It is a truth universally acknowledged that it’s actually harder to write a rave review than it is to write a pan. How to communicate the thrill of seeing a show that’s just exactly what it should be without simply saying GO SEE THIS SHOW? Fences Through 8/6: Thu-Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 2:30 and 7:30 […]
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Swinging for the Fences with Monty Cole
In 2016, Monty Cole made his directorial debut in Chicago with Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape at now-defunct Oracle Productions—and what a debut it was. His staging of the story of Yank, a swaggering stoker on a steamship who is ultimately destroyed by a society that sees him only as a brute, brought together a […]
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Ride Share explores the dark side of the gig economy
A former cabbie talks to writer Reginald Edmund about Ride Share at Writers Theatre—and the real-life experiences that inspired it.
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Streaming theater goes beyond Hamilton
The Public Theater, Black Lives, Black Words, and Hell in a Handbag put it all online.
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History resonates through Suzan-Lori Parks’s Civil War drama Father Comes Home From the Wars
The past—especially our legacy of slavery—isn’t dead, it’s not even past.
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An extraordinary life inspires an extraordinary performance at Court Theatre
Man in the Ring takes a swing at the saga of gay boxer Emile Griffith.
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The Misanthrope in black and white
Charles Newell’s production of Moliere’s The Misanthrope sends a confused racial message.
