Siah Berlatsky just graduated this month from ChiArts, but though she’s taking a gap year before college, the 18-year-old playwright-director-actor isn’t letting the grass grow under her feet. In August, she’ll be part of Artistic Home’s outdoor developmental series, “Summer on the Patio,” with her Elizabethan-style gender-bending rom-com, Malapert Love, which she also directs. (“Malapert,” […]
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ShawChicago goes out the way it came in, with The Doctor’s Dilemma
The company ends its run with the same play with which it first debuted in 1994.
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Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde is incandescent theater
Jamie Bragg and Heather Smith embody the love that dares to speak its name.
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A new production of An Ideal Husband humanizes Oscar Wilde
Director Holly Robinson’s savvy production of An Ideal Husband relaxes the farce into drawing-room comedy.
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Writers Theatre’s joyful The Importance of Being Earnest has a dreadful spoiler
Just as in Oscar Wilde’s time, there are whispers in the audience.
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The School for Lies, At the Table, and seven more new stage shows to see now
A spritely update of the Molière classic and a revival of Broken Nose Theatre’s hit are among this week’s best bets.
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Bette Davis Ain’t for Sissies, Jacques Brel’s Lonesome Losers . . . , and nine more new stage shows
A one-woman show to buckle up for and an intimate, retro revue are among this week’s best bets.
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Twist Your Dickens, A Klingon Christmas Carol, and nine more new theater and performance reviews
A Second City show at the Goodman and a Star Trek-inspired Dickens adaptation are among this week’s best bets.
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The breathtaking Next to Normal and seven more new stage shows
BoHo Theatre’s production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show is musical theater at its very finest.
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Remy Bumppo Theatre aces Tom Stoppard’s test with Travesties
Remy Bumppo Theatre aces Tom Stoppard’s erudite play Travesties.
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The king is dead—but Lady Macbeth is alive and vibrating with power in Dunsinane
The National Theatre of Scotland returns with Dunsinane, David Greig’s imagined sequel to the Scottish play.
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Down the rabbit hole with the House Theatre’s Dorian
The House Theatre’s Dorian takes us down the rabbit hole—just not far enough.
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There’s just one Lost Generation, but several others are being misplaced
Is journalism “losing a generation” a little too frequently for its own good?
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Chicago shares its stage talent
The Three Oaks Theater Festival, in southwest Michigan, features three celebrated Chicago productions.
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Wartime hijinks, presented with Improbable Frequency
Strawdog Theatre Company presents Improbable Frequency.