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: MERCHANT ON VENICE at Rasaka Theatre Company and Vitalist Theatre of Chicago
MERCHANT ON VENICE has lofty ambitions, attempting to discuss highly controversial topics within a 3-hour arena.
Review: GREAT EXPECTATIONS at Remy Bumppo and Silk Road Rising
Playwright Tanika Gupta finds the right formula to adapt Charles Dickens’ 1861 novel through an Indian perspective.
In Timeline’s A DISAPPEARING NUMBER, Comfort Can Be Found in the Orderly World of Numbers
In this challenging and dividing cultural moment, there can perhaps be no greater longing than the one to make order out of chaos. And that is precisely why the characters in A DISAPPEARING NUMBER are so drawn to mathematics: that universe follows a separate and orderly reality—a reality far more comforting than the one in which these individuals (and the audience members) find themselves. It is a startling and lovely resonance, reinforced by Timeline’s equally lovely production.
‘A’ TRAIN Examines Moral Responsibility in Religion and Criminal Justice System
In their season opener of Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, Eclipse Theatre examines moral responsibility through the lenses of religion and the criminal justice system- two institutions occupied with salvation as much as flawed doctrine. And in this case, neither the Law nor God provides their constituents with a clear path to redemption.