Lia Mortensen was a great actor. If you saw her in any of the many roles she played at theaters large and small over the past three decades in Chicago, you couldn’t help but be struck by the honesty and intensity of her performances, as well as her luminous physical presence. From the acerbic Joanne […]
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Four Places hovers brilliantly between public pleasantries and private dysfunction
Adult children confront the past and future lives of their aging parents over lunch.
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There’s no mystery in Writers Theatre’s The Mystery of Love and Sex
Instead of answers, Bathsheba Doran’s play offers contrivance.
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Route 66 Theatre’s No Wake has no heft
This domestic tragedy is like Iphigenia in Aulis updated by Neil Simon.