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A white man in a burgundy shirt and gray vest sits left at a table in a bar, across from a Black man in a Cleveland Cavaliers T-shirt and baseball cap
Posted inTheater Review

King James explores basketball and male bonding

by Sheri Flanders March 16, 2022March 21, 2022

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 […]

Posted inArts & Culture

An Iliad returns in a stunning new setting

by Kerry Reid March 6, 2020August 18, 2021

Court Theatre’s revival puts us in the center of ancient artifacts and contemporary conundrums.

Posted inArts & Culture

The current Goodman production demonstrates How to Catch Creation

by Sheri Flanders February 6, 2019August 18, 2021

Christina Anderson’s play is a triumph for director Niegel Smith and his cast.

Posted inArts & Culture

Chicago Shakespeare’s midwinter Midsummer Night’s Dream is the most impressive cotton candy you’ll ingest this month

by Catey Sullivan December 19, 2018August 18, 2021

It looks great, but it’s about as substantial as fairy dust.

Posted inArts & Culture

There are too many puppets in 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas and not enough action

by Max Maller June 6, 2018August 18, 2021

If the narrated sections are so important, why don’t we get see them?

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

A washed-up pawnbroker destroys the life of a young girl in TUTA’s Gentle

by Max Maller February 1, 2017August 18, 2021

Zeljko Djukic adapts and directs a bleak story by Dostoevsky.

Posted inArts & Culture

The Goodman’s Wonderful Town is something less than wonderful

by Justin Hayford September 22, 2016August 18, 2021

But Leonard Bernstein’s score and lead Bri Sudia soar in a revival of the 1953 musical directed by Mary Zimmerman.

Francis Guinan, Tim Hopper, and Helen Sadler
Posted inArts & Culture

The Steppenwolf stage is alive for The Night Alive

by Tony Adler October 1, 2014August 18, 2021

Conor McPherson’s play The Night Alive may not be great, but it’s superb in its goodness.

Aurora Adachi-Winter, Erin Clyne, Sean Fortunato, and Emjoy Gavino
Posted inArts & Culture

M. Butterfly is a drag all-around

by Justin Hayford May 21, 2014August 18, 2021

Court Theatre’s M. Butterfly gives us even more reason to dislike this Tony-winning play.

Posted inArts & Culture

Everymotherfucker: The Motherfucker With the Hat is about all of us

by Tony Adler January 8, 2013August 18, 2021

Steppenwolf Theatre stages Stephen Adly Guirgis’s The Motherfucker With the Hat

The three sisters (and one brother) of Three Sisters
Posted inArts & Culture

Getting to the meat of Three Sisters

by Justin Hayford July 11, 2012August 19, 2021

A new adaptation of Three Sisters, written by Tracy Letts and directed by Anna Shapiro

Posted inBlogs

Steppenwolf Shows Off Scene Shop

by Albert Williams September 16, 2009August 19, 2021

Steppenwolf Theatre’s fundraiser takes supporters “Behind the Curtain.”

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