A revamped version of Leonard Bernstein’s operetta and a taut, intense two-hander are among this week’s best bets.
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Chicago theater was true to our times in 2015
Theater Wit’s Bad Jews and the Goodman’s Stop. Reset. are among our senior theater critic’s favorites of the year.
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Director Henry Wishcamper is teaching old Foxes new tricks at the Goodman
Wishcamper explains how to make an old classic feel relevant again.
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Goodman Theatre’s The Little Foxes gives us a woman to rival Lady Macbeth
Lillian Hellman’s prescient midcentury melodrama is a portrait of rapacity.
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The Children’s Hour: Lies, secrets, and silence, revived for the Facebook age
Pride Films and Plays bring back The Children’s Hour, Lillian Hellman’s 1934 drama.
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The story of the diary of Anne Frank
Rinne Groff’s Compulsion tells the tale of a writer whose evangelical zeal for Anne Frank turned to bitter infatuation.
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When Newspapers Screw Up
Every copy editor, when beginning on a new story turned in by a familiar writer, has a preconception of how well written it will be and, more to the point, how accurate. Mary McCarthy once said about Lillian Hellman, “Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the.” If McCarthy had been Hellman’s […]
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Hellman fest on its way
Off-Loop theaters team up to celebrate Lillian Hellman’s work.