Jennifer Engstrom Archives

Young Asian woman on left in pink dress, older white woman in maid outfit looming over her on sofa in front of fireplace

Sinister spinsters

by Kerry Reid January 19, 2022January 19, 2022

Jen Silverman’s The Moors is a brilliantly executed pastiche of everything from Wuthering Heights (the gloomy insalubrious environs of the title) to Rebecca, complete with a menacing parlor maid/scullery maid named either Marjory or Mallory, and suffering from either an unwanted pregnancy or typhus, depending on what room you catch her in. (Played to perfection […]

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Theater Review

Bug captures our current malaise

by Kaylen Ralph November 18, 2021November 19, 2021

There was only one weekend left in Steppenwolf’s original production run of Bug when the theater announced it would be closing its doors to prevent the spread of COVID-19 on March 12, 2020. Twenty months later, the company has launched its “comeback” season with a second, complete revival run (once again directed by David Cromer) […]