As the single most-produced contemporary playwright in the Goodman Theater’s history, Rebecca Gilman has provided audiences with some truly perceptive, unflinching depictions of life’s varied brutalities. 1999’s Spinning Into Butter took on racism at a small, supposedly progressive liberal arts college. Fourteen years before #MeToo, Boy Gets Girl stunned with its take on the nightmarish […]
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Independently connected: Fefu and Her Friends meet virtually
Maria Irene Fornés’s feminist masterpiece Zooms in to help Season of Concern.
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The Niceties raises the stakes for academic debate
Generational and racial divides light the fuse at Writers Theatre.
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Reagan and Gorbachev meet cute atop a pile of nukes in Blind Date
Gaping conceptual hole aside, the Goodman Theatre staging is entertaining.
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Roz and Ray, Turtle, and eight more new stage shows
A tables-turning HIV drama and a world premiere from Redtwist are among this week’s best bets.
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In Long Day’s Journey Into Night there’s darkness at the end of the tunnel
Eugene O’Neill’s family tragedy Long Day’s Journey Into Night gets a true-to-life staging at Court Theatre.
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Steppenwolf’s Domesticated is a battle tooth and claw
Bruce Norris’s dark comedy looks at the aftermath of a political sex scandal.
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Goodman Theatre helps redeem Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Christopher Durang’s overrated Tony Award winner is a case of absurdism lite.
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Northlight Theatre’s new show confronts America’s problem with race
Bruce Graham’s White Guy on the Bus shows the toxic legacy of slavery.
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Goodman’s Luna Gale is a captivating portrayal of a tough dilemma
Rebecca Gilman’s Luna Gale puts a baby’s fate in the hands of flawed people.
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Playwright Rebecca Gilman’s moral dilemmas
Rebecca Gilman’s Luna Gale shows the humanity behind a battle to determine the fate of an infant.
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But is The Normal Heart good?
TimeLine Theatre gets Larry Kramer’s important The Normal Heart pumping.
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The enduring importance of The Normal Heart
The enduring importance of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart
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Best local actress
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