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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The Nether, The Book of Joseph, and seven more plays to see now
Thought-provoking productions at A Red Orchid and Chicago Shakespeare Theater are among this week’s best bets.
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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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At Chicago Shakespeare, Larry Yando gives us half of a great King Lear
At Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Larry Yando gives us a Lear that’s part brilliant, part overblown.
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Led by the nose in Cyrano de Bergerac
Adapted by Anthony Burgess, Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac takes on a tragic silhouette.
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A homo Hamlet?
Director Michael Halberstam posits a gay Hamlet in his Writers’ Theater production
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Romance meets plain old love in Sarah Ruhl’s Stage Kiss
In Kurt Vonnegut’s delightful 1961 short story “Who Am I This Time?,” a shy, bumbling small-town clerk named Harry Nash transforms into an electrifying lothario whenever he’s onstage at the community theater. Helene plays Stella to his Stanley and falls madly in love with him, but realizes that their onstage passion can be sustained offstage […]