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Four actors standing in a window, while a woman in a red dress is held upside down

Five jokes, two hours

by Irene Hsiao December 22, 2021February 23, 2022

For as long as memory serves, the section of 90/94 that passes through downtown Chicago has been under construction without apparent purpose or end. That same incessant will to tear up the very ground upon which we travel from here to there governs The Play That Goes Wrong, written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and […]

Actors dressed in costumes representing the Simpsons, seated in a red car

Theater Review

Back to the future with Mr. Burns

by Kerry Reid September 9, 2021October 28, 2021

Midway through the first act of Anne Washburn’s Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play, one of the characters observes, “People are not competent. Can I just say that? People are not competent.” Given that the character is one of a handful of survivors of a massive string of nuclear meltdowns that have completely shut down America’s […]