Cathy Marston’s staging features brilliant duets, but her take on Charlotte Brontë’s classic has some limitations.

Posted inArts & Culture

Parachute Men, You on the Moors Now, and eight more new theater reviews

by Chicago Reader September 22, 2016August 18, 2021

This week’s stage highlights include three losers who (hopefully) make good and four 19th-century fictional heroines battling their would-be betrotheds.

Posted inBlogs

Orson Welles’s five best performances in films he didn’t direct

by Drew Hunt August 9, 2015August 18, 2021

Highlights from Orson Welles’s acting career

Posted inArts & Culture

Jane Austen and musicals are not quite incompatible

by Aimee Levitt May 6, 2015August 18, 2021

Paul Gordon’s adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, making its world premiere at Chicago Shakespeare, wants more sensibility, less sense.

Posted inBlogs

Old Town’s Piper’s Alley screens last shows tonight

by Sallyann Price May 26, 2011August 19, 2021

The AMC-Loews Piper’s Alley movie theater in Old Town will close its doors tonight after one final evening of screenings, set to include Cedar Rapids, I Am, The Conspirator, and Jane Eyre. Word spread via Twitter this morning, and was first reported by Chicagoist, which expounded upon the theater’s closing.

Posted inBlogs

This Week’s Movie Action

by J.R. Jones March 18, 2011August 19, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue.

Posted inFilm

Jane Eyre’s Mystery Man

by J.R. Jones March 17, 2011August 19, 2021

A new screen adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s prefeminist novel reminds us how perplexed Jane was by the male animal.

The Army of Crime
Posted inFilm

European Union Film Festival

by J.R. Jones, Ben Sachs, Andrea Gronvall and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 3, 2011August 19, 2021

Friday, March 4 through Thursday, March 31 at the Gene Siskel Film Center

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