Tag: Vol. 34 No. 46

A dramatic presentation of poems anthologized by the National Association for Poetry Therapy after the September 11 bombings might easily have delivered nothing more than a good 45-minute cry. But Smoke & Mirror Productions rages at the dying of the light in this adaptation by Nick Jones and Peter Anderson. Using movement, baroque music, and […]

The whole trouble with this two-man sketch comedy show is the venue. It needs a more intimate environment, like a basement rec room. The stuff Mike Foster and Josh Zagoren do might seem funnier in a context involving chips, beer, a few friends, beanbag chairs, and the four-disc Star Wars box set. Bits like Zagoren’s […]

Director Dina Facklis and a smart Second City Theatricals ensemble have spared audiences yet another night of done-to-death stories about dating traumas and men’s foibles. Instead four women and Joe Canale–someone has to move furniture–show how a sassy gay friend might have changed the lives of Shakespeare’s ingenues, including Juliet: “You’re 14! Look at your […]

Teatr Cogitatur and the Chopin Theatre conspire to bring the Polish avant-garde to Chicago.

Even good one-acts can’t sustain a three-hour evening, and mostly these aren’t. Buried among Wilson’s cliched writing exercises, presented as overwrought acting exercises by the Eclipse Theatre Company, is the brilliant The Moonshot Tape. CeCe Klinger gives a masterful performance, and Steve Scott directs with the delicacy necessary to address the well-worn subject of sexual […]