If you were concerned that Chicago’s storefront theaters lost their mojo during the pandemic, get thee to Terry McCabe’s gripping production of The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter. It’s a meta-accomplishment: not a false note in this version of a play that’s entirely about false notes. Pinter’s breakthrough piece (albeit a flop at the time), […]
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Sundown, Yellow Moon does best in quiet shadows
Raven’s production has heart, but doesn’t fully connect the pieces.
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Noises Off proves that too-frequent gags have diminishing marginal returns
But this Windy City Playhouse production is still good, frothy fun.