REVIEW | “Nina Simone: Four Women” at Northlight
Very many shows are about Black women, but Northlight Theatre’s production of “Nina Simone: Four Women” is also for Black women.
Review | THE FATHER at Remy Bumppo
This is a family at their wit’s end, frustrated, like Andre, with what they do not understand.
Review | GIRL IN THE RED CORNER at Broken Nose Theatre
Pictured: Kim Boler and Elise Marie Davis. Photo by Austin D. Oie. by Elizabeth Ellis A celebrated chef I used to work for distilled his formula for culinary success down to a few simple steps: Find the best ingredients you can, give them just enough seasoning so that each component shines on...
Review | FORTS: BUILD YOUR OWN ADVENTURE at Filament Theatre
Filament Theatre fulfills its promise of being the place where families come and play yet again in their returning installment of FORTS: BUILD YOUR OWN ADVENTURE.
Review: Shatterd Globe and Theater Wit’s THE REALISTIC JONESES
The unremarkable is hilarious in The Realistic Joneses, a peculiar show that is a co-production between Shattered Globe Theatre and Theater Wit.
Review: MISSED OPPORTUNITIES at The Cuckoo’s Theatre Project
MISSED OPPORTUNITIES does a great job of channeling the rom-com vibe while also dealing with tricky issues.
Review: ST. NICHOLAS at Goodman Theatre
There is a great deal of humor in “St. Nicholas,” a wonderful one-man production starring Brendan Coyle.
Review: BURNING BLUEBEARD at Neo-Futurists
Burning Bluebeard” is a play where the actors play actors from a play who are playing actors from a story, all of which ends tragically in a fire in a theater that was a fire hazard, put on in a current-day theater that is (perhaps ironically) also a fire hazard.
Review | LA RUTA at Steppenwolf
Pictured (front, left to right): Isabella Gerasole (Women of Juarez), Sandra Delgado (Yoli) and Alice da Cunha (Women of Juarez); (rear) Mari Marroquin (Zaide), Cher Álvarez (Brenda), Charín Alvarez (Marisela), Karen Rodriguez (Ivonne) and Laura Crotte (Desamaya). Photo by Michael Brosilow. By Sheri Flanders Named for the bus route that...
Review | HERSHEL AND THE HANNUKAH GOBLINS at Strawdog Theatre Company
HERSCHEL AND THE HANNUKAH GOBLINS is a show that is deeply steeped not only in Eastern-European Jewish folklore, but the humor, heart, and uniquely Jewish wit that pervades that folklore.