David Cromer’s production for Steppenwolf taps into our current conspiracy-theory culture.
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Act(s) of God provides no justification for its existence
Actor Kareem Bandealy’s playwriting debut overreaches.
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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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Crisis comes to the megachurch in Steppenwolf’s The Christians
Lucas Hnath’s gospel-infused drama addresses religious faith in unconventional form.
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Goodman Theatre’s The Little Foxes gives us a woman to rival Lady Macbeth
Lillian Hellman’s prescient midcentury melodrama is a portrait of rapacity.
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Writers Theatre does The Dance of Death
Conor McPherson calls Strindberg’s tune in a new adapation of The Dance of Death, now at Writers Theatre.
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A homo Hamlet?
Director Michael Halberstam posits a gay Hamlet in his Writers’ Theater production