Joe Schermoly Archives - Chicago Reader

Five women stand in a line across the stage. The first four women are white, the woman on the far right is Black. The woman in the center is in black Grecian god-warrior garb. The second woman on the left is in contemporary clothes, sitting at her kitchen counter drinking wine. The other three are in flowing gowns and are positioned around the woman in the godlike clothing, looking at her with adoration and moving as if in a ritual dance.

The real Maenads of Monmouth

by Kerry Reid June 29, 2022July 28, 2022

Back in 2014, Theater Wit presented Madeleine George’s acerbic but aching comedy, Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England, in which the denizens of a small New England college town wrestle with the dusty past, as represented by the display of the title creatures in the campus museum—which no one ever visits. George’s play wove in […]

Yen shows two neglected teenagers struggling to grow up

by Dmitry Samarov April 4, 2019August 18, 2021

It starts as grotesque comedy but ends in tragedy.

Joel Reitsma’s star turn in Birdland may be the performance of the season

by Justin Hayford April 11, 2018August 18, 2021

Simon Stephens’s drama captures the decline of a rock star with depth and precision.

Steppenwolf’s Constellations and Voice Lessons, and 13 more new stage shows

by Chicago Reader June 8, 2016August 18, 2021

An endless meet-cute and an off-key farce are among this week’s notables.

Remy Bumppo Theatre aces Tom Stoppard’s test with Travesties

by Tony Adler April 8, 2015August 18, 2021

Remy Bumppo Theatre aces Tom Stoppard’s erudite play Travesties.

The company of Griffin Theatre

This Titanic goes the way of its namesake

by Justin Hayford October 29, 2014August 18, 2021

Without a star—the set—Griffin Theatre Company’s modest version of the Broadway musical Titanic sinks.