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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Susan V. Booth talks about coming home to the Goodman
The past two years have seen more upheavals and changes in leadership at Chicago theaters than at any time in my memory, exacerbated by the long COVID-19 shutdown. So perhaps it makes sense that Goodman Theatre went back to the future, so to speak, by announcing Susan V. Booth as their new artistic director late […]
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The Crowd You’re in With is trapped in 2007, both dramatically and politically
Why do people always turn into sneering jackasses during dinner parties in plays?
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Twilight Bowl takes a close look at overlooked lives
Five women in small-town Wisconsin search for their places in the world.
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Banned Books Week gets entertaining
City Lit Theater’s Books on the Chopping Block pop-up and other local events draw attention to the year’s most challenged works.
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The Goodman savors human decency in Soups, Stews, and Casseroles: 1976
But ultimately Rebecca Gilman’s play confronts the banality of goodness.
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In Rebecca Gilman’s new play, everyone is a community organizer
Soups, Stews, and Casseroles: 1976 is as much about 2016 as it is about the bicentennial.
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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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Fela to Freud to Frontera: fresh Reader performing arts reviews
New performing arts reviews from Reader critics
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4/19 — Free Discussion at Th!nkArt Salon
Tonight from 6:30 to 8:30 PM, Th!inkArt Salon hosts “Paying Attention,” a free discussion on art and social responsibility.
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Dramatists Guild plans “Writer’s Intensive” at Northwestern
The Dramatists Guild Fund, the Dramatists Guild of America, and Northwestern University are teaming up for the Dramatists Guild Writer’s Intensive, a program for emerging playwrights and musical theater writers. The intensive will be held on Northwestern’s Evanston campus next September. Participants will be selected from candidates nominated by a team of Chicago theaters and […]