Review: TIME IS ON OUR SIDE at About Face Theatre
About Face Theatre’s TIME IS ON OUR SIDE is an ideological treasure trove. The text is rich with questions and examinations of personal history, queer history, and the ownership of each.
Review: CYRANO at BoHo Theatre
In an era when human connection feels increasingly dictated by algorithms, it’s hard to fathom the lengths we used to go to for courtship. For that reason, Edmund Rostand’s classic play CYRANO, in BoHo Theatre’s enchanting production of Michael Hollinger and Aaron Posner’s new adaptation, serves as a welcome contrary to computer-generated romance.
Review: PLANTATION! at Lookingglass Theatre Company
Through the deft writing of extraordinarily talented playwright Kevin Douglas, and buoyed by the light sitcom directing style of David Schwimmer, PLANTATION!, the viciously hilarious comedy at Lookingglass Theatre, succeeds at the impossible.
Review: THE CONDITION OF FEMME at Circle Theatre Chicago
This piece is meant to have a strong feminist message, but a play that leaves me feeling like sexual violence is inevitable, without a call to action or accountability for men, that distills the narratives of religious women, women of color and trans women is neither activism nor feminism.
Review: THE GREEN BOOK at Pegasus Theatre Chicago, in association with ShPIeL Performing Identity
During the height of segregation, a Harlem postal worker by the name of Victor Hugo Green created a booklet called the Negro Motorist Green Book. The Green Book was designed to help traveling Black people find doctors, entertainment, restaurants, and homes for lodging in an effort to avoid areas where they were not welcomed.
Review: MARY STUART at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Friedrich Schiller’s 1800 classic, MARY STUART, given a sharp and gorgeous reimagining by playwright Peter Oswald, director Jenn Thompson, and Chicago Shakespeare Theater, the two opposing monarchs wage a war of words and power that fuels their drive to become the unquestioned sovereign of their nations, no matter the cost.
Review: LA BELLE/SLEEPING BEAUTY by Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo at the Auditorium Theatre
Choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot and the Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo’s production of LA BELLE/ SLEEPING BEAUTY takes the 19th-century ballet by Marius Petipa and with stunning visuals, a soaring score, and exemplary choreography, brings it well into the 21st century.
Review: STEEL MAGNOLIAS at Theatre at the Center
If you want a short excursion out of the city proper, and to get the feel of the Louisiana bayou, head down to Munster, Indiana and see a lovely production of Robert Harling’s classic piece about women, friendship, and good hair: STEEL MAGNOLIAS.
Review: CAM BABY at Chimera Ensemble
The topic of voyeurism and private spaces is a hugely fascinating concept to delve into with the inevitable development of technology.
Review: SOME LIKE IT RED at The Plagiarists
Photo by Joe Mazza | Brave Lux By Aaron Lockman SOME LIKE IT RED begins when three cruise ship musicians, Violet, Rose, and Daisy (Jessica Saxvik, Christina Casano, and Sara Jean McCarthy), run afoul of a thunderstorm and get shipwrecked on the shore of Albania, in the middle of both...