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Home » Robert Falls

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Posted inGhost Light

More changes at the top for Chicago-area theaters

by Kerry Reid September 22, 2021September 24, 2021

Goodman, Congo Square, and Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in Arlington Heights all announce major changes at the top.

Art for The Sound Inside
Posted inArts & Culture

Live at the Goodman offers three views on loss and reinvention

by Melissa Renee Perry May 11, 2021May 19, 2022

Plays by Adam Rapp, Adrienne Kennedy, and Ike Holter make a livestream connection with audiences.

Posted inArts & Culture

Stuart Gordon, legend of off-Loop theater and horror films, dies at 72

by Kerry Reid March 26, 2020August 18, 2021

From Warp! to Re-Animator, Gordon told the stories he wanted to see his way.

Posted inArts & Culture

On a bountiful opera weekend, Chicago Opera Theater climbs a peak

by Deanna Isaacs November 19, 2019August 18, 2021

Chicago Opera Theater’s Everest is stunning contemporary opera.

Posted inArts & Culture

The Winter’s Tale of our discontent

by Irene Hsiao May 22, 2019August 18, 2021

But at least “Exit, pursued by a bear” finally makes sense.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Tired of solicitations from big nonprofits? We have just the solution for you!

by Deanna Isaacs December 21, 2018August 18, 2021

With the Executive Pay Test, it’s easier than ever to decide which group deserves your hard-earned cash!

Posted inArts & Culture

David Cale shares his life story in We’re Only Alive for a Short Amount of Time

by Tony Adler October 3, 2018August 18, 2021

But this Goodman production should best be understood as a reliving than a true memoir.

Posted inArts & Culture

Stacy Keach returns for another go at Hemingway and Pamplona

by Tony Adler July 18, 2018August 18, 2021

He’s fully recovered from the mild heart attack he suffered during last year’s world premiere.

Posted inArts & Culture

The Goodman’s new Enemy of the People gives us a hero we can’t believe in

by Tony Adler March 28, 2018August 18, 2021

This Thomas Stockmann is courageous, tenacious, and a little nuts: a man of our times.

Posted inArts & Culture

Reagan and Gorbachev meet cute atop a pile of nukes in Blind Date

by Tony Adler February 6, 2018August 18, 2021

Gaping conceptual hole aside, the Goodman Theatre staging is entertaining.

Posted inBlogs

Rauner rejects Emanuel’s massive Thompson Center offer, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd June 23, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, Uber CEO Trevor Kalanick was forced to resign in a downtown Chicago hotel Tuesday.

Posted inBlogs

Goodman pulls the plug on Stacy Keach’s opening-night performance of Pamplona

by Deanna Isaacs May 31, 2017August 18, 2021

The star of the solo show, based on Ernest Hemingway, was ill and struggling to perform when director Robert Falls made the decision to call it off.

Posted inArts & Culture

Robert Falls gives the Goodman’s Uncle Vanya all the clarity of his years

by Tony Adler March 1, 2017August 18, 2021

Chekhov’s masterwork gets a master staging.

Posted inArts & Culture

The Goodman savors human decency in Soups, Stews, and Casseroles: 1976

by Tony Adler June 9, 2016August 18, 2021

But ultimately Rebecca Gilman’s play confronts the banality of goodness.

Posted inArts & Culture

The Goodman’s 2666: Epic, eerie, and ultimately unfathomable

by Zac Thompson February 18, 2016August 18, 2021

Roberto Bolaño’s sprawling novel becomes a phantasmagoric five-and-a-half-hour ride.

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