THE SIGN IN SIDNEY BRUSTEIN’S WINDOW is Life Purging its Imperfections
Men with big dreams, women fighting for visibility and love at the same time, while ignorance and bigotry divide people; though this sounds like the ingredients to contemporary mayhem, its roots are found in a play set in the 1960s.
CHIMERICA—a Story for Today, Tomorrow, and Generations to Come
The relationship between America and China is complicated, and in a political season where China’s economic power is a constant talking point, Timeline’s production of CHIMERICA seems as timely as it is mentally exhausting.
Albany Park Theatre Project’s FEAST Makes Television Debut
Albany Park Theatre Project makes its television debut with their production of FEAST on WTTW.
Red Orchid Extends Ike Holter’s SENDER
A Red Orchid Theatre will add six performances to the run of the world premiere of SENDER by Ike Holter, directed by Ensemble Member Shade Murray. Our Tonika Todorova says SENDER is “a hot summer plate of Chicago-hipster-rooftop-realness strewn with beer cans and honesty, lost in its desire to reject...
Sleek CHICAGO Has Plenty of Polish But Lacks Grit
The national tour of CHICAGO that arrived at Broadway In Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre Tuesday night has glimmers of the shine and glitz at the heart of this musical about Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly’s ruthless journey towards fame and notoriety—timely themes that have allowed the current Broadway revival to play on for two decades.