Sarah Sapperstein’s Maggie the Cat commands your attention with her act one monologues in MadKap Productions’s mounting of Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at Skokie Theatre, directed by Steve Scott. Sapperstein’s costars take her energy and roll with it for the entirety of this show, in which a southern family unravels (and […]
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Southern gothic heat
For their inaugural production, Violet Sky Theatre company has chosen Tennessee Williams’s Summer and Smoke from 1948. As is expected with any of Williams’s canonical works, Summer and Smoke is a portrait of the delicious agony of unrequited love. Alma Winemiller, the minister’s daughter, has been in love with John Buchanan, the boy next door, […]
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The Two Character Play gets the context it deserves.
Tennessee Williams’s oft-revised story delivers to arresting effect with Theatre L’Acadie.
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof brings dysfunctional family drama to Drury Lane
It’s a 65th birthday party Big Daddy will never forget.
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John Huston, FilmStruck’s Director of the Week, had a way with actors
FilmStruck “Director of the Week” John Huston always got great performances, from Humphrey Bogart in the 1940s to his daughter Anjelica Huston in the ’80s,
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Raven Theatre can’t deliver on Suddenly Last Summer’s mythic, monstrous potential
Its production of Tennessee Williams’s great lurid story falls flat.
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The Gentleman Caller imagines an early romance between Tennessee Williams and William Inge
Two young playwrights teeter on the precipice of success.
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Novid Parsi’s Through the Elevated Line is a slavish update of a masterpiece
But A Streetcar Named Desire deserves better.
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My Dad Wrote a Porno and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week
Harry Potter Trivia and more goings-on March 5-8.
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This week on Filmstruck: Anna Magnani
Filmstruck revisits the career of Italian actress Anna Magnani, a favorite of Roberto Rossellini, Jean Renoir, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
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Arnie the Doughnut, Tangles and Plaques, and 11 more new stage shows to see
A delightful kids’ show and a Neo-Futurist’s look at dementia are among this week’s best bets.
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Chicago, Lady X: The Musical, and seven more new theater reviews
The hometown return of an iconic show and the tuneful reboot of a camp classic are among this week’s best bets.
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Le Switch, The Mutilated, and nine more new reviews worth your notice
On the off-Loop scene: the latest from local playwright Philip Dawkins, an obscure Tennessee Williams one-act, and a Neil LaBute funfest
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At Steppenwolf’s Garage Rep, failure can spell success
The three productions featured at this year’s Garage Rep do what they’re supposed to: risk failure by thinking big.
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A lot of Claudia Cassidy and somewhat less of everyone else
Chris Jones publishes an anthology of Chicago Tribune theater criticism.