I’ve always been ambivalent about the use of land acknowledgements in the arts sector, but as I am not of Indigenous descent, I can’t speak for Indigenous opinions on the matter. At the world premiere of King James at Steppenwolf, the audience was treated to not only a land acknowledgement, but also to what I […]
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An Iliad returns in a stunning new setting
Court Theatre’s revival puts us in the center of ancient artifacts and contemporary conundrums.
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The current Goodman production demonstrates How to Catch Creation
Christina Anderson’s play is a triumph for director Niegel Smith and his cast.
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Chicago Shakespeare’s midwinter Midsummer Night’s Dream is the most impressive cotton candy you’ll ingest this month
It looks great, but it’s about as substantial as fairy dust.
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There are too many puppets in 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas and not enough action
If the narrated sections are so important, why don’t we get see them?
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Robert Falls gives the Goodman’s Uncle Vanya all the clarity of his years
Chekhov’s masterwork gets a master staging.
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A washed-up pawnbroker destroys the life of a young girl in TUTA’s Gentle
Zeljko Djukic adapts and directs a bleak story by Dostoevsky.
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The Goodman’s Wonderful Town is something less than wonderful
But Leonard Bernstein’s score and lead Bri Sudia soar in a revival of the 1953 musical directed by Mary Zimmerman.
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The Steppenwolf stage is alive for The Night Alive
Conor McPherson’s play The Night Alive may not be great, but it’s superb in its goodness.
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M. Butterfly is a drag all-around
Court Theatre’s M. Butterfly gives us even more reason to dislike this Tony-winning play.
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Everymotherfucker: The Motherfucker With the Hat is about all of us
Steppenwolf Theatre stages Stephen Adly Guirgis’s The Motherfucker With the Hat
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Getting to the meat of Three Sisters
A new adaptation of Three Sisters, written by Tracy Letts and directed by Anna Shapiro
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Steppenwolf Shows Off Scene Shop
Steppenwolf Theatre’s fundraiser takes supporters “Behind the Curtain.”