Review: LYSISTRATA JONES at Refuge Theatre Project
LYSISTRATA JONES is like rewatching a 90s sitcom in 2017 and cringing at all the racism and sexist undertones you didn’t remember were there.
Review: DON’T LOOK BACK/MUST LOOK BACK at Pivot Arts
We have our photos taken and are given forms to fill out. I’m surprised at the familiar heat spreading across my face as I realize that one of the forms is exactly that which I filed over a year ago and have been waiting for a response ever since.
Review: Billy Elliot at Porchlight Music Theatre
Porchlight’s production may not be perfect but it doesn’t need to be to be outstanding.
Review: A SWELL IN THE GROUND at The Gift Theatre
It all but goes without saying that the first decade after the traditional four-year college experience is fraught with difficult transitions, both emotional and physical. It’s when you determine which of your undergrad soulmates will actually remain in your life post-diploma.
Review: CARRIE 2 at Underscore Theatre Company
The atmosphere Underscore creates is so authentically 90s that when one of the main characters brandished a Nirvana tee and tied a flannel shirt around her waist, the audience sighed and laughed in a moment of collective nostalgia.
Review: HARD TIMES FOR THESE TIMES at Lookingglass Theatre Company
The fact that poor people are dying is relatable to 2017. But that’s not what this story is about. It’s a drawing room play. But what are we gaining by telling this story? In empathy? In truth?
Review: PUNK at The New Colony
If it weren’t enough that this show captures all the essential issues of the American prison-industrial complex and condenses them into a two-and-a-half-hour dramady, the acting that has to back up the content is absolutely stellar.
Review: TWO MILE HOLLOW at First Floor Theater
Waves gently come ashore, the seagulls chirp, and white privilege is heartwarming for the Donnellys as they come together at TWO MILE HOLLOW.
Review: DRACULA — The Hypocrites at Mercury Theater Chicago
Bram Stoker might not have intended for his novel to be funny, but undoubtedly he would have approved of The Hypocrites’ approach to DRACULA.
Review: “anything and always” at Coffee & Whiskey Productions
Pictured: Michelle Alejandra Limon and Wesley James. Photo courtesy of Coffee & Whiskey Productions. By Bec Willett She tells us her name is Victoria and that at the age of only 30 she was diagnosed with breast cancer. In a brief prelude to the play, she has been invited to...